Background and purpose To investigate early clinical surrogates for long-term independency of patients treated with thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion stroke in daily clinical routine. Methods ...

Objective Antibodies against contactin-associated protein-like 2 (CASPR2-Abs) have been described in acquired neuromyotonia, limbic encephalitis (LE) and Morvan syndrome (MoS). However, it is unknown ...

Correspondence to Professor Eduardo Nobile-Orazio, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milano 20122, Lombardia, Italy; eduardo.nobile{at}unimi.it ...

Background Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (NMDARE) is a severe autoimmune disorder with high morbidity and mortality. Current treatments have limitations including relapse, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kazumoto Shibuya, Neurology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; kazumoto{at}net.email.ne.jp Background Previous studies have shown that patients ...

Correspondence to Professor Piero Parchi, Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica Diagnostica e Sperimentale, Università di Bologna, Bologna 40138, Italy; piero.parchi{at}unibo.it Objective To compare ...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate available evidence for each step in autoimmune encephalitis management and provide expert opinion when evidence is lacking. The paper approaches autoimmune ...

a Department of Neurosurgery, Benjamin Franklin Medical Center, Free University of Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany, b Department of Radiology Dr Ruediger Stendel, Department of ...

Spinal arachnoiditis is a rare condition. Eighty cases, diagnosed during a period when 7600 spinal contrast investigations were undertaken, have been reviewed. The majority had suffered a previous ...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated neuropathy typically characterised by symmetrical involvement, and proximal as well as distal muscle weakness (typical ...

Objective Psychosis of epilepsy (POE) occurs more frequently in temporal lobe epilepsy, raising the question as to whether abnormalities of the hippocampus are aetiologically important. Despite ...

Objective To establish a rigorous, expert-led, evidence-based approach to the evaluation of licensed drugs for repurposing and testing in clinical trials of people with progressive multiple sclerosis ...