Neurology Updates

Nodding syndrome (NS) is a neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities of East Africa.…

Epilepsies affect around 65 million people worldwide and are clinically a heterogeneous group of neurological disorders. Despite strong evidence for…

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a rare but very important condition characterized by a sudden decrease in the platelet count of more than…

It was l suggested a long time ago, that ALS is rather a cortical than a spinal disease. The work of Heiko Braak and collaborators has demonstrated…

There are increasing close links between palliative care and neurology.  The European Association for Palliative Care has a close relationship with…

Antibodies to leucine-rich glioma-inactivated 1 (LGI1) are associated with faciobrachial dystonic seizures (FBDS) and limbic encephalitis. Although…

Classical trigeminal neuralgia is a rare painful chronic disorder. Carbamazepine and oxcarbazepine are first line treatments and act by blocking…

Dear colleagues, 

we would like to drive your attention to the recent developments in Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Two different approaches (use of…

In the past years multiple publications have focused on the immunological etiology of narcolepsy. Despite the extremely tight association with HLA…

Hereditary transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis (hATTR) is a devastating, progressive and ultimately fatal genetic disease with limited treatment…

On 28th February, the world celebrates the Rare Disease Day 2017, sponsored by Eurordis.

Advances in understanding memory mechanisms have crucial implications for cognitive neurology, and it is very good news that current studies combining…