Welcome to the Neurological Conditions Specialist Collection September 2010 update

This bulletin aims to update you on:

• Interesting items recently added to the collection
• The latest journal articles as highlighted by our Clinical Lead and Topic Advisors
• Upcoming events of interest
• What the project team are currently doing

6^th September – Launch of AEU Epilepsy 2010

The next Annual Evidence Update on Epilepsy will be released on September 6th. This will be our third update on Epilepsy, and will highlight the best evidence published since the previous update in mid-2009.

Annual evidence updates highlight the best evidence published in the last year in the diagnosis and management of specific conditions.

Please visit our Annual Evidence Updates pages for more Neurological Conditions updates as well as links to other evidence updates of interest.

Editor’s Picks

The following items have been selected as highlights by our Clinical Lead:

• A 12-year population-based study of psychosis in Parkinson Disease
• Frequency and prognosis of convulsive status epilepticus of different causes: a systematic review
• Suicide-related events in patients treated with antiepileptic drugs
• Acute and preventive pharmacologic treatment of cluster headache
• Management of thrombolysis-associated symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage
• Timing and course of clinical response to intravenous immunoglobulin in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

Recent additions

Below is a selection from several recent additions to the website:

Guidelines:

NICE

• Motor neurone disease: the use of non-invasive ventilation in the management of motor neurone disease
• Transient loss of consciousness (‘blackouts’) management in adults and young people

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews:

• Statins for the treatment of dementia

Database of Reviews of Effects:

• A systematic review of the effectiveness of treadmill training for children with cerebral palsy
• Botulinum neurotoxins for post-stroke spasticity in adults: a systematic review
• Bound for success: a systematic review of constraint-induced movement therapy in children with cerebral palsy supports improved arm and hand use
• Multiple sclerosis and exercise in people with minimal gait impairment: a review

Full list of items added in August

Forthcoming Events

Below is a selection of forthcoming events for September and October. See all forthcoming events here. If you have an event you would like us to highlight in the neurological conditions specialist collection, please contact us.

September 2010

2nd:                  Cambridge Memory Disorders Workshop (Cambridge, England)

2nd:                  Paediatric Epilepsy Training 2 (PET) Days 1&2 (Oxford, England)

8th-10th:           SBNS Autumn Meeting 2010 (Chelsea Football Club, London, England)

9th:                   Course: Certificate in brain injury studies (until 28th March 2012 - mostly distance learning)

12th-16th:          14th International Conference on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring (Tubingen, Germany)

16th-17th:          Paediatric Epilepsy Training 2 (PET) Days 3&4 (Cambridge, England)

17th-18th:          British Society of Neuroradiologists Annual Meeting (Glasgow, Scotland)

22nd:                ASBAH AGM 2010 (Peterborough, England)

22nd-24th:         BSRM Autumn Meeting & AGM (Leamington Spa, England)

30th:                 ABN Meeting September 2010 (Royal College of Physicians, London, England)

October 2010

1st-2nd:            2nd European Research Conference on Paediatric Neurology (Leuven, Belgium)

2nd:                  National Tremor Foundation conference (Watford, England)

4th:                   XIX Symposium Neuroradiologicum (Bologna, Italy)

5th:                   7th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

13th:                 International League Against Epilepsy UK Chapter, Annual Scientific Meeting                   (Brighton, UK)

19th-21st:          Coming of Age: Dementia in the 21st Century (London, England)

26th:                 10th International Congress of Neuroimmunology (Barcelona, Spain)

22nd:                European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress (Nice, France)

Contact us

Please contact us if you have any suggestions or comments about the specialist collection.