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Does the primary literature provide support for clinical signs used to distinguish psychogenic nonepileptic seizures from epileptic seizures?
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) represent a diagnostic challenge. When trying to distinguish between PNES and epileptic seizures (ES), clinicians rely on the presence or absence of several ...
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Total bilirubin modified the association between diabetes and stroke: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2011–2016
Background Total bilirubin (TBIL) has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. This study aimed to determine whether elevated TBIL could modify the association between diabetes and stroke. Method ...
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Patient outcomes up to 15 years after stroke: survival, disability, quality of life, cognition and mental health
2 NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy's & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK 3 Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK 4 ...
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Imaging endolymphatic space of the inner ear in vestibular migraine
Background Vestibular migraine (VM), the most frequent episodic vertigo, is difficult to distinguish from Ménière’s disease (MD) because reliable biomarkers are missing. The classical proof of MD was ...
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Trauma and depressive symptomatology in middle-aged persons at high risk of dementia: the PREVENT Dementia Study
Objective Depression and trauma are associated with changes in brain regions implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. The present study examined associations between childhood trauma, depression, adult ...
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Diffusion and functional MRI findings and their relationship to behaviour in postconcussion syndrome: a scoping review
Postconcussion syndrome (PCS) is a term attributed to the constellation of symptoms that fail to recover after a concussion. PCS is associated with a variety of symptoms such as headaches, ...
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Functional disorders after COVID-19 vaccine fuel vaccination hesitancy
Correspondence to Prof Alfonso Fasano, Movement Disorders Centre, Toronto Western Hospital 399 Bathurst St, 7McL410, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; alfonso.fasano{at}gmail.com Due to the dramatic spread of ...
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Urinary dysfunction and orthostatic hypotension in multiple system atrophy: which is the more common and earlier manifestation?
Dr Ryuji Sakakibara, Department of Neurology Chiba University 1–8–1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260–8670 Japan. Telephone 0081 43 226 2129; fax 0081 43 226 2160; emailsakaki{at}med.m.chiba-u.ac.jp ...
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Multisensory bionic limb to achieve prosthesis embodiment and reduce distorted phantom limb perceptions
1 Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland A major goal of neuroprosthetics is to design artificial limbs that are experienced (‘embodied’) like ...
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Binary reversals: a diagnostic sign in primary progressive aphasia
Background Binary reversals (exemplified by ‘yes’/‘no’ confusions) have been described in patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) but their diagnostic value and phenotypic correlates have not ...
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Which neuropsychiatric and behavioural features distinguish frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer's disease?
OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of changes in mood, personality, and behaviour in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and hence, which features reliably distinguish ...
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Nationwide survey of patients in Japan with Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis: epidemiological and clinical characteristics
1 Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan 2 Department of Neurology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, ...