Accessible online at: www.karger.com/ned Suicide is an avoidable tragedy. The clinicians’ interest and vigilance are the most potent available deterrents. Individuals in high-risk groups can be identified, and practical, effective interventions are available. A number of neurological disorders have been identified among risk factors for suicide, so it behooves neurologists to be mindful of thes...

In this review of recent advances in the sub-specialty, we briefly discuss the current understanding of causes, presentations and evidence-based treatment of the most common disorders seen in clinical neuropsychiatry. Traumatic and acquired brain injury, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, sleep disorders and delirium are all considered, focusing on the most cont...

M. COJOCARU, MD, PhDa; Inimioara Mihaela COJOCARU, MD, PhDb; Isabela SILOSI, MD, PhDc aPhysiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, ”Titu Maiorescu” University, Bucharest, Romania bNeurology Clinic, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, “Colentina” Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania cImmunology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova, Romania EDITORIALS Mædica a Jo...

A paraneoplastic neurological disorder (PND) may be defined as one in which a particular neoplasm associates with a remote but specific effect on the nervous system more frequently than would be expected by chance1. The range of tumours that can provoke these disorders is relatively limited. The commonest is small cell lung tumour, where a prospective study of 150 cases detected a paraneoplasti...

Neurological diseases are defined as an inappropriate function of the peripheral or central nervous system due to impaired electrical impulses throughout the brain and/or nervous system that may present with heterogeneous symptoms according to the parts of the system involved in these pathologic processes. Growing evidence on genetic components of neurological disease have been collected during...