THIS WEEK IN NEUROLOGY:

Highlights of the February 5 issue
Neurology 2008 70: 413. [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITORIALS:

John T. Kissel

Polymyositis: Not a unicorn or mythological beast...but maybe a duck?
Neurology 2008 70: 414-415. [Full Text] [PDF]  

W. T. Longstreth, Jr and S. E. Vermeer

The growing specter of MRI-defined brain infarcts
Neurology 2008 70: 416-417. [Full Text] [PDF]  

SPECIAL ARTICLE:

David J. Thurman, Judy A. Stevens, and Jaya K. Rao

Practice Parameter: Assessing patients in a neurology practice for risk of falls (an evidence-based review): Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology
Neurology 2008 70: 473-479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Data Supplement] [Podcast]  

ARTICLES:

Nizar Chahin and Andrew G. Engel

Correlation of muscle biopsy, clinical course, and outcome in PM and sporadic IBM
Neurology 2008 70: 418-424. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Prabhakaran, C. B. Wright, M. Yoshita, R. Delapaz, T. Brown, C. DeCarli, and R. L. Sacco

Prevalence and determinants of subclinical brain infarction: The Northern Manhattan Study
Neurology 2008 70: 425-430. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Y. Sakai, C. Dobson, M. Diksic, M. Aubé, and E. Hamel

Sumatriptan normalizes the migraine attack-related increase in brain serotonin synthesis
Neurology 2008 70: 431-439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Data Supplement]  

M. A. Reger, G. S. Watson, P. S. Green, C. W. Wilkinson, L. D. Baker, B. Cholerton, M. A. Fishel, S. R. Plymate, J.C.S. Breitner, W. DeGroodt, P. Mehta, and S. Craft

Intranasal insulin improves cognition and modulates β-amyloid in early AD
Neurology 2008 70: 440-448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

H. -A. Kim, J. -H. Hong, H. Lee, H. -A. Yi, S. -R. Lee, S. -Y. Lee, B. -C. Jang, B. -H. Ahn, and R. W. Baloh

Otolith dysfunction in vestibular neuritis: Recovery pattern and a predictor of symptom recovery
Neurology 2008 70: 449-453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

K. P. Weber, S. T. Aw, M. J. Todd, L. A. McGarvie, I. S. Curthoys, and G. M. Halmagyi

Head impulse test in unilateral vestibular loss: Vestibulo-ocular reflex and catch-up saccades
Neurology 2008 70: 454-463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Data Supplement]  

Miriam S. Welgampola, Oluwaseun A. Myrie, Lloyd B. Minor, and John P. Carey

Vestibular-evoked myogenic potential thresholds normalize on plugging superior canal dehiscence
Neurology 2008 70: 464-472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

MEDICAL HYPOTHESIS:

M. Kox, J. C. Pompe, P. Pickkers, C. W. Hoedemaekers, A. B. van Vugt, and J. G. van der Hoeven

Increased vagal tone accounts for the observed immune paralysis in patients with traumatic brain injury
Neurology 2008 70: 480-485. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

CLINICAL/SCIENTIFIC NOTES:

Andrew G. Herzog, Kristen M. Fowler For the NIH Progesterone Trial Study Group

SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CATAMENIAL SEIZURE PATTERNS AND OVULATION
Neurology 2008 70: 486-487. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph H. Friedman, Melissa M. Amick, and Kelvin L. Chou

RHINORRHEA AND OLFACTION IN PARKINSON DISEASE
Neurology 2008 70: 487-489. [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEUROIMAGES:

D. Q. Ngo, Willem Jan van Rooij, and Cees Tijssen

Rapidly growing traumatic cerebral aneurysm with early subarachnoid hemorrhage
Neurology 2008 70: 490. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION:

Michael Chen and Thanh Nguyen

Emerging Subspecialties in Neurology: Endovascular surgical neuroradiology
Neurology 2008 70: e21-e24. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fredy J. Revilla, Rafael de la Cruz, Nancy Khardori, and Alberto J. Espay

Teaching NeuroImage: Oculomasticatory myorhythmia: Pathognomonic phenomenology of Whipple disease
Neurology 2008 70: e25. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

P. De Bonis, F. Novegno, G. Tamburrini, C. Anile, A. Pompucci, and A. Mangiola

Teaching NeuroImage: Prepontine-suprasellar arachnoid cyst presenting with signs of normal pressure hydrocephalus
Neurology 2008 70: e26. [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

CORRESPONDENCE:

Laurence J.M.M. Mulder, Egilius L.H. Spierings, Magne G. Bøe, Åse Mygland, and Rolf Salvesen

PREDNISOLONE DOES NOT REDUCE WITHDRAWAL HEADACHE: A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY
Neurology 2008 70: 491. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc C. Chamberlain, Sajeel Chowdhary, William W. Seeley, Francisco M. Marty, Lindsay R. Baden, and Edward B. Bromfield

POST-TRANSPLANT ACUTE LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS: CLINICAL FEATURES AND RELATIONSHIP TO HHV6
Neurology 2008 70: 491-493. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DEPARTMENTS:

Gena R. Ghearing

THE JOHNS HOPKINS ATLAS OF DIGITAL EEG: AN INTERACTIVE TRAINING GUIDE
Neurology 2008 70: 494. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Calendar
Neurology 2008 70: 495-496. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert J. Joynt

Changes · People · Comments
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