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The state-of-the-art of neurology at your fingertips: Our physician editors identify experts to comment on the most compelling original research and review articles in their fields.

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Preventative Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms

A new cost-effectiveness analysis addresses some clinically important questions.

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Genetic Causes of Dopa-Responsive Dystonia

Parkinsonism is not the only clinical syndrome associated with abnormal dopamine levels.

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Quality of Life with Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures

Psychiatric symptoms affect quality of life more than seizure frequency does.

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Subjectively Poor Sleep Correlates with Postpartum Depression

In a questionnaire study, this association held true even after adjustments for other known risk factors for depression.

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VECTORS Study: Are We Going in the Right Direction?

Contrary to expectation, high-intensity constraint-induced therapy produced worse outcomes than lower-intensity constraint-induced therapy or conventional therapy when used early after stroke.

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Psychological Health in Central Hypersomnias: The French Harmony Study

An ambitious and impressive study of central hypersomnias — including cataplectic narcolepsy, narcolepsy without cataplexy, and idiopathic hypersomnia — helps to clarify the associations of these entities with each other, with depressive symptomatology, and with treatment response.

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Does Hypothermia Lead to Better Outcomes in Newborns with Asphyxial Encephalopathy?Free

Hypothermia did not lower mortality but did lead to better neurological outcomes in survivors.

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FOUR Score Coma Scale in Medical Intensive CareFree

This relatively new coma assessment scale performed well in predicting outcome in medical intensive care, but it needs further validation.

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Neurological Comorbidity and Epilepsy Treatment

A review highlights the dearth of class 1 evidence regarding optimal epilepsy treatment and drug–drug interactions in the setting of comorbid disease.

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Link Found Between Sleep Loss and Colitis

In mice, sleep deprivation worsens colonic inflammation.

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Neuroimaging with Pittsburgh Compound B in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

MCI patients with amyloid retention identified by PiB most likely have very early AD.

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Journal Watch Neurology summarizes important medical journal articles about a wide variety of neurologic subjects including Alzheimer disease, autoimmune disease, epilepsy, headache, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, Parkinson disease, sleep, and stroke.

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Neurology Editor-in-Chief

Martin A. Samuels, MD
Martin A. Samuels, MD, FAAN, MACP, DSc (hon)
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Chairman Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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