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Papers

• A double blind, randomised, parallel group study to investigate the dose equivalence of Dysport^® and Botox^®in the treatment of cervical dystonia

  (1 January, 1998)

  T Odergren, H Hjaltason, S Kaakkola, G Solders, J Hanko, C Fehling, R J Marttila, H Lundh, S Gedin, I Westergren, A Richardson, C Dott, H Cohen
• What is the optimal dose of botulinum toxin A in the treatment of cervical dystonia? Results of a double blind, placebo controlled, dose ranging study using Dysport^®

  (1 January, 1998)

  W Poewe, G Deuschl, A Nebe, E Feifel, J Wissel, R Benecke, K R Kessler, A O Ceballos-Baumann, A Ohly, W Oertel, G Künig
• Fallacies in the pathological confirmation of the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (1 January, 1998)

  John V Bowler, David G Munoz, Harold Merskey, Vladimir Hachinski
• Possible risk factors for primary adult onset dystonia: a case-control investigation by the Italian Movement Disorders Study Group (1 January, 1998)

  Giovanni Defazio, Alfredo Berardelli, Giovanni Abbruzzese, Vito Lepore, Vincenzo Coviello, Diomira Acquistapace, Livio Capus, Francesco Carella, Maria Teresa De Berardinis, Giuseppe Galardi, Paolo Girlanda, Silvio Maurri, Alberto Albanese, Laura Bertolasi, Rocco Liguori, Aroldo Rossi, Lucio Santoro, Gianni Tognoni, Paolo Livrea
• Modulation of primary orthostatic tremor by magnetic stimulation over the motor cortex (1 January, 1998)

  C H Tsai, J G Semmler, T E Kimber, G Thickbroom, R Stell, F L Mastaglia, P D Thompson
• A population study of apoE genotype at the age of 85: relation to dementia, cerebrovascular disease, and mortality (1 January, 1998)

  Ingmar Skoog, Camilla Hesse, Ólafur Aevarsson, Sten Landahl, Jan Wahlström, Pam Fredman, Kaj Blennow
• Chromosome 14 familial Alzheimer’s disease: the clinical and neuropathological characteristics of a family with a leucine→serine (L250S) substitution at codon 250 of the presenilin 1 gene (1 January, 1998)

  Richard J Harvey, David Ellison, John Hardy, Mike Hutton, Penelope K Roques, John Collinge, Nick C Fox, Martin N Rossor
• Exploratory treatment trials in multiple sclerosis using MRI: sample size calculations for relapsing-remitting and secondary progressive subgroups using placebo controlled parallel groups (1 January, 1998)

  N Tubridy, H J Ader, F Barkhof, A J Thompson, D H Miller
• Minor physical anomalies in familial and sporadic schizophrenia: the Maudsley family study (1 January, 1998)

  T D Griffiths, T Sigmundsson, N Takei, S Frangou, P B Birkett, T Sharma, A M Reveley, R M Murray
• Autosomal dominant pure spastic paraplegia: a clinical, paraclinical, and genetic study (1 January, 1998)

  J E Nielsen, K Krabbe, P Jennum, P Koefoed, L Neerup Jensen, K Fenger, H Eiberg, L Hasholt, L Werdelin, S A Sørensen
• Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6: genotype and phenotype in German kindreds (1 January, 1998)

  Ludger Schöls, Rejko Krüger, Georgios Amoiridis, Horst Przuntek, Jörg T Epplen, Olaf Riess
• Epidemiological study of Guillain-Barré syndrome in south east England (1 January, 1998)

  J H Rees, R D Thompson, N C Smeeton, R A C Hughes
• Mortality and survival in myasthenia gravis: a Danish population based study (1 January, 1998)

  P B Christensen, T S Jensen, I Tsiropoulos, T Sørensen, M Kjær, E Højer-Pedersen, M J K Rasmussen, E Lehfeldt
• Diagnostic value of sural nerve biopsy in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (1 January, 1998)

  D S M Molenaar, M Vermeulen, R de Haan
• Natural history of the spontaneous reperfusion of human cerebral infarcts as assessed by ^99mTc HMPAO SPECT

  (1 January, 1998)

  J V Bowler, J P H Wade, B E Jones, K S Nijran, T J Steiner
• Discrepancies between cerebral perfusion and metabolism after subarachnoid haemorrhage: a magnetic resonance approach (1 January, 1998)

  Jeremy Rowe, Andrew M Blamire, Zayne Domingo, Virginia Moody, Andrew Molyneux, James Byrne, Thomas Cadoux-Hudson, George Radda
• Helicobacter pylori infection: a risk factor for ischaemic cerebrovascular disease and carotid atheroma

  (1 January, 1998)

  Hugh S Markus, Mike A Mendall
• Prophylactic antiepileptic agents after head injury: a systematic review (1 January, 1998)

  Gill Schierhout, Ian Roberts