Neurology Updates

The following updates were focused specifically on clinically relevant neuroimaging studies in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in migraine…

In 2015 acute stroke therapy has taken an important step forward with a series of trials which have shown a better functional outcome of patients with…

The Palliative Care Scientific Panel aims to encourage the development of palliative care for people with neurological disease.  There are increasing…

Isolated ocular myasthenia gravis is often a diagnostic challenge, as most common ancillary tests, such as acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies and…

Brivaracetam was approved for adjunctive treatment of partial epilepsy with focal and secondary generalised seizures by the EMEA in January 2016.…

In this work the therapeutic value of a diaphragm pacemaker  is examined on a trial in patients with amyothropic lateral sclerosis. Patients underwent…

The current diagnostic criteria for ALS, the El Escorial Criteria, have met with criticism by the community (Agosta F, Al-Chalabi A, Filippi M, Hardim…

The use of statins in neurocardiovascular conditions has widely increased over the decades. Based on extension of indications major side effects of…

In the last decade, patients clinically diagnosed in the vegetative state who are able to perform mental imagery tasks [1-2] have been still…

Advances in understanding memory mechanisms have crucial implications for cognitive neurology, and it is very good news that current studies combining…

Searching for early biomarkers for alpha synucleinopathies, a recent study by Drahms et al. revealed that cardiac/vascular dysfunction in prodromal…

Syncope is a frequent clinical presentation in neurology departments. This clinical event, situated at the border between neurology and cardiology, is…