Table of contents

Short reports

• The role of the PTPRC (CD45) mutation in the development of multiple sclerosis in the North West region of the United Kingdom (1 July, 2003)

  R S Nicholas, J Partridge, R P Donn, C Hawkins, M D Boggild
• Interferon beta in multiple sclerosis: experience in a British specialist multiple sclerosis centre (1 July, 2003)

  B D Dubois, E Keenan, B E Porter, R Kapoor, P Rudge, A J Thompson, D H Miller, G Giovannoni
• MRI lesion volume heterogeneity in primary progressive MS in relation with axonal damage and brain atrophy (1 July, 2003)

  D Pelletier, S J Nelson, J Oh, J P Antel, M Kita, S S Zamvil, D E Goodkin
• Low leucocyte myeloperoxidase activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (1 July, 2003)

  G Ramsaransing, A Teelken, V M Prokopenko, AV Arutjunyan, J De Keyser
• Olfactory deficits and sleep disturbances in Parkinson’s disease: a case–control survey (1 July, 2003)

  J M Henderson, Y Lu, S Wang, H Cartwright, G M Halliday
• Low vitamin B-12 status in confirmed Alzheimer’s disease as revealed by serum holotranscobalamin (1 July, 2003)

  H Refsum, A D Smith
• Similarity and disparity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia in MR volumetric abnormalities of the hippocampus-amygdala complex (1 July, 2003)

  J S Kwon, Y-W Shin, C-W Kim, Y I Kim, T Youn, M H Han, K-H Chang, J-J Kim
• Alterations of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in atypical Pick’s disease without Pick bodies (1 July, 2003)

  T Odawara, K Shiozaki, E Iseki, H Hino, K Kosaka
• Genetically confirmed clinical Huntington’s disease with no observable cell loss (1 July, 2003)

  M Caramins, G Halliday, E McCusker, R J Trent
• Apolipoprotein E genotypes and clinical outcome in Guillain-Barré syndrome (1 July, 2003)

  J Pritchard, R A C Hughes, J H Rees, H J Willison, J A R Nicoll
• Atypical herpes type 2 encephalitis associated with normal MRI imaging (1 July, 2003)

  N A Harrison, B K MacDonald, G Scott, R Kapoor
• Wallerian degeneration of the inferior cerebellar peduncle depicted by diffusion weighted imaging (1 July, 2003)

  K Yamada, O Kizu, H Ito, H Nakamura, S Yuen, K Yoshikawa, K Shiga, T Nishimura
• Influence of age on the association between primary hemifacial spasm and arterial hypertension (1 July, 2003)

  G Defazio, D Martino, M S Aniello, G Masi, G Logroscino, G Manobianca, M La Stilla, P Livrea
• Vocal fold motion impairment in patients with multiple system atrophy: evaluation of its relationship with swallowing function (1 July, 2003)

  R Higo, N Tayama, T Watanabe, T Nitou, S Takeuchi
• The effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation on movement selection (1 July, 2003)

  Y H Sohn, A Kaelin-Lang, M Hallett
• Informed consent in trials for neurological emergencies: the example of subarachnoid haemorrhage (1 July, 2003)

  R Schats, E H Brilstra, G J E Rinkel, A Algra, J van Gijn
• Brain stem and cerebellar dysfunction after lumbar spinal fluid drainage: case report (1 July, 2003)

  J Bloch, L Regli
• Prolonged survival in motor neuron disease: a descriptive study of the King’s database 1990–2002 (1 July, 2003)

  M R Turner, M J Parton, C E Shaw, P N Leigh, A Al-Chalabi
• Autoantibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase in downbeat nystagmus (1 July, 2003)

  G Antonini, R Nemni, F Giubilei, F Gragnani, V Ceschin, S Morino, E Bucci, N Accornero
• Detection of Staphylococcus aureus by 16S rRNA directed in situ hybridisation in a patient with a brain abscess caused by small colony variants

  (1 July, 2003)

  F Kipp, W Ziebuhr, K Becker, V Krimmer, N Höβ, G Peters, C von Eiff