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Informed decision making in MS, and the striatum in neurodegeneration
What's the role of the striatum, in changes in cognition and behaviour in neurodegeneration? Michael Hornberger, University of Cambridge, explains why it may be more pivotal than we currently think.And...
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Mortality and morbidity 15 years after hospital admission with mild head injury
Head injury is very common, and we know those admitted to hospital with a severe head injury have a high mortality rate in the proceeding year. However less is known about later mortality, and even...
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DBS in essential tremor, and genetic counselling for ALS
This month, genetic counselling for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Adriano Chiò, Turin ALS Expert Center, ‘Rita Levi Montalcini’ University of Turin, tells us what it can and can't do, who should...
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BNPA 2014: Neuropsychiatry of social knowledge and moral motivation
JNNP editor Alan Carson asks Roland Zahn, senior clinical lecturer, King's College London, about the neuroanatomy of moral behaviour, particularly his work into the neural mechanism of moral emotion in...
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HIV and multiple sclerosis: beginning to unravel a mystery
Julian Gold, professor in the department of neuroscience and trauma, Queen Mary, University of London, and senior staff specialist, Albion Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, discusses his paper...
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Can stress trigger Parkinson's? And new criteria for frontotemporal dementia...
Does emotional stress trigger Parkinson's disease? Andrew Lees, Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, talks us through the evidence so far.And Glenda Halliday, Neuroscience Research...
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BNPA 2014: TREM2 variants and risk of dementia
Chris Butler, MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the University of Oxford, talks to Catherine Slattery, Clinical Research Associate, Institute of Neurology, about her work...
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BNPA 2014: Joint hypermobilty and autonomic hyperactivity
Chis Butler, MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the University of Oxford, talks to Jessica Eccles, MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow, Brighton and Sussex Medical School,...
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BNPA 2014: Post-Ictal psychosis
Hugh Rickards, consultant in Neuropsychiatry and honorary reader in Neuropsychiatry at Birmingham University, talks to Georgy Pius, ST6 Trainee, North West Deanery, about his case-control study...
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Neurosurgical procedures for psychiatric illness
This month, how to safely and ethically carry out stereotactic surgery for psychiatric illness. Bart Nuttin, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leuven, has put together pragmatic guidelines,...
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Brain atrophy and disability progression in multiple sclerosis patients
Dr Robert Zivadinov, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, discusses his paper which aimed to identify MRI biomarkers associated...
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Advances in epilepsy surgery
Exciting recent and forthcoming advances will impact on the surgical management of epilepsy in the near future. Mark Nowell and John Duncan, both Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL...
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BNPA 2014: Schizophrenia and cognition
Cognitive impairment is generally considered and important facet of the schizophrenia syndrome but how fundamental is it? In this podcast Alan Carson discusses the question with Eileen Joyce,...
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Imaging outcomes for trials of remyelination in multiple sclerosis
Trials of potential neuroreparative agents are becoming more important in the spectrum of multiple sclerosis research. Appropriate imaging outcomes are required that are feasible from a time and...
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Education special: Peripheral nerve disease update
Ralph Gregory, secretary for the Association of British Neurologists and consultant neurologist in Dorset, gets an update on peripheral nerve disease research and practice from James Overell,...
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Education special: MS update
Ralph Gregory, secretary for the Association of British Neurologists and consultant neurologist in Dorset, gets an update on multiple sclerosis research and implications for practice from Neil...
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Diagnosing the dementias
This month, we get an update on the latest in clinically diagnosing the dementias, with a roundtable of experts convened by the Association of British Neurologists. Taking part are John Greene,...
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Diagnosing and treating neuromyelitis optica
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder with predilection for the optic nerves and spinal cord. Many recent advances, in particular, the discovery of NMO-IgG, an NMO-specific...
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Vitamin D, sunlight, and MS
October's JNNP takes another step towards demystifying the relationship between sunlight, vitamin D, and MS, featuring a paper which reveals sun exposure may have direct effects on neurodegeneration...
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Education special: Neurogenetics update
Ralph Gregory, secretary for the Association of British Neurologists and consultant neurologist in Dorset, gets an update on neurogenetics research and implications for practice from Nick Wood,...
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