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Neuroimaging of Acute Ischaemic Stroke: Current Challenges

Over the last decade, neuroimaging methods have been refined to improve clinical decisions regarding acute stroke treatment. Computed tomography and…

Depression and Psychological Distress as Risk Factors for Stroke and Worse Stroke Recovery: Clinical Implications and Therapeutic Options

Stroke and depression have a strong bidirectional association: on the one hand, depression and psychosocial distress are well known risk factors for…

Imaging and Treatment Decisions in Seizures and Epilepsy

It has been clearly shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the preferred modality of structural imaging for both new onset seizures and…

A Scarlet Enemy of the Brain – A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

We present two cases of elderly patients admitted with neurological dysfunction due to isolated focal cortical subarachnoid bleeding and intracerebral…

Encephalopathy Associated With Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

Autoimmune thyroid diseases (ATDs) are immune-endocrine disorders affecting the thyroid gland and, eventually, also a number of other systemic targets…

Current Concepts of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) are described as disorders with selective loss of neurons and distinct involvement of functional systems defining…

A Note on Changing Approach to Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

This short review summarises the conclusions of two different series of studies set out to revise the 1984 National Institute of Neurological and…

Neuropsychiatric Features of Parkinson’s disease with Cognitive Impairment: An Overview

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is known to cause neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS). It has been established that the more advanced the motor stage of PD is, the…

Motor System Plasticity and Compensation in Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects the central nervous system (CNS) by inflammatory lesions, direct axonal injury, and by a rather diffuse and widespread…

EMJ Neurology 2014

I am pleased to introduce to you this second edition of the European Medical Journal Neurology, in which the most important, game-changing…