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by Maria Cordier, François-Xavier Borruat, Philippe Maeder, Patrik Michel A 74-year-old man with mild cognitive impairment since 2007 due to biopsy proven cerebral amyloid angiopathy, presented in January 2012 with complaints of progressive visual loss over 6 months. He was… Continue Reading

by Euphrosyni Koutsouraki et al. Demyelination in white matter tracts has been observed in experimental and human spinal cord injury but the precise pathophysiologic mechanisms still remain a matter of speculation. The cellular inflammatory response induced by spinal trauma is… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi With this December issue, NEUROPENEWS has published 12 issues in 2012: one year of presence in the Neuroweb panorama and for the EFNS web-linked fellows. So, it is the right time for a summary and self-examination.… Continue Reading

presented by Vanessa Levrat & Anastasia Zekeridou We report a case of a 76-year-old woman with a recurrent painful left ophthalmoplegia of obscure origin, with two episodes in two years.
The patient complains of pain in the left orbital area… Continue Reading

A 42-year-old woman came to our observation because of the subacute onset of abnormal movements in the oro-facial region. Family history was negative for neurological disorders. Her past medical history was remarkable only for spinal surgery (spinal stabilization L4-L5-S1). At… Continue Reading

A 69-year old previously healthy man presented in January 2011 with a two-week history of behavioural disturbances including anxiety, hypochondriac complaints and motor hyperactivity. Since the patient never had had any psychiatric symptoms his general practitioner chose to refer him… Continue Reading