Correspondence to Dr Ding Ding, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan Univeristy, Shanghai 200040, China; dingding{at}huashan.org.cn We have ...

2 Jubilee Day Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital, Rake Lane, North Shields, Tyne and Wear NE29 8NH, UK 3 North Tyneside General Hospital, Rake Lane, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE29 8NH, UK ...

Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine/Shands Hospital, Movement Disorders Center, McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA Objective: To determine how ...

Background and aim: The psychometric properties of rating scales are sample dependent and need evaluations in different samples. The Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29), a new patient based ...

Professor J D Mitchell, Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9HT, UK. Telephone 0044 1772 710423, fax 0044 1772 718746. OBJECTIVES To seek ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate, in people with multiple sclerosis, two psychometric assumptions that must be satisfied for valid use of the medical outcomes study 36-item short form health survey (SF-36): the ...

4 Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sidney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Nicholas Higgins Department of Radiology, Box 219, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, ...

Advanced neuroimaging has increased understanding of the pathogenesis and spread of disease, and offered new therapeutic targets. MRI and positron emission tomography have shown that neurodegenerative ...

Background: Cerebral small vessel disease is a common cause of vascular dementia. Both discrete lacunar infarcts and more diffuse ischaemic changes, seen as confluent high signal (leukoaraiosis) on T2 ...

1 Institute of Brain and Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Radiology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, Maastricht, The ...

Objective Although knowledge on poststroke cognitive and functional decline is increasing, little is known about the possible decline of these functions before stroke. We determined the long-term ...