Brain

Editorial:

Alastair Compston

Editorial
Brain 2006 129: 1-2; doi:10.1093/brain/awh723 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

From the Archives:

Alastair Compston

From the Archives
Brain 2006 129: 3-5; doi:10.1093/brain/awh718 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific Commentary:

Alfredo Berardelli

New advances in the pathophysiology of focal dystonias
Brain 2006 129: 6-7; doi:10.1093/brain/awh717 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Articles:

S. L. Venance, S. C. Cannon, D. Fialho, B. Fontaine, M. G. Hanna, L. J. Ptacek, M. Tristani-Firouzi, R. Tawil, and R. C. Griggs the CINCH investigators

The primary periodic paralyses: diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment
Brain Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 8-17; doi:10.1093/brain/awh639 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefan Remy and Heinz Beck

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pharmacoresistance in epilepsy
Brain Advance Access published on November 29, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 18-35; doi:10.1093/brain/awh682 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles:

Christian Dresel, Bernhard Haslinger, Florian Castrop, Afra M. Wohlschlaeger, and Andrés O. Ceballos-Baumann

Silent event-related fMRI reveals deficient motor and enhanced somatosensory activation in orofacial dystonia
Brain Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 36-46; doi:10.1093/brain/awh665 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mirta Fiorio, Michele Tinazzi, and Salvatore M. Aglioti

Selective impairment of hand mental rotation in patients with focal hand dystonia
Brain Advance Access published on September 8, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 47-54; doi:10.1093/brain/awh630 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johannes Sarnthein, Jair Stern, Christoph Aufenberg, Valentin Rousson, and Daniel Jeanmonod

Increased EEG power and slowed dominant frequency in patients with neurogenic pain
Brain Advance Access published on September 23, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 55-64; doi:10.1093/brain/awh631 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guido Rubboli, Roberto Mai, Stefano Meletti, Stefano Francione, Francesco Cardinale, Laura Tassi, Giorgio Lo Russo, Michelangelo Stanzani-Maserati, Gaetano Cantalupo, and Carlo Alberto Tassinari

Negative myoclonus induced by cortical electrical stimulation in epileptic patients
Brain Advance Access published on November 4, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 65-81; doi:10.1093/brain/awh661 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susanne Fauser and Andreas Schulze-Bonhage

Epileptogenicity of cortical dysplasia in temporal lobe dual pathology: an electrophysiological study with invasive recordings
Brain Advance Access published on November 29, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 82-95; doi:10.1093/brain/awh687 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robbert G. E. Notenboom, David R. Hampson, Gerard H. Jansen, Peter C. van Rijen, Cees W. M. van Veelen, Onno van Nieuwenhuizen, and Pierre N. E. de Graan

Up-regulation of hippocampal metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 in temporal lobe epilepsy patients
Brain Advance Access published on November 25, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 96-107; doi:10.1093/brain/awh673 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Juergen Fell, Guillén Fernández, Martin T. Lutz, Edgar Kockelmann, Wieland Burr, Carlo Schaller, Christian E. Elger, and Christoph Helmstaedter

Rhinal–hippocampal connectivity determines memory formation during sleep
Brain Advance Access published on October 26, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 108-114; doi:10.1093/brain/awh647 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tony W. Buchanan, Daniel Tranel, and Ralph Adolphs

Memories for emotional autobiographical events following unilateral damage to medial temporal lobe
Brain Advance Access published on November 16, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 115-127; doi:10.1093/brain/awh672 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul M. Dockree, Fiadhnait M. O'Keeffe, Pauline Moloney, Anthony J. Bishara, Simone Carton, Larry L. Jacoby, and Ian H. Robertson

Capture by misleading information and its false acceptance in patients with traumatic brain injury
Brain Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 128-140; doi:10.1093/brain/awh664 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rutger Goekoop, Philip Scheltens, Frederik Barkhof, and Serge A. R. B. Rombouts

Cholinergic challenge in Alzheimer patients and mild cognitive impairment differentially affects hippocampal activation—a pharmacological fMRI study
Brain Advance Access published on October 26, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 141-157; doi:10.1093/brain/awh671 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scott A. McDonald, Galina Spitsyna, Richard C. Shillcock, Richard J. S. Wise, and Alexander P. Leff

Patients with hemianopic alexia adopt an inefficient eye movement strategy when reading text
Brain Advance Access published on November 29, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 158-167; doi:10.1093/brain/awh678 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacqueline C. Snow and Jason B. Mattingley

Goal-driven selective attention in patients with right hemisphere lesions: how intact is the ipsilesional field?
Brain Advance Access published on November 29, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 168-181; doi:10.1093/brain/awh690 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Kamran Ikram, Frank Jan De Jong, Ewoud J. Van Dijk, Niels D. Prins, Albert Hofman, Monique M. B. Breteler, and Paulus T. V. M. De Jong

Retinal vessel diameters and cerebral small vessel disease: the Rotterdam Scan Study
Brain Advance Access published on November 29, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 182-188; doi:10.1093/brain/awh688 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tiina Sairanen, Marja-Liisa Karjalainen-Lindsberg, Anders Paetau, Petra Ijäs, and Perttu J. Lindsberg

Apoptosis dominant in the periinfarct area of human ischaemic stroke—a possible target of antiapoptotic treatments
Brain Advance Access published on November 4, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 189-199; doi:10.1093/brain/awh645 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Markus Krumbholz, Diethilde Theil, Sabine Cepok, Bernhard Hemmer, Pia Kivisäkk, Richard M. Ransohoff, Monika Hofbauer, Cinthia Farina, Tobias Derfuss, Caroline Hartle, Jia Newcombe, Reinhard Hohlfeld, and Edgar Meinl

Chemokines in multiple sclerosis: CXCL12 and CXCL13 up-regulation is differentially linked to CNS immune cell recruitment
Brain Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 200-211; doi:10.1093/brain/awh680 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Don Mahad, Melissa K. Callahan, Katherine A. Williams, Eroboghene E. Ubogu, Pia Kivisäkk, Barbara Tucky, Grahame Kidd, Gillian A. Kingsbury, Ansi Chang, Robert J. Fox, Matthias Mack, M. Bradley Sniderman, Rivka Ravid, Susan M. Staugaitis, Monique F. Stins, and Richard M. Ransohoff

Modulating CCR2 and CCL2 at the blood–brain barrier: relevance for multiple sclerosis pathogenesis
Brain Advance Access published on October 17, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 212-223; doi:10.1093/brain/awh655 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. C. Hobart, A. Riazi, A. J. Thompson, I. M. Styles, W. Ingram, P. J. Vickery, M. Warner, P. J. Fox, and J. P. Zajicek

Getting the measure of spasticity in multiple sclerosis: the Multiple Sclerosis Spasticity Scale (MSSS-88)
Brain Advance Access published on November 9, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 224-234; doi:10.1093/brain/awh675 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Cagnoli, Caterina Mariotti, Franco Taroni, Marco Seri, Alessandro Brussino, Chiara Michielotto, Marina Grisoli, Daniela Di Bella, Nicola Migone, Cinzia Gellera, Stefano Di Donato, and Alfredo Brusco

SCA28, a novel form of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia on chromosome 18p11.22–q11.2
Brain Advance Access published on October 26, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 235-242; doi:10.1093/brain/awh651 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. M. Greco, R. F. Berman, R. M. Martin, F. Tassone, P. H. Schwartz, A. Chang, B. D. Trapp, C. Iwahashi, J. Brunberg, J. Grigsby, D. Hessl, E. J. Becker, J. Papazian, M. A. Leehey, R. J. Hagerman, and P. J. Hagerman

Neuropathology of fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS)
Brain Advance Access published on December 5, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 243-255; doi:10.1093/brain/awh683 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. K. Iwahashi, D. H. Yasui, H.-J. An, C. M. Greco, F. Tassone, K. Nannen, B. Babineau, C. B. Lebrilla, R. J. Hagerman, and P. J. Hagerman

Protein composition of the intranuclear inclusions of FXTAS
Brain Advance Access published on October 24, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 256-271; doi:10.1093/brain/awh650 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K. E. Chandler, A. Del Rio, K. Rakshi, K. Springell, D. K. Williams, N. Stoodley, C. G. Woods, and D. T. Pilz

Leucodysplasia, microcephaly, cerebral malformation (LMC): a novel recessive disorder linked to 2p16
Brain Advance Access published on November 4, 2005
Brain 2006 129: 272-277; doi:10.1093/brain/awh663 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews:

Alister McGrath

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE: A MEMOIR • By Karen Armstrong 2005 • London: Harper Perennial • Price: £8.99 • ISBN: 0007122292 • THE SACRED NEURON: EXTRAORDINARY NEW DISCOVERIES LINKING SCIENCE AND RELIGION • By John Bowker 2005 • London: I B Tauris • Price: £18.99 • ISBN: 1850434816 • SPIRITUALITY AND THE HEALTHY MIND: SCIENCE, THERAPY, AND THE NEED FOR PERSONAL MEANING • By Mark Galanter 2005 • Oxford: Oxford University Press • Price: £19.99 • ISBN: 0195176693 • CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE MIND OF GOD • By Charles Taliaferro 2005 • Cambridge: Cambridge University Press • Price: £29.00 • ISBN: 0521673461
Brain 2006 129: 278-282; doi:10.1093/brain/awh719 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor:

Vinod Gupta

Silent or non-clinical infarct-like lesions in the posterior circulation territory in migraine: brain hypoperfusion or hyperperfusion?
Brain 2006 129: E39; doi:10.1093/brain/awh697 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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