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Contents: Volume 131, Number 1, January 2008   [Index by Author] 

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Editorial Back

Alastair Compston
Editorial
Brain 2008 131: 1-2; doi:10.1093/brain/awm308 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

From The Archives Back

Alastair Compston
Aphasia and artistic realization (being the Harveian lecture of the Harveian Society, delivered March 17th 1948) by Th. Alajouanine. Brain 1948: 71; 229–241.
Brain 2008 131: 3-5; doi:10.1093/brain/awm309 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific Commentary Back

Timothy D. Griffiths
Capturing creativity
Brain 2008 131: 6-7; doi:10.1093/brain/awm310 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Article Back

Jonathan D. Rohrer, William D. Knight, Jane E. Warren, Nick C. Fox, Martin N. Rossor, and Jason D. Warren
Word-finding difficulty: a clinical analysis of the progressive aphasias
Brain Advance Access published on October 18, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 8-38; doi:10.1093/brain/awm251 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Original Articles Back

William W. Seeley, Brandy R. Matthews, Richard K. Crawford, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Dean Foti, Ian R. Mackenzie, and Bruce L. Miller
Unravelling Boléro: progressive aphasia, transmodal creativity and the right posterior neocortex
Brain Advance Access published on December 5, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 39-49; doi:10.1093/brain/awm270 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Kate E. Watkins, Stephen M. Smith, Steve Davis, and Peter Howell
Structural and functional abnormalities of the motor system in developmental stuttering
Brain Advance Access published on October 10, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 50-59; doi:10.1093/brain/awm241 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. Chételat, B. Desgranges, B. Landeau, F. Mézenge, J. B. Poline, V. de la Sayette, F. Viader, F. Eustache, and J.-C. Baron
Direct voxel-based comparison between grey matter hypometabolism and atrophy in Alzheimer's disease
Brain Advance Access published on December 5, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 60-71; doi:10.1093/brain/awm288 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Salvatore Spina, Martin R. Farlow, Frederick W. Unverzagt, David A. Kareken, Jill R. Murrell, Graham Fraser, Francine Epperson, R. Anthony Crowther, Maria G. Spillantini, Michel Goedert, and Bernardino Ghetti
The tauopathy associated with mutation +3 in intron 10 of Tau: characterization of the MSTD family
Brain Advance Access published on December 7, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 72-89; doi:10.1093/brain/awm280 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Steven Petratos, Qiao-Xin Li, Amee J. George, Xu Hou, Megan L. Kerr, Sharon E. Unabia, Irene Hatzinisiriou, Danuta Maksel, Marie-Isabel Aguilar, and David H. Small
The β-amyloid protein of Alzheimer's disease increases neuronal CRMP-2 phosphorylation by a Rho-GTP mechanism
Brain Advance Access published on November 13, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 90-108; doi:10.1093/brain/awm260 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amit Berson, Marlen Knobloch, Mor Hanan, Sophia Diamant, Michal Sharoni, Daniel Schuppli, Brian C. Geyer, Rivka Ravid, Tsafrir S. Mor, Roger M. Nitsch, and Hermona Soreq
Changes in readthrough acetylcholinesterase expression modulate amyloid-beta pathology
Brain Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 109-119; doi:10.1093/brain/awm276 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen J. Kish, Junchao Tong, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Ali Rajput, Li-Jan Chang, Mark Guttman, and Yoshiaki Furukawa
Preferential loss of serotonin markers in caudate versus putamen in Parkinson's disease
Brain Advance Access published on October 22, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 120-131; doi:10.1093/brain/awm239 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Herzog, Peter H. Weiss, Ann Assmus, Björn Wefer, Christoph Seif, Peter M. Braun, Marcus O. Pinsker, Hans Herzog, Jens Volkmann, Günther Deuschl, and Gereon R. Fink
Improved sensory gating of urinary bladder afferents in Parkinson's disease following subthalamic stimulation
Brain Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 132-145; doi:10.1093/brain/awm254 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maren Carbon, Maria Felice Ghilardi, Miklos Argyelan, Vijay Dhawan, Susan B. Bressman, and David Eidelberg
Increased cerebellar activation during sequence learning in DYT1 carriers: an equiperformance study
Brain Advance Access published on October 18, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 146-154; doi:10.1093/brain/awm243 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bon-Mi Gu, Ji-Young Park, Do-Hyung Kang, Seung Jae Lee, So Young Yoo, Hang Joon Jo, Chi-Hoon Choi, Jong-Min Lee, and Jun Soo Kwon
Neural correlates of cognitive inflexibility during task-switching in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Brain Advance Access published on December 7, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 155-164; doi:10.1093/brain/awm277 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. L. Baym, B. A. Corbett, S. B. Wright, and S. A. Bunge
Neural correlates of tic severity and cognitive control in children with Tourette syndrome
Brain Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 165-179; doi:10.1093/brain/awm278 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Motoaki Nakamura, Paul G. Nestor, James J. Levitt, Adam S. Cohen, Toshiro Kawashima, Martha E. Shenton, and Robert W. McCarley
Orbitofrontal volume deficit in schizophrenia and thought disorder
Brain Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 180-195; doi:10.1093/brain/awm265 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefan Klöppel, Bogdan Draganski, Charlotte V. Golding, Carlton Chu, Zoltan Nagy, Philip A. Cook, Stephen L. Hicks, Christopher Kennard, Daniel C. Alexander, Geoff J. M. Parker, Sarah J. Tabrizi, and Richard S. J. Frackowiak
White matter connections reflect changes in voluntary-guided saccades in pre-symptomatic Huntington's disease
Brain Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 196-204; doi:10.1093/brain/awm275 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Chiara Nosarti, Elena Giouroukou, Elaine Healy, Larry Rifkin, Muriel Walshe, Abraham Reichenberg, Xavier Chitnis, Steven C. R. Williams, and Robin M. Murray
Grey and white matter distribution in very preterm adolescents mediates neurodevelopmental outcome
Brain Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 205-217; doi:10.1093/brain/awm282 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Rita Machaalani and Karen A. Waters
Neuronal cell death in the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome brainstem and associations with risk factors
Brain 2008 131: 218-228; doi:10.1093/brain/awm290 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Keisuke Suzuki, Masahisa Katsuno, Haruhiko Banno, Yu Takeuchi, Naoki Atsuta, Mizuki Ito, Hirohisa Watanabe, Fumitada Yamashita, Norio Hori, Tomohiko Nakamura, Masaaki Hirayama, Fumiaki Tanaka, and Gen Sobue
CAG repeat size correlates to electrophysiological motor and sensory phenotypes in SBMA
Brain Advance Access published on December 4, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 229-239; doi:10.1093/brain/awm289 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

X. Quaglia, A. T. Beggah, C. Seidenbecher, and A. D. Zurn
Delayed priming promotes CNS regeneration post-rhizotomy in Neurocan and Brevican-deficient mice
Brain Advance Access published on December 7, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 240-249; doi:10.1093/brain/awm279 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Lingor, Lars Tönges, Nicole Pieper, Christina Bermel, Elisabeth Barski, Veronique Planchamp, and Mathias Bähr
ROCK inhibition and CNTF interact on intrinsic signalling pathways and differentially regulate survival and regeneration in retinal ganglion cells
Brain Advance Access published on December 5, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 250-263; doi:10.1093/brain/awm284 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Marc D. Kubasak, Devin L. Jindrich, Hui Zhong, Aya Takeoka, Kimberly C. McFarland, Cintia Muñoz-Quiles, Roland R. Roy, V. Reggie Edgerton, Almudena Ramón-Cueto, and Patricia E. Phelps
OEG implantation and step training enhance hindlimb-stepping ability in adult spinal transected rats
Brain Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 264-276; doi:10.1093/brain/awm267 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew P. D. Henderson, S. Anand Trip, Patricio G. Schlottmann, Daniel R. Altmann, David F. Garway-Heath, Gordon T. Plant, and David H. Miller
An investigation of the retinal nerve fibre layer in progressive multiple sclerosis using optical coherence tomography
Brain Advance Access published on December 4, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 277-287; doi:10.1093/brain/awm285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Zeis, Ursula Graumann, Richard Reynolds, and Nicole Schaeren-Wiemers
Normal-appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis is in a subtle balance between inflammation and neuroprotection
Brain Advance Access published on December 4, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 288-303; doi:10.1093/brain/awm291 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review Back

John Cornwell
Keeping media in mind
Brain 2008 131: 304-307; doi:10.1093/brain/awm225 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Thomas C. Thannickal, Yuan-Yang Lai, and Jerome M. Siegel
Hypocretin (orexin) and melanin concentrating hormone loss and the symptoms of Parkinson's disease
Brain Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Brain 2008 131: e87; doi:10.1093/brain/awm221 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Rolf Fronczek, Sebastiaan Overeem, Sandy Y.Y. Lee, Ingrid. M. Hegeman, Johannes van Pelt, Sjoerd G. van Duinen, Gert Jan Lammers, and Dick F. Swaab
Hypocretin (orexin) loss and sleep disturbances in Parkinson's Disease
Brain Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Brain 2008 131: e88; doi:10.1093/brain/awm222 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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