Lynne Turner-Stokes professor of rehabilitation , Jenny Kitzinger professor of communications research , Helen Gill-Thwaites consultant occupational therapist , E Diane Playford reader in neurological rehabilitation , Derick Wade professor of neurological rehabilitation , Judith Allanson consultant in neurorehabilitation , John Pickard professor of neurosurgery , On behalf of the Royal College ...

BACKGROUND Neurological soft signs (NSS) are hypothesized as candidate endophenotypes for schizophrenia, but their prevalence and relations with clinical and demographic data are unknown. The authors undertook a quantification (meta-analysis) of the published literature on NSS in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. A systematic search was conducted for published articles reporting...

John Michael*, Kristian Sandberg, Joshua Skewes, Thomas Wolf, Jakob Blicher, Morten Overgaard and Chris Frith 1 Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 2 Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 3 Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, Hammel Neurorehabilitation and Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 4 Institute of Cogn...

The nervous system is an extremely complex communication system that can send and receive large amounts of information simultaneously. The nervous system has two distinct parts: the central nervous system (the brain and the spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (the nerves located outside the brain and spinal cord). The main unit of the nervous system is neural cells (neurons). The rou...

traumatic brain injury (tbi) is one of the most common neurological diseases with no definite treatment. erythropoietin (epo) and progesterone (prog) have been shown to have neuroprotective effects in different types of experimental brain injury models. this study was designed to determine the effect of epo, prog and combination of epo/prog on neurological outcome after traumatic brain injury. ...

background: world health organization declared pandemic phase of human infection with novel influenza a (h1n1) in april 2009. there are very few reports about the neurological complications of h1n1 virus infection in the literature. occasionally, these complications are severe and even fatal in some individuals. the aims of this study were to report neurological complaints and/or complications ...

Medical plants have a great value in traditional knowledge related to human health care both used whole plant or consisting in curative remedies. These valuable uses has been led to commercial use of medicinal plants and their derivatives which makes great benefits. Also there is a growing desire to use of completely natural materials as curative drugs around the world. These facts show up a gr...

Mobile medical applications (mHealth), music, and video games are being developed and tested for their ability to improve pharmacotherapy outcomes and medication adherence. Pleiotropic mechanism of music and gamification engages an intrinsic motivation and the brain reward system, supporting therapies in patients with neurological disorders, including neuropathic pain, depression, anxiety, or n...

In recent years, supporting intellectual property right has gained more significance. Intellectual property rights could be considered as legal rights resulting from intellectual activities in industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Today, many countries are seeking practical information about using intellectual property to improve economic growth. Intellectual property rights hav...