January 2008 Volume 4 Number 1
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FOCUS ON VASCULAR NEUROLOGY
The January issue of Nature Clinical Practice Neurology focuses on the
diagnosis, treatment and prevention of stroke and other cerebrovascular
diseases.
The Editorial, Viewpoint, Practice Point, Review and Case Study sections
will all feature articles on this important public health issue.
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EDITORIAL
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Opportunities to restore neurological function in stroke
Argye E Hillis
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VIEWPOINTS
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Does surgery have a role in the management of asymptomatic carotid artery
stenosis? Yes, but...
Vincent Thijs
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Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis-it's time to stop operating
Anne Abbott
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
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Research supports establishment of specialized TIA clinics
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Capsaicin facilitates pain-specific local anesthesia
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QoL is lower in female survivors of stroke even after adjustment for
prognostic factors
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Blood plasma biomarkers could predict Alzheimer's disease
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Early exposure to mercury-containing vaccines has no consistent effect
on neuropsychology
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Neurosonography-a useful bedside tool for strokologists
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Altered epigenetic mechanisms related to GABA synthesis identified in
schizophrenic brains
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Delaying viral neuroinvasion reduces lethality of West Nile virus
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Brain metabolic patterns correlate with symptom onset in preclinical HD
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Antibiotic improves outcome following acute stroke
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Spinal cord stimulation for pain relief in pediatric complex regional
pain syndrome type I
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Robot-assisted gait training shows promise in patients with MS
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Glutamatergic synapses undergo remodeling during AD progression
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PRACTICE POINTS
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Cardiovascular assessment of patients with ischemic stroke or TIA-which
test to order?
Marco R Di Tullio
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Triaging patients with transient ischemic attack-what can we learn from
diffusion-weighted imaging?
Shyam Prabhakaran
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Outcome in childhood cerebral venous thrombosis-new insights
Rebecca Ichord
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Is statin discontinuation an option in patients who have had a stroke?
James K Liao
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Anticoagulants for intracranial artery dissection without subarachnoid
hemorrhage-safe but not sound?
Rima M Dafer and Jose Biller
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REVIEWS
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Stroke and the female brain
Cheryl D Bushnell
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Dissections of brain-supplying arteries
Louis R Caplan
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Drug Insight: translating evidence on statin therapy into clinical
benefits
Nerses Sanossian and Bruce Ovbiagele
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CASE STUDY
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Lower-body parkinsonism: reconsidering the threshold for external
lumbar drainage
Alberto J Espay, Raj K Narayan, Andrew P Duker, Edwin T Barrett Jr and
Gabrielle de Courten-Myers
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Obesity
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