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Visual hallucinations, extrapyramidal motor signs, and visuoconstructional impairments at time of presentation are strongly suggestive of a diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies.
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Treatment of GBS should not be only aimed at improving patients' disability but also at limiting the impact of the disease on their social life.
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Patients with essential tremor may have degenerative changes in the Purkinje-dentate-thalamic pathways.
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Long-term treatment of myasthenia gravis with combined immunosuppressive therapy is generally safe and effective.
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Pulsatile tinnitus is usually due to an ipsilateral venous anomaly that can be diagnosed with CT angiography and venography in most cases.
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Fingolimod, a novel immunomodulating agent that can be taken orally, reduces the number of clinical relapses and MRI lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis.
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Severe tongue protrusion dystonia is disabling and occasionally life-threatening, and may suggest either a secondary cause or particular heredodegenerative diseases.
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has multiple subtypes, and the subtype has an effect on the sensitivity of commonly utilized diagnostic tests in the workup of CJD.
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Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus improved "off" motor symptoms and quality of life in advanced Parkinson's disease, but was associated with an increased rate of serious adverse events.
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