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ADAGIO/Rasagiline Study: Has Neuroprotection Been Achieved?

The study, along with previous research, supports a beneficial effect of MAO-B inhibitors on progression of motor disability, if not on the neurobiology of Parkinson disease.

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Neuromyelitis Serostatus in Fulminant CNS Demyelinating Disease

What does NMO-IgG presence in serum indicate?

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A Confused PatientFree

A case description and diagnosis and an expert's discussion

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In Search of the Cortical Signature of Early Alzheimer Disease

A new technique shows promise for identifying patients in the early stages of AD.

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Meta-Analysis of Treatments for Bell Palsy

An update on the evidence for using corticosteroids, antivirals, or both

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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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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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