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Objectives This longitudinal study compared emerging plasma biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease between controls, patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD), frontotemporal ...
A 44-year-old, post-transplant female, presented with urosepsis and raised tacrolimus level. She developed focal motor seizures. She suffered long-standing type-1 diabetes, developing end-stage renal ...
An increasing number of highly effective disease-modifying therapies for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have recently gained marketing approval. While the beneficial effects of these drugs in ...
Background ER2001 is a genetic circuit (plasmid) encoding both a neuron-targeting rabies virus glycoprotein (RVG) tag and an HTT siRNA. This circuit is able to reprogram liver cells to transcribe and ...
Anxiety is an adaptive response that promotes harm avoidance, but at the same time excessive anxiety constitutes the most common psychiatric complaint. Moreover, current treatments for anxiety—both ...
Correspondence to Dr Tomoyuki Ohara, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; ohara.tomoyuki.287{at}m.kyushu-u.ac.jp Objective To ...
Ten male alcoholics aged 38-72 years with clear clinical and electroneurographical signs of peripheral neuropathy were re-examined three to five years later. Conduction velocities, latencies and nerve ...
Background Effectiveness of disease-modifying treatment (DMT) in people affected by primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) is limited. Whether specific subgroups may benefit more from DMT in a ...
Correspondence to Dr Toshiharu Ninomiya, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan; nino ...
Objective The Tysabri Observational Programme (TOP), which began >10 years ago, is an open-label, multinational, prospective observational study evaluating the long-term safety and effectiveness of ...
Background Crossed cerebellar diaschisis is the unilateral depression in functional activity of the cerebel- lar hemisphere, caused by a controlateral supratentorial lesion. The phenomenon arises from ...
Objective Impairment of mental well-being (anxiety, depression, stress) is common among people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). Treatment options are limited, particularly for anxiety. The aim of this ...