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Contents: Volume 131, Number 3, March 2008   [Index by Author] 

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Editorial Back

Alastair Compston
Editorial
Brain 2008 131: 597-599; doi:10.1093/brain/awn021 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

From The Archives Back

Alastair Compston
On aphasia due to atrophy of the cerebral convolutions. By Dr G. Mingazzini, Professor of Neuropathology at the Royal University of Rome. Brain 1914: 36; 493–524.
Brain 2008 131: 600-603; doi:10.1093/brain/awn022 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific Commentary Back

Stefano Pluchino and Gianvito Martino
Neural stem cell-mediated immunomodulation: repairing the haemorrhagic brain
Brain 2008 131: 604-605; doi:10.1093/brain/awn015 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Article Back

C. O. Hanemann
Magic but treatable? Tumours due to loss of Merlin
Brain Advance Access published on October 16, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 606-615; doi:10.1093/brain/awm249 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Original Articles Back

Soon-Tae Lee, Kon Chu, Keun-Hwa Jung, Se-Jeong Kim, Dong-Hyun Kim, Kyung-Mook Kang, Nan Hyung Hong, Jin-Hee Kim, Jae-Joon Ban, Hee-Kwon Park, Seung U. Kim, Chung-Gyu Park, Sang Kun Lee, Manho Kim, and Jae-Kyu Roh
Anti-inflammatory mechanism of intravascular neural stem cell transplantation in haemorrhagic stroke
Brain Advance Access published on December 20, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 616-629; doi:10.1093/brain/awm306 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Fiona E. O’Keeffe, Sarah A. Scott, Pam Tyers, Gerard W. O’Keeffe, Jeffrey W. Dalley, Romain Zufferey, and Maeve A. Caldwell
Induction of A9 dopaminergic neurons from neural stem cells improves motor function in an animal model of Parkinson's disease
Brain Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 630-641; doi:10.1093/brain/awm340 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Satoshi Orimo, Toshiki Uchihara, Ayako Nakamura, Fumiaki Mori, Akiyoshi Kakita, Koichi Wakabayashi, and Hitoshi Takahashi
Axonal {alpha}-synuclein aggregates herald centripetal degeneration of cardiac sympathetic nerve in Parkinson's disease
Brain Advance Access published on December 13, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 642-650; doi:10.1093/brain/awm302 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Linda A. Kotilinek, Marcus A. Westerman, Qinwen Wang, Kimberly Panizzon, Giselle P. Lim, Agnes Simonyi, Sylvain Lesne, Agnieszka Falinska, Linda H. Younkin, Steven G. Younkin, Michael Rowan, James Cleary, Roi Ann Wallis, Grace Y. Sun, Greg Cole, Sally Frautschy, Roger Anwyl, and Karen H. Ashe
Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition improves amyloid-β-mediated suppression of memory and synaptic plasticity
Brain 2008 131: 651-664; doi:10.1093/brain/awn008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Clifford R. Jack, Jr, Val J. Lowe, Matthew L. Senjem, Stephen D. Weigand, Bradley J. Kemp, Maria M. Shiung, David S. Knopman, Bradley F. Boeve, William E. Klunk, Chester A. Mathis, and Ronald C. Petersen
11C PiB and structural MRI provide complementary information in imaging of Alzheimer's disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment
Brain Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 665-680; doi:10.1093/brain/awm336 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Stefan Klöppel, Cynthia M. Stonnington, Carlton Chu, Bogdan Draganski, Rachael I. Scahill, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Nick C. Fox, Clifford R. Jack, Jr, John Ashburner, and Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Automatic classification of MR scans in Alzheimer's disease
Brain Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 681-689; doi:10.1093/brain/awm319 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Laura Bonanni, Astrid Thomas, Pietro Tiraboschi, Bernardo Perfetti, Sara Varanese, and Marco Onofrj
EEG comparisons in early Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia patients with a 2-year follow-up
Brain Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 690-705; doi:10.1093/brain/awm322 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Beck, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Tracy Campbell, Adrian Isaacs, Karen E. Morrison, Emily F. Goodall, Elizabeth K. Warrington, John Stevens, Tamas Revesz, Janice Holton, Safa Al-Sarraj, Andrew King, Rachael Scahill, Jason D. Warren, Nick C. Fox, Martin N. Rossor, John Collinge, and Simon Mead
A distinct clinical, neuropsychological and radiological phenotype is associated with progranulin gene mutations in a large UK series
Brain Advance Access published on January 29, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 706-720; doi:10.1093/brain/awm320 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Stuart M. Pickering-Brown, Sara Rollinson, Daniel Du Plessis, Karen E. Morrison, Anoop Varma, Anna M. T. Richardson, David Neary, Julie S. Snowden, and David M. A. Mann
Frequency and clinical characteristics of progranulin mutation carriers in the Manchester frontotemporal lobar degeneration cohort: comparison with patients with MAPT and no known mutations
Brain Advance Access published on January 11, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 721-731; doi:10.1093/brain/awm331 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Isabelle Le Ber, Agnès Camuzat, Didier Hannequin, Florence Pasquier, Eric Guedj, Anne Rovelet-Lecrux, Valérie Hahn-Barma, Julie van der Zee, Fabienne Clot, Serge Bakchine, Michèle Puel, Mustapha Ghanim, Lucette Lacomblez, Jacqueline Mikol, Vincent Deramecourt, Pascal Lejeune, Vincent de la Sayette, Serge Belliard, Martine Vercelletto, Christian Meyrignac, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Jean-Charles Lambert, Patrice Verpillat, Dominique Campion, Marie-Odile Habert, Bruno Dubois, Alexis Brice, and the French research network on FTD/FTD-MND
Phenotype variability in progranulin mutation carriers: a clinical, neuropsychological, imaging and genetic study
Brain Advance Access published on February 1, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 732-746; doi:10.1093/brain/awn012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Violeta Mihaylova, Juliane S. Müller, Juan J. Vilchez, Mustafa A. Salih, Mohammad M. Kabiraj, Adele D’Amico, Enrico Bertini, Joachim Wölfle, Felix Schreiner, Gerhard Kurlemann, Vedrana Milic Rasic, Dana Siskova, Jaume Colomer, Agnes Herczegfalvi, Katarina Fabriciova, Bernhard Weschke, Rosana Scola, Friederike Hoellen, Ulrike Schara, Angela Abicht, and Hanns Lochmüller
Clinical and molecular genetic findings in COLQ-mutant congenital myasthenic syndromes
Brain Advance Access published on January 7, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 747-759; doi:10.1093/brain/awm325 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

C. Ewenczyk, A. Leroux, A. Roubergue, V. Laugel, A. Afenjar, J. M. Saudubray, P. Beauvais, T. Billette de Villemeur, M. Vidailhet, and E. Roze
Recessive hereditary methaemoglobinaemia, type II: delineation of the clinical spectrum
Brain Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 760-761; doi:10.1093/brain/awm337 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giovanni Stevanin, Hamid Azzedine, Paola Denora, Amir Boukhris, Meriem Tazir, Alexander Lossos, Alberto Luis Rosa, Israela Lerer, Abdelmadjid Hamri, Paulo Alegria, José Loureiro, Masayoshi Tada, Didier Hannequin, Mathieu Anheim, Cyril Goizet, Victoria Gonzalez-Martinez, Isabelle Le Ber, Sylvie Forlani, Kiyoshi Iwabuchi, Vardiela Meiner, Goekhan Uyanik, Anne Kjersti Erichsen, Imed Feki, Florence Pasquier, Soreya Belarbi, Vitor T. Cruz, Christel Depienne, Jeremy Truchetto, Guillaume Garrigues, Chantal Tallaksen, Christine Tranchant, Masatoyo Nishizawa, José Vale, Paula Coutinho, Filippo M. Santorelli, Chokri Mhiri, Alexis Brice, Alexandra Durr, and on behalf of the SPATAX consortium
Mutations in SPG11 are frequent in autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia with thin corpus callosum, cognitive decline and lower motor neuron degeneration
Brain Advance Access published on December 13, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 772-784; doi:10.1093/brain/awm293 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Igal Ifergan, Hania Kébir, Monique Bernard, Karolina Wosik, Aurore Dodelet-Devillers, Romain Cayrol, Nathalie Arbour, and Alexandre Prat
The blood–brain barrier induces differentiation of migrating monocytes into Th17-polarizing dendritic cells
Brain Advance Access published on December 20, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 785-799; doi:10.1093/brain/awm295 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Machteld M. Vellinga, Raoul D. Oude Engberink, Alexandra Seewann, Petra J.W. Pouwels, Mike P. Wattjes, Susanne M.A. van der Pol, Christiane Pering, Chris H. Polman, Helga E. de Vries, Jeroen J.G. Geurts, and Frederik Barkhof
Pluriformity of inflammation in multiple sclerosis shown by ultra-small iron oxide particle enhancement
Brain Advance Access published on February 1, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 800-807; doi:10.1093/brain/awn009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

L. K. Fisniku, P. A. Brex, D. R. Altmann, K. A. Miszkiel, C. E. Benton, R. Lanyon, A. J. Thompson, and D. H. Miller
Disability and T2 MRI lesions: a 20-year follow-up of patients with relapse onset of multiple sclerosis
Brain Advance Access published on January 29, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 808-817; doi:10.1093/brain/awm329 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bernt A. Engelsen, Charalampos Tzoulis, Bjørn Karlsen, Atle Lillebø, Liv M. Lægreid, Jan Aasly, Massimo Zeviani, and Laurence A. Bindoff
POLG1 mutations cause a syndromic epilepsy with occipital lobe predilection
Brain Advance Access published on January 30, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 818-828; doi:10.1093/brain/awn007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian Bellebaum, Benno Koch, Michael Schwarz, and Irene Daum
Focal basal ganglia lesions are associated with impairments in reward-based reversal learning
Brain Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 829-841; doi:10.1093/brain/awn011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Di Russo, Teresa Aprile, Grazia Spitoni, and Donatella Spinelli
Impaired visual processing of contralesional stimuli in neglect patients: a visual-evoked potential study
Brain Advance Access published on November 16, 2007
Brain 2008 131: 842-854; doi:10.1093/brain/awm281 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Fabrizio Leo, Nadia Bolognini, Claudia Passamonti, Barry E. Stein, and Elisabetta Làdavas
Cross-modal localization in hemianopia: new insights on multisensory integration
Brain Advance Access published on February 7, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 855-865; doi:10.1093/brain/awn003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teppo Särkämö, Mari Tervaniemi, Sari Laitinen, Anita Forsblom, Seppo Soinila, Mikko Mikkonen, Taina Autti, Heli M. Silvennoinen, Jaakko Erkkilä, Matti Laine, Isabelle Peretz, and Marja Hietanen
Music listening enhances cognitive recovery and mood after middle cerebral artery stroke
Brain Advance Access published on February 20, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 866-876; doi:10.1093/brain/awn013 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Occasional Paper Back

Peter J. Koehler and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Historical study of coma: looking back through medical and neurological texts
Brain Advance Access published on January 21, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 877-889; doi:10.1093/brain/awm332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review Back

Jason Warren
Another musical mystery tour
Brain Advance Access published on February 17, 2008
Brain 2008 131: 890-894; doi:10.1093/brain/awn017 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Christian R. Baumann, Thomas E. Scammell, and Claudio L. Bassetti
Parkinson's disease, sleepiness and hypocretin/orexin
Brain Advance Access published on September 26, 2007
Brain 2008 131: e91; doi:10.1093/brain/awm220 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bruno Brochet, Vincent Dousset, Mathilde Deloire, Claudine Boiziau, and Klaus G. Petry
MRI to predict severe tissue damage in inflammatory lesions in animal models of multiple sclerosis
Brain Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Brain 2008 131: e92; doi:10.1093/brain/awm261 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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