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Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

1 Department of Psychiatry, ARKIN Mental Health Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 EMGO institute LASA, VU ...
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Brain tumours: incidence, survival, and aetiology

Correspondence to: Dr Patricia A McKinney Paediatric Epidemiology Group, Unit of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, University of Leeds, 32 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LN, UK; ...
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Applications of positron emission tomography (PET) in neurology

MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Division of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Piccini MRC Cyclotron Building, Imperial ...
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Impulse conduction in multiple sclerosis: a theoretical basis for modification by temperature and pharmacological agents

Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois 60612, U.S.A. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rush Medical College, Chicago ...
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FM1-7 Cranio-cervical instability in ehlers-danlos syndrome employing upright, dynamic MR imaging; a comparative study

Objectives Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a hereditary connective tissue disorder leading to hypemobile joints including the craniocervical junction. Neck pain is a prominent feature. Structural ...
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The vestibulo-ocular reflexes during head impulse in Wernicke’s encephalopathy

Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea Dr Ji Soo Kim, Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Seoul National ...
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Brain neuronal and glial damage during acute COVID-19 infection in absence of clinical neurological manifestations

Correspondence to Prof Nicola De Stefano, Centre of Precision and Translation Medicine, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, 53100, Italy; ...
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Prevalence of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: impact of different definitions – the Tromsø Study

Correspondence to Liv-Hege Johnsen, Department of Radiology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromso, Norway; liv.hege.johnsen{at}gmail.com Background Management of incidental unruptured ...
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Pallidal deep brain stimulation in primary Meige syndrome: clinical outcomes and psychiatric features

Objectives To study the efficacy and safety of bilateral globus pallidus internus deep brain stimulation (GPi-DBS) in refractory Meige syndrome (MS) and evaluate the psychiatric disorders before and ...
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THUR 120 Postprandial hypotension in MSA and PD with autonomic failure

Introduction Postprandial hypotension is often reported in Parkinson’s disease with autonomic failure (PD+AF) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). However there has been no study directly comparing this ...
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The association between delays in screening for and assessing dysphagia after acute stroke, and the risk of stroke-associated pneumonia

1 Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK 2 Stroke and Vascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic ...
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The seven minute screen: a neurocognitive screening test highly sensitive to various types of dementia

1 Departments of Clinical Geriatrics and Medical Psychology, General Hospital Slotervaart, Slotervaart, Netherlands 2 Departments of Neurology and Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of ...