Neurology Updates

Good diagnostic performance of MDS-MSA criteria against neuropathological diagnosis.

Several viral exposures were recently associated with the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, with the greatest effect association observed between…

Deep intronic GAA-expansions in the FGF14 gene have been recently identified as a common cause of late onset cerebellar ataxia, a disease entity that…

A large study on 147 patients with antibody negative autoimmune encephalitis defines long term outcome and provides important clues on treatment…

Two recent randomized clinical trials showed that thrombectomy is beneficial for patients with stroke with basilar artery occlusion among patients…

A large retrospective community-based cohort study showed a modest risk for ipsilateral stroke in patients with moderate asymptomatic carotid stenosis

The loss of function of the glymphatic system can be one of the leading causes of the neurological sequelae developing after bacterial meningitis.

Disorders of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) are common and disabling. A previous survey by the European Federation of Neurological Societies aimed…

Thermoregulatory abnormalities are known to occur in demyelinating disorders, yet they are poorly studied (Adamec et al 2018). While a few studies…

Since 2020, the world has been facing the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The range of symptoms associated to a SARS-CoV-2 infection…

Arbab et al. (2023) showed for the first time the feasibility of genome editing as permanently restoring SMN protein levels in cellular and animal…

A GAA repeat expansion in FGF14 appears to be an important and frequent cause of autosomal dominant late-onset cerebellar ataxia, further expanding…