Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry articles from April 2004

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry archives from April 2004

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adulthood: attention deficit disorder may persist into adult life and have a genetic basis.(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... A behavioural syndrome of childhood characterised by overactivity, excitability, and explosive behaviour has been recognised since the turn of the last century and is now thought to be, at certain ages, the most common disorder of childhood....

The MS symptom and impact diary (MSSID): psychometric evaluation of a new instrument to measure the day to day impact of multiple sclerosis; A welcome addition to the toolkit of those who work with multiple sclerosis.(Editorial Commentaries)
April 1, 2004... It is a truism that multiple sclerosis is not only the most common of the neurodegenerative diseases but also the most variable in presentation and course. This is not only true of the relapsing-remitting form of the disease, where it is...

Grey hair and grey matter: could treating memory disorders prevent dementia?(Editorial Commentaries)
April 1, 2004... Memory complaints are very common in elderly people. In 1958 Kral (1) had already introduced the terms "benign and malignant senescent forgetfulness," attempting to differentiate between "normal" and pathological decline in memory performance...

Recommendations for CSF analysis in subarachnoid haemorrhage: spectrophotometry of CSF involving bilirubin quantitation is the recommended method of analysis.(Editorial Commentaries)
April 1, 2004... In this journal in the late 1980s, two papers presented contrasting advice about the appropriate investigation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage when computed tomography (CT) of the head revealed no evidence...

Functional genomics and proteomics: application in neurosciences.(Neuroscience for Neurologists)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:529-538. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.026260 The sequencing of the complete genome for many organisms, including man, has opened the door to the systematic understanding of how complex structures such as...

Inhibition of ongoing responses in patients with Parkinson's disease.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:539-544 Objectives: We investigated the involvement of the basal ganglia in inhibiting ongoing responses in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods: Thirty two patients with PD and 31...

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) and the synapse.(Historical Note)(Biography)
April 1, 2004... Fulton compared Sherrington's The integrative action of the nervous system to Harvey's De Motu Cordis, while Walshe compared it to Newton's Principia. It is rare for great scholars to proffer such encomiums. In 1893 Sherrington had...

The L-dopa response in vascular parkinsonism.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:545-547. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018309 Objective: To determine whether a positive L-dopa response in vascular parkinsonism (VP) is correlated with the presence of nigrostriatal pathology due to...

Hippocampal size and memory function in the ninth and tenth decades of life: the Sydney Older Persons Study.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:548-554. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.010223 Objectives: The purpose of this study was to define magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) correlates of normal brain ageing, with the specific objective of...

Motor cortex hyperexcitability to transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer's disease.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:555-559. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018127 Objectives: Recent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies demonstrate that motor cortex excitability is increased in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and that...

Scalp metastasis from glioblastoma.(Neurological Picture)
April 1, 2004... A 60 year old male who had previously undergone a craniotomy and debulking of a glioblastoma multiforme re-presented with several subcutaneous nodules in his scalp. He had undergone a course of radiotherapy, and it had been one year since his...

Cognitive impairment and functional outcome after stroke associated with small vessel disease.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:560-566. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.015107 Objectives: Although stroke associated with small vessel disease (SSVD) can induce both motor and cognitive impairment, the latter has received less attention....

Stroke in Devon: knowledge was good, but action was poor.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:567-571. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018382 Background and aim: Effective implementation of early treatment strategies for stroke requires prompt admission to hospital. There are several reasons for...

Latitudinal variation in the prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Ireland, an effect of genetic diversity.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:572-576. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.012666 Background: Northern Ireland has a high and rising prevalence rate of multiple sclerosis (MS). The most recent survey in 1996 found a rate of 168.7/100 000....

The MS Symptom and Impact Diary (MSSID): psychometric evaluation of a new instrument to measure the day to day impact of multiple sclerosis.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:577-582. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020529 Objectives: This study aimed to develop further a diary originally devised to measure the impact of multiple sclerosis (MS) as part of a cost utility study of...

Lluis Barraquer i Roviralta and the origins of torsion dystonia.(Historical Note)
April 1, 2004... Idiopathic torsion dystonia has the synonyms of dysbasia lordotica progressiva, dystonia lenticularis, dystonia musculorum deformans, and progressive torsion spasm. Standard references suggest the first description was that of Marcus Walter...

Cognitive changes after epilepsy surgery in the posterior cortex.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:583-587. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.014746 Objective: The relationship between the posterior cortex and cognitive functions is still a relatively open field. There are no studies on populations in which...

Patients with extratemporal lobe epilepsy do not differ from healthy subjects with respect to subcortical volumes.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:588-592. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.018721 Background: Evidence from previous volumetric magnetic resonance studies has revealed that patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy show atrophy of distinct...

Emotional memory and perception in temporal lobectomy patients with amygdala damage.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:593-599. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2002.006403 Background: The human amygdala is implicated in the formation of emotional memories and the perception of emotional stimuli--particularly fear--across various...

Intravenous immunoglobulins may have role in vasculitic neuropathy.(Echo)
April 1, 2004... Intravenous immunoglobulins may be beneficial in vasculitic peripheral neuropathy, especially in acute multisystem diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjogren's syndrome. Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulins may be...

Neuropsychological effects associated with temporal lobectomy and amygdalohippocampectomy depending on Wada test failure.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:600-607. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020248 Objective: To compare the neuropsychological effects of temporal lobectomy (TL) and amygdalohippocampectomy (AH), depending on whether the patients had passed...

Reliability of self-reported diagnoses in patients with neurologically unexplained symptoms.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:608-611. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020552 Background: Patients with neurologically unexplained symptoms (NUS) often have a previous history of other medically unexplained symptoms. A past history of...

Neurogenic pain relief by repetitive transcranial magnetic cortical stimulation depends on the origin and the site of pain.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:612-616. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.022236 Objective: Drug resistant neurogenic pain can be relieved by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the motor cortex. This study was designed to...

Email triage of new neurological outpatient referrals from general practice.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:617-620. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.024489 Objectives: To determine whether an email triage system between general practitioners and a neurologist for new outpatient referrals is feasible, acceptable,...

MR venography in idiopathic intracranial hypertension: unappreciated and misunderstood.(Paper)(magnetic resonance)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:621-625. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.021006 Background: Venous sinus disease must be excluded before diagnosing idiopathic intracranial hypertension but is found only rarely in typical cases. Magnetic...

Neurosciences on the internet: www.neuroguide.com.(Neuronline)
April 1, 2004... Neurosciences on the internet is a large and well established database of URLs, titles, and keywords of resources available on the internet that are likely to be of interest not only to neuroscientists but also to clinicians, patients, and...

Progressive auditory neuropathy in patients with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.(Paper)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:626-630. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.017673 Objective: To investigate auditory neural involvement in patients with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). Methods: Auditory assessment was...

Concurrent hereditary haemochromatosis and idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a case report series.(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:631-633. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.027441 Hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) is a genetic disorder in which abnormal iron handling leads to excessive iron accumulation in systemic tissues. Magnetic...

Increased systemic levels of norsalsolinol derivatives are induced by levodopa treatment and do not represent biological markers of Parkinson's disease.(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:634-636. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.010769 Endogenously synthesised norsalsolinol derivatives are elevated in Parkinson's disease (PD) and have been considered potentially useful biological markers of...

Are men at greater risk for Parkinson's disease than women?(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:637-639. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020982 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...

Religiosity is associated with hippocampal but not amygdala volumes in patients with refractory epilepsy.(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:640-642. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.06973 Objective: To assess the relationship between the behavioural triad of hyper-religiosity, hypergraphia and hyposexuality in epilepsy, and volumes of the mesial...

Brain tissue loss occurs after suppression of enhancement in patients with multiple sclerosis treated with autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:643-644 To assess whether brain tissue loss occurs after profound and sustained suppression of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enhancement, we measured brain volume changes from 10 patients with...

Percutaneous radiological gastrostomy: a safe and effective method of nutritional tube placement in advanced ALS.(Short Report)(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:645-647. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.020347 Background: Enteral nutrition may be required in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and is usually achieved by percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG). As...

Facial expression recognition and subthalamic nucleus stimulation.(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:648-650. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.019794 Background: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) improves motor signs in Parkinson's disease. However, clinical studies suggest that...

Reversible corpus callosum lesion in legionnaires' disease.(Short Report)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:651-654. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.015669 Legionnaires' disease is often associated with neurological findings. Despite such findings, computed tomography and neuropathological investigations are...

Late onset MLD with normal nerve conduction associated with two novel missense mutations in the ASA gene.(Short Report)(Metachromatic leukodystrophy)(arylsulphatase)
April 1, 2004... J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:655-657. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.017400 Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) rarely has its clinical onset in young adults, with a combination of cognitive and behavioural symptoms and peripheral...

Intracranial hypotension caused by traumatic intrasacral meningocele.(Letters)
April 1, 2004... Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage is known to cause orthostatic headache. Spontaneous CSF leakage occurs under several conditions, such as lumbar puncture, spinal surgery, and fracture of the spine. Intrasacral meningocele is an anomaly...

Transient ischaemic attack preceding anterior circulation infarction is independently associated with favourable outcome.(Letters)
April 1, 2004... Experimental studies in various animal models have provided evidence that short episodes of global or focal ischaemia partially protect the brain against subsequent ischaemic damage. The term "ischaemic tolerance" has been established for...

Multiple cranial neuropathy and HIV-2.(Letters)
April 1, 2004... The peripheral nervous system is frequently involved in different stages of HIV-1 infection. Cranial neuropathies have already been described in HIV-1 patients, but never in HIV-2 patients. We describe the first case of multiple cranial...

Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity associated with anti-amphiphysin antibodies.(Letters)
April 1, 2004... Progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity (PER) is a rare disorder of unknown aetiology, characterised by muscular rigidity, abnormal postures, painful muscle spasms, and myoclonus, and is caused by inflammation in the brainstem or spinal...

Central pontine myelinolysis associated with hypokalaemia in anorexia nervosa.(Correspondence)
April 1, 2004... I read with interest the article by Sugimoto et al. (1) The authors report the case of a 31 year old man with an eating disorder and hypokalaemia who was noted to have asymptomatic increased T2 signal in the central pons on brain magnetic...

Authors' reply.(Correspondence)
April 1, 2004... We thank Dr Keswani for his interesting comments. Unfortunately, we did not do diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of this patient, CPM has been regarded as a disease with poor prognosis associated with underlying alcoholism or malnutrition, and...

The Post-traumatic Vegetative State.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The post-traumatic vegetative state Edited by Giuliano Dolce G and Leon Sazbon. Published by Thieme, Stuttgart, 2002, pp 158, [euro]39.95. ISBN 1-58890-116-5 This study of the vegetative state (VS), substantially written by Dolce and...

The epidemiology of schizophrenia.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The epidemiology of schizophrenia Edited by Robin M Murray, Peter B Jones, Ezra Susser, Jim van Os, and Mary Cannon. Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003, pp 445, [pounds sterling]55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-77540-X...

Handbook of neurological rehabilitation, 2nd edition.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Handbook of neurological rehabilitation, 2nd edition Edited by Richard J Greenwood, Michael P Barnes, Thomas M McMillan, and Christopher D Ward. Published by Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, Hove, 2003, pp 725, [pounds sterling]120.00...