CG, GEL Department of Neurosciences, Alzheimer Research Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA CG Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA MTH Department of Neurology, University of Muenster, Germany MS, MB Department of Neurology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Germany; US Department of Neurology, University of Bochum, Bochum DLF Department of Anesthe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Randomized trials have demonstrated reduced morbidity and mortality with stroke unit care; however, the effect on length of stay, and hence the economic benefit, is less well-defined. In 2001, a multidisciplinary stroke unit was opened at our institution. We observed whether a stroke unit reduces length of stay and in-hospital case fatality when compared to admission to a...

1 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Denmark Hill, London, UK 2 Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 3 Department of Neurology, Kecskemet County Hospital, Kecskemét, Hungary 4 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 5 Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Transilvani...

1Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 2Department of Immunohaematology, Leiden University Medical Centre, 3DMV International, Wageningen, The Netherlands and 4Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia Correspondence to: Marcel S. G. Kwa, PhD, K2 Room 219, Neurogenetics Laboratory, Department of N...

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in an immunocompetent patient Nicolien M. van der Kolk, Peer Arts, Ingeborg W. M. van Uden, Alexander Hoischen, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Mihai G. Netea & Brigit A. de Jong Department of Neurology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department...

Touch MEdical MEdia 1 It is no small task to choose from among the many accomplishments and advances in child neurology that epitomize the year’s achievements. Making choices means making inclusions and omissions others would not have made. Choices notwithstanding, the small sampling presented at the 2015 American Academy of Neurology meeting in Washington, DC, US, serves to reflect the breadth...

1 Alzheimer Center & Department of Neurology, 2 Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, 3 Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, 4 Department of Physics & Medical Technology, 5 Department of Clinical Genetics, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 6 Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, 7 Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition,...

STEPHEN ASHWAL (ed.), Thefounders of child neurology, Norman Neurosciences Series 1, San Francisco, Norman Publishing in association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990, pp. xii, 935, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-26-9). Ashwal has undertaken the mammoth task of bringing together biographical sketches, written by over 100 medical specialists, of 124 individuals who have made important contributio...

Pediatric Neurology Briefs (PNB) has been published monthly since 1987 as a continuing education service designed to expedite and facilitate review of current medical literature concerning pediatric neurology.