Despite the learning opportunities afforded by on-call experiences, high associated workloads often contribute to trainee dissatisfaction. High workloads can also result in delayed decision-making, ...

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) has long been considered as a variant of multiple sclerosis (MS) rather than a distinct disease. This concept changed with the discovery of serum antibodies (Ab) against ...

Objective Dysfunction of the blood–nerve barrier (BNB) plays important roles in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). The aim of the present ...

OBJECTIVE To describe a clock drawing task (CLOX) designed to elicit executive impairment and discriminate it from non-executive constructional failure. SUBJECTS 90 elderly subjects were studied (45 ...

Functional movement disorders (FMD) are proposed to reflect a specific problem with voluntary control of movement, despite normal intent to move and an intact neural capacity for movement. In many ...

Background Incomplete attack remission is the main cause of disability in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD). Apheresis therapies such as plasma exchange and ...

Background In the Phase 3 OPTIMUM study ([NCT02425644][1]), patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) treated with ponesimod (20 mg) had greater reduction in the annualized relapse rate ...

Background In certain cases, psychosis may have underlying organic causes that are identifiable by neuroimaging. However, due to uncertain estimates of the prevalence of treatable lesions in psychotic ...

Background Evidence on preventing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is challenging to interpret due to varying study designs with heterogeneous endpoints and credibility. We completed a systematic review and ...

Background Functional neurological disorder (FND) is characterised by neurological symptoms, such as seizures and abnormal movements. Despite its significance to patients, the clinical features of ...

Objective A substantial part of non-traumatic intracerebral haemorrhages (ICH) arises from a macrovascular cause, but there is little guidance on selection of patients for additional diagnostic ...

Biography Dr Lucy Vanes is a lecturer in Neuroscience and Psychology at the Department of Neuroimaging, King’s College London. She completed her PhD in 2017, studying the neural correlates of ...