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Editorial Back

Alastair Compston
Editorial
Brain 2009 132: 1411-1412; doi:10.1093/brain/awp139 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

From The Archives Back

Alastair Compston
Evaluation and management of gliomas of the anterior visual pathways, by N. R. Miller, W. J. Iliff and W. R. Green (From the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA) Brain 1974: 97; 743–754; and The biological and clinical behaviour of pilocytic astrocytomas of the optic pathways, by Adam Borit and Edward P. Richardson Jr (From the CS Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology of the Department of Pathology and the Neurology service of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Departments of Neurology-Neuropathology, Ophthalmology and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) Brain 1982: 105; 161–187.
Brain 2009 132: 1413-1416; doi:10.1093/brain/awp140 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific Commentary Back

James W. Fawcett
Recovery from spinal cord injury: regeneration, plasticity and rehabilitation
Brain Advance Access published on May 8, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1417-1418; doi:10.1093/brain/awp121 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Article Back

Arne May
Morphing voxels: the hype around structural imaging of headache patients
Brain Advance Access published on May 14, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1419-1425; doi:10.1093/brain/awp116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Articles Back

Irin C. Maier, Ronaldo M. Ichiyama, Grégoire Courtine, Lisa Schnell, Igor Lavrov, V. Reggie Edgerton, and Martin E. Schwab
Differential effects of anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment and treadmill training in rats with incomplete spinal cord injury
Brain Advance Access published on April 16, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1426-1440; doi:10.1093/brain/awp085 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Paul D. Marasco, Aimee E. Schultz, and Todd A. Kuiken
Sensory capacity of reinnervated skin after redirection of amputated upper limb nerves to the chest
Brain Advance Access published on April 15, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1441-1448; doi:10.1093/brain/awp082 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Ali Mehanna, Bibhudatta Mishra, Nina Kurschat, Christian Schulze, Shan Bian, Gabriele Loers, Andrey Irintchev, and Melitta Schachner
Polysialic acid glycomimetics promote myelination and functional recovery after peripheral nerve injury in mice
Brain Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1449-1462; doi:10.1093/brain/awp128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur, Xavier Drouot, Patrick Cunin, Rémy Bruckert, Hélène Lepetit, Alain Créange, Pierre Wolkenstein, Patrick Maison, Yves Keravel, and Jean-Paul Nguyen
Motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of refractory peripheral neuropathic pain
Brain Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1463-1471; doi:10.1093/brain/awp035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Ana Isabel de la Llave-Rincón, Josué Fernández-Carnero, María Luz Cuadrado, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, and Juan A. Pareja
Bilateral widespread mechanical pain sensitivity in carpal tunnel syndrome: evidence of central processing in unilateral neuropathy
Brain Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1472-1479; doi:10.1093/brain/awp050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alessia Melani, Sara Cipriani, Maria Giuliana Vannucchi, Daniele Nosi, Chiara Donati, Paola Bruni, Maria Grazia Giovannini, and Felicita Pedata
Selective adenosine A2a receptor antagonism reduces JNK activation in oligodendrocytes after cerebral ischaemia
Brain Advance Access published on April 9, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1480-1495; doi:10.1093/brain/awp076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Karolina Kolodziejczyk, Nicola B. Hamilton, Anna Wade, Ragnhildur Káradóttir, and David Attwell
The effect of N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate and N-acetyl-aspartate on white matter oligodendrocytes
Brain Advance Access published on April 21, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1496-1508; doi:10.1093/brain/awp087 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Michael W. Ronellenfitsch, Daniel P. Brucker, Michael C. Burger, Stefan Wolking, Felix Tritschler, Johannes Rieger, Wolfgang Wick, Michael Weller, and Joachim P. Steinbach
Antagonism of the mammalian target of rapamycin selectively mediates metabolic effects of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibition and protects human malignant glioma cells from hypoxia-induced cell death
Brain Advance Access published on May 4, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1509-1522; doi:10.1093/brain/awp093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Aurélie Tchoghandjian, Carla Fernandez, Carole Colin, Ikbale El Ayachi, Brigitte Voutsinos-Porche, Frédéric Fina, Didier Scavarda, Marie-Dominique Piercecchi-Marti, Dominique Intagliata, L’Houcine Ouafik, Caroline Fraslon-Vanhulle, and Dominique Figarella-Branger
Pilocytic astrocytoma of the optic pathway: a tumour deriving from radial glia cells with a specific gene signature
Brain Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1523-1535; doi:10.1093/brain/awp048 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marinos C. Dalakas, Goran Rakocevic, Jens Schmidt, Mohammad Salajegheh, Beverly McElroy, Michael O. Harris-Love, Joseph A. Shrader, Ellen W. Levy, James Dambrosia, Robert L. Kampen, David A. Bruno, and Allan D. Kirk
Effect of Alemtuzumab (CAMPATH 1-H) in patients with inclusion-body myositis
Brain Advance Access published on May 19, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1536-1544; doi:10.1093/brain/awp104 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

John Vissing, Morten Duno, Marianne Schwartz, and Ronald G. Haller
Splice mutations preserve myophosphorylase activity that ameliorates the phenotype in McArdle disease
Brain Advance Access published on May 11, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1545-1552; doi:10.1093/brain/awp065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tuula Lönnqvist, Anders Paetau, Leena Valanne, and Helena Pihko
Recessive twinkle mutations cause severe epileptic encephalopathy
Brain Advance Access published on March 20, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1553-1562; doi:10.1093/brain/awp045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric Marsh, Carl Fulp, Ernest Gomez, Ilya Nasrallah, Jeremy Minarcik, Jyotsna Sudi, Susan L. Christian, Grazia Mancini, Patricia Labosky, William Dobyns, Amy Brooks-Kayal, and Jeffrey A. Golden
Targeted loss of Arx results in a developmental epilepsy mouse model and recapitulates the human phenotype in heterozygous females
Brain Advance Access published on May 12, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1563-1576; doi:10.1093/brain/awp107 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anne Kjersti Erichsen, Jeanette Koht, Asbjørg Stray-Pedersen, Michael Abdelnoor, and Chantal M. E. Tallaksen
Prevalence of hereditary ataxia and spastic paraplegia in southeast Norway: a population-based study
Brain Advance Access published on March 31, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1577-1588; doi:10.1093/brain/awp056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cyril Goizet, Amir Boukhris, Alexandra Durr, Christian Beetz, Jeremy Truchetto, Christelle Tesson, Maria Tsaousidou, Sylvie Forlani, Lucie Guyant-Maréchal, Bertrand Fontaine, João Guimarães, Bertrand Isidor, Olivier Chazouillères, Dominique Wendum, Djamel Grid, Françoise Chevy, Patrick F. Chinnery, Paula Coutinho, Jean-Philippe Azulay, Imed Feki, Fanny Mochel, Claude Wolf, Chokri Mhiri, Andrew Crosby, Alexis Brice, and Giovanni Stevanin
CYP7B1 mutations in pure and complex forms of hereditary spastic paraplegia type 5
Brain Advance Access published on May 12, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1589-1600; doi:10.1093/brain/awp073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marie Monet-Leprêtre, Boris Bardot, Barbara Lemaire, Valérie Domenga, Ophélia Godin, Martin Dichgans, Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, Michel Cohen-Tannoudji, Hugues Chabriat, and Anne Joutel
Distinct phenotypic and functional features of CADASIL mutations in the Notch3 ligand binding domain
Brain Advance Access published on March 17, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1601-1612; doi:10.1093/brain/awp049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Laura Flinn, Heather Mortiboys, Katrin Volkmann, Reinhard W. Köster, Phillip W. Ingham, and Oliver Bandmann
Complex I deficiency and dopaminergic neuronal cell loss in parkin-deficient zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Brain Advance Access published on May 12, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1613-1623; doi:10.1093/brain/awp108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefan Klöppel, Bogdan Draganski, Hartwig R. Siebner, Sarah J. Tabrizi, Cornelius Weiller, and Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Functional compensation of motor function in pre-symptomatic Huntington's disease
Brain Advance Access published on April 15, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1624-1632; doi:10.1093/brain/awp081 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Hillel Aviezer, Shlomo Bentin, Ran R. Hassin, Wendy S. Meschino, Jeanne Kennedy, Sonya Grewal, Sherali Esmail, Sharon Cohen, and Morris Moscovitch
Not on the face alone: perception of contextualized face expressions in Huntington's disease
Brain Advance Access published on May 18, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1633-1644; doi:10.1093/brain/awp067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. Goldenberg and J. Spatt
The neural basis of tool use
Brain Advance Access published on April 7, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1645-1655; doi:10.1093/brain/awp080 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Yogarajah, N. K. Focke, S. Bonelli, M. Cercignani, J. Acheson, G. J. M. Parker, D. C. Alexander, A. W. McEvoy, M. R. Symms, M. J. Koepp, and J. S. Duncan
Defining Meyer's loop–temporal lobe resections, visual field deficits and diffusion tensor tractography
Brain Advance Access published on May 21, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1656-1668; doi:10.1093/brain/awp114 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Janet H. Bultitude, Robert D. Rafal, and Alexandra List
Prism adaptation reverses the local processing bias in patients with right temporo-parietal junction lesions
Brain Advance Access published on May 4, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1669-1677; doi:10.1093/brain/awp096 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Book Review Back

James le Fanu
The muddle of embodiment
Brain Advance Access published on March 2, 2009
Brain 2009 132: 1678-1681; doi:10.1093/brain/awp019 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

Leonardo Bonilha and Julius Fridriksson
Subcortical damage and white matter disconnection associated with non-fluent speech
Brain Advance Access published on August 22, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e108; doi:10.1093/brain/awn200 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Devos, P. Jissendi Tchofo, Isabelle Vuillaume, Alain Destée, Stephanie Batey, John Burn, and Patrick F. Chinnery
Clinical features and natural history of neuroferritinopathy caused by the 458dupA FTL mutation
Brain Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e109; doi:10.1093/brain/awn274 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   Creative Commons License OPEN ACCESS  

Inge Bramsen
Can CBT substantially change grey matter volume in chronic fatigue syndrome?
Brain Advance Access published on August 29, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e110; doi:10.1093/brain/awn207 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Floris P. de Lange, Anda Koers, Joke S. Kalkman, Gijs Bleijenberg, Peter Hagoort, Jos W. M. van der Meer, and Ivan Toni
Reply to: can CBT substantially change grey matter volume in chronic fatigue syndrome?
Brain Advance Access published on August 30, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e111; doi:10.1093/brain/awn208 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antoinette Maassen VanDenBrink, Dirk Jan Duncker, and Pramod R. Saxena
Migraine headache is not associated with cerebral or meningeal vasodilatation—a 3T magnetic resonance angiography study
Brain Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e112; doi:10.1093/brain/awn259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

G. G. Schoonman and M. D. Ferrari
Reply to: Migraine headache is not associated with cerebral or meningeal vasodilatation—a 3T magnetic resonance angiography study
Brain Advance Access published on October 14, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e113; doi:10.1093/brain/awn260 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jason D. Warren and Jonathan D. Rohrer
Ravel's last illness: a unifying hypothesis
Brain Advance Access published on October 17, 2008
Brain 2009 132: e114; doi:10.1093/brain/awn245 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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