In the June JNNP issue, Koike and colleagues have reported the morphological changes in sural nerve biopsies of patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) who have autoantibodies against paranodal structures. CIDP is an immune-mediated neuropathy that develops over 8 week, which manifests with progressive proximal and distal weakness and is associated with sensory […]
Month: June 2017
Corpus callosum dysfunction in ALS: more than just connecting two sides
In the May JNNP issue, Zhang and colleagues have published a study investigating the changes in structural and functional connectivity in patients with ALS. ALS is one of the most complex neurodegenerative diseases, which affects the motor system. It is characterized by concomitant degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons, producing progressive weakness […]