Volume 20 Issue 3 | PN June 2020 Contents

Credit: THOMAS DEERINCK, NCMIR / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Hippocampus tissue. Light micrograph of a sagittal (side view) section through the hippocampus of the brain showing the nerve cells within it. The hippocampus is a structure of the limbic system of the brain. There is a hippocampus in each cerebral hemisphere, and they are thought to be responsible for spatial awareness and the formation of memories. Different structures have been stained different colours: the nuclei of cells are blue, neurofilaments are purple and glial cells are red. Neurofilaments are proteins found in the axons (output processes) of nerve cells. Glial cells (neuroglia) are cells that support and nourish nerve cells. Magnification: x160 when printed 10cm wide.

This article has been chosen by the Editor to be of special interest or importance and is freely available online.

This article has been made freely available online under the BMJ Journals open access scheme. See http://authors.bmj.com/open-access/

This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics

www.publicationethics.org.uk

PracticalneurologyComplementing the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

pn.bmj.com

June 2020 Volume 20 Issue 3

Volum

e 20 Issue 3 Pages 185–258PR

AC

TICA

L NEU

RO

LOG

Y

June 2020

20

3

IN THIS ISSUE

Neurosarcoidosis

Exercise and dementia

Vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy

Management of mild traumatic brain injury

Patent foramen ovale

Hirayama disease

My dad and progressive supranuclear palsy

Prison epilepsy clinic

Giant intracranial aneurysm waterhammer effect

Twitchy about fasciculation

Editors’ commentary185 Highlights from this issue

P E M Smith, G N Fuller

Editorial186 Vagus nerve stimulation for

epilepsyJ Duncan

187 Targeting sedentary behaviour in neurological diseaseM Busse, G Ramdharry

Review 189 Vagus nerve stimulation for

drug-resistant epilepsyL Pérez-Carbonell, H Faulkner, S Higgins, M Koutroumanidis, G Leschziner

197 Neurosarcoidosis: clinical manifestations, investigation and treatmentD P Kidd

208 Management of mild traumatic brain injuryA v Gils, J Stone, K Welch, L R Davidson, D Kerslake, D Caesar, L McWhirter, A Carson

How to do it216 COVID-19: switching to

remote neurology outpatient consultationsA Nitkunan, D Paviour, T Nitkunan

What neurologists need to219 Patent foramen ovale

V Alakbarzade, T Keteepe-Arachi, N Karsan, R Ray, A C Pereira

How to understand it226 Exercise and dementia

preventionJ Alty, M Farrow, K Lawler

A difficult case 232 Hirayama disease causing hand

tremor on neck flexionT H Lui

A patient that changed my practice234 Out of sight: a lesson in drug

errorsS T Lim, T Yates, D Liang, H Angus-Leppan

Image of the moment236 Giant intracranial aneurysm

water-hammer effectA A Dmytriw, A Alrashed, V XD Yang

237 Seeding of infection in previously asymptomatic meningiomaE Christopher, F C Moreton, A Torgersen, P Foley

Test yourself239 Two sisters with myoclonus and

ataxiaM Pereira, J Durães, M do C Macário

Neurological rarities243 Facial myokymia in inherited

peripheral nerve hyperexcitability syndromeC G Camelo, A M S Silva, C A M Moreno, C Matsui-Júnior, C O Heise, J L Pedroso, E Zanoteli

246 Autoimmune encephalitis associated with Ma2 antibodies and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapyS Lyons, R Joyce, P Moynagh, L O’Donnell, S Blazkova, T J Counihan

Neuromythology249 Twitchy about fasciculation

M R Baker, T L Williams

251 ‘Fasciculations’: linguistic slip or judicious advance?J Bashford

Me and my neurological illness252 My dad and progressive

supranuclear palsy (PSP)H Angus-Leppan

on February 22, 2022 by guest. P

rotected by copyright.http://pn.bm

j.com/

Pract N

eurol: first published as on 1 May 2020. D

ownloaded from

Neurological letter from254 Prison epilepsy clinic

M Esposito, M Pierri, M Strinati, P E M Smith

Book club256 ‘Educated’ by Tara Westover

J Ellis

Carphology257 Carphology

R H Thomas

ABN News258 ABN Annual Meeting 2020, 15–16

October, Bicc, BournemouthJ Lawrence

on February 22, 2022 by guest. P

rotected by copyright.http://pn.bm

j.com/

Pract N

eurol: first published as on 1 May 2020. D

ownloaded from