Benign positional vertigo (BPV) is the most frequent cause of vertigo seen in office practice, with a lifetime incidence of at least 8%.1 While most patients give a diagnostic history—brief spinning ...

Objective First, to determine the sensitivity and specificity of six stroke recognition scores in a single cohort to improve interscore comparability. Second, to test four stroke severity scores ...

Biography Dr Lucy Vanes is a lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology at the Department of Neuroimaging, King’s College London. She completed her PhD in 2017, studying the neural correlates of ...

Background Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities due to oedema (ARIA-E) or haemosiderin deposits (ARIA-H) have been associated with the use of monoclonal antibodies, such as lecanemab, for the ...

Background Evidence of best practice for long term physical activity Huntington’s disease (HD) is lacking, due in part, to inherent challenges in the delivery and evaluation of such life-style ...

Background Benign multiple sclerosis (MS), characterised by minimal disability despite long disease duration, remains poorly understood in terms of its determinants and prognostic implications. While ...

Background Functional (psychogenic) motor symptoms are commonly encountered in clinical neurology. Physiotherapy has face validity as a treatment for such symptoms and, anecdotally, referral of ...

Four cases of toxic polyneuropathy due to glue-sniffing were reported. Neurological examination revealed motor predominant mixed type polyneuropathy. The cause of polyneuropathies in these cases was ...

Introduction Motor neuron disease (MND) is the third commonest adult onset neurodegenerative disorder, with an annual incidence of two per 100 000 and prevalence of five to seven per 100 000. 1 MND ...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is an effective neurosurgical treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Surgical accuracy is a critical determinant to achieve an adequate DBS ...

Seven patients with subdural empyema were initially treated by antibiotics without surgery. Six have recovered without sequelae. One required delayed surgery and has recovered with epilepsy. The ...

Background There is some evidence that using ultrasound (USS)-guidance reduces the number of lumbar puncture (LP) failures and improves the ease of the procedure in obese patients. We have begun to ...