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JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES R Journal of Neurological Sciences 153 (1998) 301-302 Contents of Volume 153 Impaired modulation of tonic muscle activities and H-reflexes Number 1 — 9 December 1997 in the soleus muscle during standing in patients with Parkinson’s disease R. Hayashi, T. Tokuda, K. Tako, N. Yanagisawa (Japan) Unusual sensory disturbance in the thoracic region after Basic Section stroke: relationship to cheiro-oral and cheiro-oral-pedal Research articles syndrome Intrathecal administration of a new nitric oxide donor, NOC- Y. Yasuda, T. Watanabe, H. Tanaka, |. Akiguchi, J. 18, produces acute thermal hyperalgesia in the rat Kimura, M. Kameyama (Japan) T. Inoue, T. Mashimo, S. Shibuta, |. Yoshiya (Japan) Free radicals and superoxide dismutase in blood of patients Reproducibility and reliability of middle cerebral artery occlu- with Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia sion using a silicone-coated suture (Koizumi) in rats Y. Ihara, T. Hayabara, K. Sasaki,Y . Fujisawa, R. Kawada, K. Takano, T. Tatlisumak, A.G. Bergmann, D.G. Gibson T. Yamamoto, Y. Nakashima, S. Yoshimune, M. Kawai, M. lil, M. Fisher (USA) Kibata, S. Kuroda (Japan) The anticonvulsant properties of antisense c-fos oligodeoxy- Prominent sensory and autonomic disturbances in familial nucleotides in kainic acid-induced seizures amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with a Gly93Ser mutation in P.K. Panegyres, J. Hughes (UK) the SOD1 gene Brain-derived neurotrophic factor fails to arrest neuromuscu- A. Kawata, S. Kato, H. Hayashi, S. Hirai (Japan) lar disorders in the paralysé mouse mutant, a model of Lack of evidence for HTLV tax-rex DNA in motor neurone motoneuron disease disease B. Blondet, M. Murawsky, L.J. Houenou, L. Li, A. Ait- W.D. Andrews, A. Al-Chalabi, J.A. Garson (UK) Ikhlef, Q. Yan, F. Rieger (France, USA) Characterization of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from pa- SNX-111, a novel, presynaptic N-type calcium channel tients with Guillain-Barré syndrome antagonist, is neuroprotective against focal cerebral is- M. Nishimura, M. Nukina, S. Kuroki, H. Obayashi, M. chemia in rabbits Ohta, J. Jun Ma, T. Saida, T. Uchiyama (Japan) M.A. Perez-Pinzon, M.A. Yenari, G.H. Sun, D.M. Kunis, G.K. Steinberg (USA) Short Reports Clinical Section New missense mutation in the alpha-sarcoglycan gene in a Research articles Japanese patient with severe childhood autosomal reces- Changes in nitrite and nitrate (NO, /NO,) levels in cere- sive muscular dystrophy with incomplete alpha-sar- brospinal fluid of patients with multiple sclerosis coglycan deficiency T. Yamashita, Y. Ando, K. Obayashi, M. Uchino, M. Ando |. Higuchi, H. lwaki, H. Kawai, T. Endo, M. Kunishige, H. (Japan) Fukunaga, M. Nakagawa, K. Arimura, M. Osame (Japan) Changes in glutamate receptor subunit composition in hip- Tomaculous neuropathy in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease pocampus and cortex in patients with refractory epilepsy with myelin protein zero gene mutation E. Grigorenko, S. Glazier, W. Bell, M. Tytell, E. Nosel, T. N. Tachi, N. Kozuka, K. Ohya, S. Chiba, K. Sasaki Pons, S.A. Deadwyler (USA) (Japan) Familial ALS is associated with mutations in all exons of SOD1: a novel mutation in exon 3 (Gly72Ser) Letters to the Editor RW. Orrell, S.L. Marklund, J.S. deBelleroche (UK, Antiplatelet therapy to prevent stroke: risk of brain hemor- Sweden) rhage and efficacy in atrial fibrillation The association between polymorphisms in the cytochrome O. Benavente, R.G. Hart (USA) P-450 2D6 gene and Parkinson's disease: a case-control West Indian Amblyopia study and meta-analysis F. Clifford Rose (UK) S.J. McCann, S.M. Pond, K.M. James, D.G. Le Couteur (Australia) T helper type 2 like cytokine responses to peptides from PO Replies to Letters and P2 myelin proteins during the recovery phase of Reply to Dr G. Hart and Dr O. Benavente’s letter to the editor Guillain-Barré syndrome H.-C. Diener, A. Lowenthal (Germany, Belgium) C. Dahle, C. Ekerfelt, M. Vrethem, M. Samuelsson, J. Reply to Dr Clifford Rose’s letter to the editor Ernerudh (Sweden) G. Plant (UK) 302 Contents of Volume 153 News and Notes 114 Nervous system Lyme disease J.J. Halperin (USA) Abstracts Disorders of excessive daytime sleepiness—an update The Conscious Brain: Normal and Abnormal B. El-Ad, A.D. Korczyn (Israel) Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment of neurological autoimmune diseases M. Stangel, H.-P. Hartung, P. Marx, R. Gold (Germany, Number 2 — 8 January 1998 Austria) Clinical applications of quantitative sensory testing (QST) Editorials R. Zaslansky, D. Yarnitsky (Israel) Hurrahs and fond farewells from your editors! Immunomodulating therapeutic approaches for multiple J.F. Toole sclerosis The Journal of the Neurological Sciences D.M. Karussis, O. Abramsky (Israel) M. Critchley Recent developments in the molecular genetics of mito- The JNS: a Tribute chondrial disorders J. Walton (Lord Walton of Detchant) M.B. Graeber, U. Muller (Germany) Editorial Neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes W.B. Matthews E.J. Dropcho (USA) Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Neurological complications of pregnancy GW. Bruyn L. Bodis, Z. Szupera, M. Pierantozzi, F. Bandini, K. Sas, L. Kovacs, L. Vécsei, |. Bodis (Hungary, Italy, USA) Clinical Section Review articles 1998 Reviewers Genetics of stroke—a review D. Rastenyté, J. Tuomilehto, C. Sarti (Finland) Author Index Internal carotid artery dissection: an update B. Guillon, C. Lévy, M.-G. Bousser (France) Subject Index Central nervous system vasculitis C. Fieschi, M. Rasura, A. Anzini, M. Beccia (italy) Contents of Volume 153 Treatable and reversible dementias: an update C. Piccini, L. Bracco, L. Amaducci (Italy)