…Recommendations PD diagnostics Clinicians are not to use SPECT, PET, MRI and MR volumetry in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. These modalities remain at the disposal of those undertaking PD…
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…a distinct or ‘idiopathic’ disease, a controversial view well expressed in The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Cord, Nerves and their appendages in 1855 (dedicated to Marshall Hall),…
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…determinant. Nonsense, frameshifting and truncating mutations are associated with more severe disease.2 Those with mutations that cannot be identified tend to have milder disease.11 With sporadic NF2 it is more…
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…effective and clinically validated measurement and prediction tools for patients suffering from brain diseases. Affecting around 8.5 million people worldwide, the incidence of Parkinson’s disease continues to rise and is…
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…and functional deficits. Dr Bartel’s research demonstrates that brain volume at onset has strong predictive value of disease outcomes. For example, brain volume at onset predicts disease severity and disease…
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…Zivelonghi, from the Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement sciences at the University of Verona, Italy, gave a first presentation on SARS-CoV-2 infection. She discussed how COVID-19, a disease that…
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…Mayzent significantly reduced the risk of disease progression, including physical disability and cognitive decline2,3 Read more here. References National MS Society Brochure. Disease Modifying Therapies for MS. http://www.nationalmssociety.org/NationalMSSociety/media/MSNationalFiles/Brochures/Brochure-The-MS-Disease-Modifying-Medications.pdf. Accessed January…
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…figures, like PK Thomas in peripheral nerve disease, and John Newsom-Davies in diseases of the neuromuscular junction, and Ian McDonald who was the world leader in the field of multiple…
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