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Editorial

Alastair Compston

Editorial
Brain 2009 132: 2621-2622; doi:10.1093/brain/awp250 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

From The Archives

Alastair Compston

Spastic pseudosclerosis (cortico-pallido-spinal degeneration), by Charles Davison (New York), Brain 1932: 55; 247–264 and Severe dementia associated with bilateral symmetrical degeneration of the thalamus, by K. Stern (From the National Hospital, Queen Square, London), Brain 1939: 62; 157–171.
Brain 2009 132: 2623-2626; doi:10.1093/brain/awp260 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific Commentary

Mark W. Head and James W. Ironside

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: discrete subtypes or a spectrum of disease?
Brain Advance Access published on September 16, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2627-2629; doi:10.1093/brain/awp225 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Article

Get checked abstract Wouter Wieling, Roland D. Thijs, N. van Dijk, Arthur A. M. Wilde, David G. Benditt, and J. Gert van Dijk

Symptoms and signs of syncope: a review of the link between physiology and clinical clues
Brain Advance Access published on July 8, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2630-2642; doi:10.1093/brain/awp179 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles

Get checked abstract Ignazio Cali, Rudolph Castellani, Amer Alshekhlee, Yvonne Cohen, Janis Blevins, Jue Yuan, Jan P. M. Langeveld, Piero Parchi, Jiri G. Safar, Wen-Quan Zou, and Pierluigi Gambetti

Co-existence of scrapie prion protein types 1 and 2 in sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: its effect on the phenotype and prion-type characteristics
Brain Advance Access published on September 4, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2643-2658; doi:10.1093/brain/awp196 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hedok Lee, Hanna Rosenmann, Joab Chapman, Peter B. Kingsley, Chen Hoffmann, Oren S. Cohen, Esther Kahana, Amos D. Korczyn, and Isak Prohovnik

Thalamo-striatal diffusion reductions precede disease onset in prion mutation carriers
Brain Advance Access published on March 24, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2680-2687; doi:10.1093/brain/awp064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract M. Anheim, B. Monga, M. Fleury, P. Charles, C. Barbot, M. Salih, J. P. Delaunoy, M. Fritsch, L. Arning, M. Synofzik, L. Schöls, J. Sequeiros, C. Goizet, C. Marelli, I. Le Ber, J. Koht, J. Gazulla, J. De Bleecker, M. Mukhtar, N. Drouot, L. Ali-Pacha, T. Benhassine, M. Chbicheb, A. M’Zahem, A. Hamri, B. Chabrol, J. Pouget, R. Murphy, M. Watanabe, P. Coutinho, M. Tazir, A. Durr, A. Brice, C. Tranchant, and M. Koenig

Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2: clinical, biological and genotype/phenotype correlation study of a cohort of 90 patients
Brain Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2688-2698; doi:10.1093/brain/awp211 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Susanna B. Park, Cindy S.-Y. Lin, Arun V. Krishnan, David Goldstein, Michael L. Friedlander, and Matthew C. Kiernan

Oxaliplatin-induced neurotoxicity: changes in axonal excitability precede development of neuropathy
Brain Advance Access published on September 10, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2712-2723; doi:10.1093/brain/awp219 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract C. S. Andreassen, J. Jakobsen, A. Flyvbjerg, and H. Andersen

Expression of neurotrophic factors in diabetic muscle—relation to neuropathy and muscle strength
Brain Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2724-2733; doi:10.1093/brain/awp208 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jonathan A. Knibb, Anna M. Woollams, John R. Hodges, and Karalyn Patterson

Making sense of progressive non-fluent aphasia: an analysis of conversational speech
Brain Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2734-2746; doi:10.1093/brain/awp207 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christian A. Kell, Katrin Neumann, Katharina von Kriegstein, Claudia Posenenske, Alexander W. von Gudenberg, Harald Euler, and Anne-Lise Giraud

How the brain repairs stuttering
Brain Advance Access published on August 26, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2747-2760; doi:10.1093/brain/awp185 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Myung-Whan Suh, Hyo-Jeong Lee, June Sic Kim, Chun Kee Chung, and Seung-Ha Oh

Speech experience shapes the speechreading network and subsequent deafness facilitates it
Brain Advance Access published on June 16, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2761-2771; doi:10.1093/brain/awp159 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Agnes Trebuchon-Da Fonseca, Eric Guedj, F-Xavier Alario, Virginie Laguitton, Olivier Mundler, Patrick Chauvel, and Catherine Liegeois-Chauvel

Brain regions underlying word finding difficulties in temporal lobe epilepsy
Brain Advance Access published on April 21, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2772-2784; doi:10.1093/brain/awp083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anne T. Berg, Gary W. Mathern, Richard A. Bronen, Robert K. Fulbright, Francis DiMario, Francine M. Testa, and Susan R. Levy

Frequency, prognosis and surgical treatment of structural abnormalities seen with magnetic resonance imaging in childhood epilepsy
Brain Advance Access published on July 28, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2785-2797; doi:10.1093/brain/awp187 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Imre Janszky, Johan Hallqvist, Torbjörn Tomson, Anders Ahlbom, Kenneth J. Mukamal, and Staffan Ahnve

Increased risk and worse prognosis of myocardial infarction in patients with prior hospitalization for epilepsy—The Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program
Brain Advance Access published on August 28, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2798-2804; doi:10.1093/brain/awp216 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract C. Helmstaedter and C. E. Elger

Chronic temporal lobe epilepsy: a neurodevelopmental or progressively dementing disease?
Brain Advance Access published on July 27, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2822-2830; doi:10.1093/brain/awp182 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Herbert Hildebrandt, Martina Mühlenhoff, Imke Oltmann-Norden, Iris Röckle, Hannelore Burkhardt, Birgit Weinhold, and Rita Gerardy-Schahn

Imbalance of neural cell adhesion molecule and polysialyltransferase alleles causes defective brain connectivity
Brain Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2831-2838; doi:10.1093/brain/awp117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Clare N. Gallagher, Keri L.H. Carpenter, Peter Grice, Duncan J. Howe, Andrew Mason, Ivan Timofeev, David K. Menon, Peter J. Kirkpatrick, John D. Pickard, Garnette R. Sutherland, and Peter J. Hutchinson

The human brain utilizes lactate via the tricarboxylic acid cycle: a ¹³C-labelled microdialysis and high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance study
Brain Advance Access published on August 20, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2839-2849; doi:10.1093/brain/awp202 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcus H. Heitger, Richard D. Jones, A. D. Macleod, Deborah L. Snell, Chris M. Frampton, and Tim J. Anderson

Impaired eye movements in post-concussion syndrome indicate suboptimal brain function beyond the influence of depression, malingering or intellectual ability
Brain Advance Access published on July 16, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2850-2870; doi:10.1093/brain/awp181 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract A. Quartarone, V. Rizzo, C. Terranova, F. Morgante, S. Schneider, N. Ibrahim, P. Girlanda, K. P. Bhatia, and J. C. Rothwell

Abnormal sensorimotor plasticity in organic but not in psychogenic dystonia
Brain Advance Access published on August 18, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2871-2877; doi:10.1093/brain/awp213 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jon Stone, A. Carson, R. Duncan, R. Coleman, R. Roberts, C. Warlow, C. Hibberd, G. Murray, R. Cull, A. Pelosi, J. Cavanagh, K. Matthews, R. Goldbeck, R. Smyth, J. Walker, A.D. MacMahon, and M. Sharpe

Symptoms ‘unexplained by organic disease’ in 1144 new neurology out-patients: how often does the diagnosis change at follow-up?
Brain Advance Access published on September 8, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2878-2888; doi:10.1093/brain/awp220 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Occasional Paper

Book Review

Pamela Heaton

Speaking about music and the music of speech
Brain Advance Access published on August 11, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 2897-2899; doi:10.1093/brain/awp204 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

Paolo Bernardi, Paolo Bonaldo, Nadir M. Maraldi, Luciano Merlini, and Patrizia Sabatelli

On the pathogenesis of collagen VI muscular dystrophies—Comment on article of Hicks et al.
Brain Advance Access published on March 17, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e121; doi:10.1093/brain/awp021 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Debbie Hicks, Anne Lampe, Steve Laval, Valérie Allamand, Cecilia Jimenez-Mallebrera, Maggie Walter, Francesco Muntoni, Susana Quijano-Roy, Pascale Richard, Volker Straub, Hanns Lochmüller, and Kate Bushby

Response to letter from Bernardi
Brain Advance Access published on March 17, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e122; doi:10.1093/brain/awp022 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. D. Craig

Disembodied hallucinatory voices: Comment on Sommer et al., 2008 Brain 131, 3169–77
Brain Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e123; doi:10.1093/brain/awp038 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iris E. Sommer and Kelly M. Diederen

Language production in the non-dominant hemisphere as a potential source of auditory verbal hallucinations
Brain Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e124; doi:10.1093/brain/awp040 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Z. Gan-Or, N. Giladi, and A. Orr-Urtreger

Differential phenotype in Parkinson's disease patients with severe versus mild GBA mutations
Brain Advance Access published on June 5, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e125; doi:10.1093/brain/awp161 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yasin Temel, Sonny Tan, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, and Trevor Sharp

Parkinson's disease, DBS and suicide: a role for serotonin?
Brain Advance Access published on June 24, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e126; doi:10.1093/brain/awp150 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valerie Voon, Paul Krack, Anthony E. Lang, Andres M. Lozano, Kathy Dujardin, Michael Schüpbach, Stephane Thobois, Filippo Tamma, Jan Herzog, Johan Samanta, Cynthia Kubu, Helene Rossignol, Yu-Yan Poon, Jean A. Saint-Cyr, Claire Ardouin, and Elena Moro

Reply: Parkinson's disease, DBS and suicide: a role for serotonin?
Brain Advance Access published on June 24, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e127; doi:10.1093/brain/awp151 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karen Lidzba, Marko Wilke, Martin Staudt, and Inge Krägeloh-Mann

Early plasticity versus early vulnerability: the problem of heterogeneous lesion types
Brain Advance Access published on August 6, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e128; doi:10.1093/brain/awp197 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

V. Anderson, M. Spencer-Smith, R. Leventer, L. Coleman, P. Anderson, J. Williams, Greenham, and R. Jacobs

Reply: Early plasticity versus early vulnerability: the problem of heterogeneous lesion mechanism
Brain Advance Access published on August 6, 2009
Brain 2009 132: e129; doi:10.1093/brain/awp199 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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