Sextus Empiricus (about AD 200) is credited1 with being the first person to use the word “aphasia”, albeit in a philosophical sense. Carl Wernicke's studies on aphasia, published from 1874, are among ...

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 ...

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP)'s ambition is to publish the most ground-breaking and cutting-edge research from around the world. Encompassing the entire genre of ...

Parkinson’s disease seems to occur more commonly in men than women based primarily on studies of death rates and prevalence. In recent years, several population based incidence studies of Parkinson’s ...

Background There is limited data on predictors of symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage (sICH) in patients who underwent mechanical thrombectomy. In this study, we aim to determine those predictors ...

A 22 year old woman with recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus presented with subacute progressive areflexic paraparesis, electrophysiologically identified as a pure axonal polyradiculopathy ...

Background: The two most common types of acquired reading disorder resulting from damage to the territory of the dominant posterior cerebral artery are hemianopic and pure alexia. Patients with ...

Objective To elucidate the common and distinct clinical features of immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), also known as necrotising autoimmune myopathy associated with autoantibodies against ...

Functional neurological disorders (FNDs) are a common cause of neurology consultations.1 Dissociative seizures, motor and cognitive disorders are the main phenotypes. Diagnosis is made on positive ...

Background The link between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and dementia risk is poorly understood, with conflicting evidence on the role of LDL-C and the impact of statin therapy ...

Bell’s palsy is an idiopathic facial palsy of the peripheral type. A herpes virus is the most likely mechanism. We report a patient with the often encountered combination of a facial palsy with ...

Background: Little is known about the long term prognosis for patients the severe acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) form of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), unlike those with acute inflammatory ...