Neurology Updates

Up to 20% of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) develop impulse control behaviours (ICBs) on dopaminergic therapy, particularly on dopamine…

Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa.…

To date there is no electrophysiological gold standard in defining the subtypes of GBS. Recovery of abnormal CMAP amplitude reduction and of…

Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) allow to obtain functional and localising information about the dorsal somatosensory system. SEPs are…

Epilepsies affect around 65 million people worldwide and are clinically a heterogeneous group of neurological disorders. Despite strong evidence for…

A subset of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients experience post-concussion symptoms. When a cluster of post-concussion symptoms persists for…

Pure autonomic failure (PAF) is both, a rare condition and a pathogenetic mystery, first described by Bradbury and Eggleston in 1925, as a syndrome…

The use of tracheostomy with invasive ventilation (TIV) for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is challenging and raises the most delicate questions…

Despite its large use, recommendations for the use of brain F-18 FDG-PET in clinical practice were still lacking. The European Academy of Neurology…

Among the different environmental variables that may play a role in the pathogenesis of MS, the influence of the microorganisms living in or on the…

Functional gastrointestinal disturbances affect the vast majority of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients before appearance of the cardinal motor…

Differential diagnosis of tremor syndromes is challenging task for neurologists. The need of a new classification scheme arises from recent…