The palmomental reflex, an involuntary contraction of the mentalis muscle of the chin caused by stimulation of the thenar eminence, can be tested easily and rapidly. Its presence may alert the ...

From 1979-85, 2435 patients with a transient ischaemic attack or minor ischaemic stroke were randomly allocated to receive long term "blind" treatment with aspirin 600 mg twice daily (n = 815), ...

Dr J van der Naalt, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. Fax 0031 50 3611707; emailj.van.der.naalt{at}neuro.azg.nl OBJECTIVES To ...

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

1 Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital and Western Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and Prince of Wales Clinical School, ...

2 Department of Neurology, IRYCIS, Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain 3 Department of Neurology, Hospital Fundacion Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain 4 Department of Neurology, Hospital Puerta de Hierro, ...

Dr Giovanni Defazio, Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, I-70124 Bari, Italy. Telephone 0039 80 5478511; fax 0039 80 5478532. OBJECTIVES Little is known about ...

Correspondence to: Professor Alan J Thompson Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK; a.thompsonion.ucl.ac.uk Spasticity is a common symptom seen in many neurological conditions, ...

OBJECTIVES To clarify the nosological relation among Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS), Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) with ophthalmoplegia, Bickerstaff's brain stem encephalitis (BBE), and acute ...

1 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins ...

1 Department of Clinical Neurology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of Gastroenterology, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital Correspondence to: Dr M Hadjivassiliou, Department of ...

1 Department of Neurosciences and Institute of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 2 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Barts and the London School of ...