1. Message from Editor 2016

   Acknowledgement to Referees 30 January 2017 Pages: 1 - 4

2. Highlights of the Issue 1, 2017

   Highlights 04 February 2017 Pages: 5 - 8

3. Advances in clinical neurology through the journal “Neurological Sciences” (2015–2016)

   • Ilaria Di Donato
   • Antonio Federico

   Editorial 16 January 2017 Pages: 9 - 18

4. Study of the anti-seizure effects of low-frequency stimulation following kindling (a review of the cellular mechanism related to the anti-seizure effects of low-frequency electrical stimulation)

   • Zohreh Ghotbeddin
   • Mahyar Janahmadi
   • Ali Yadollahpour

   Review Article 26 August 2016 Pages: 19 - 26

   

5. Thrombolysis in dementia patients with acute stroke: is it justified?

   • Maurizio Paciaroni
   • Leonardo Pantoni

   Review Article 03 October 2016 Pages: 27 - 31

   

6. Migraine and the risk of stroke: an updated meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

   • Xianming Hu
   • Yingchun Zhou
   • Cheng Peng

   Review Article 26 October 2016 Pages: 33 - 40

   

7. Advanced magnetic resonance imaging of neurodegenerative diseases

   • Federica Agosta
   • Sebastiano Galantucci
   • Massimo Filippi

   Review Article 15 November 2016 Pages: 41 - 51

   

8. Safety and tolerability of fingolimod in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: results of an open-label clinical trial in Italy

   • Alice Laroni
   • Davide Brogi
   • Giovanni Luigi Mancardi

   Original Article 18 October 2016 Pages: 53 - 59

9. Activation of the mTOR signaling pathway in peritumoral tissues can cause glioma-associated seizures

   • Yang Yuan
   • Wang Xiang
   • Mao Qing

   Original Article 19 September 2016 Pages: 61 - 66

   

10. The expression of miRNA-221 and miRNA-222 in gliomas patients and their prognosis

    • Liang Xue
    • Yi Wang
    • Jianning Zhang

    Original Article 15 September 2016 Pages: 67 - 73

    

11. Sleep bruxism is related to decreased inhibitory control of trigeminal motoneurons, but not with reticulobulbar system

    • Rahşan İnan
    • Gülçin Benbir Şenel
    • Meral E. Kızıltan

    Original Article 14 September 2016 Pages: 75 - 81

12. The Italian dementia with Lewy bodies study group (DLB-SINdem): toward a standardization of clinical procedures and multicenter cohort studies design

    • L. Bonanni
    • A. Cagnin
    • On behalf of DLB-SINdem study group

    Original Article 13 September 2016 Pages: 83 - 91

    

13. Intra-rater reliability of the Modified Tardieu Scale in patients with multiple sclerosis

    • Soofia Naghdi
    • Noureddin Nakhostin Ansari
    • Mohammad Ali Sahraian

    Original Article 12 September 2016 Pages: 93 - 99

14. Cognitive profiles in degenerative dementia without evidence of small vessel pathology and small vessel vascular dementia

    • Antonella De Carolis
    • Virginia Cipollini
    • Franco Giubilei

    Original Article 21 September 2016 Pages: 101 - 107

    

15. Treatment of chronic subdural hematoma by novel YL-1 hollow needle aspiration drainage system (697 cases report)

    • L. Chen
    • L. Dong
    • L. Yang

    Original Article 20 September 2016 Pages: 109 - 113

    

16. Assessment of free and cued recall in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular and frontotemporal dementia with 24-item Grober and Buschke test

    • Milena Cerciello
    • Valeria Isella
    • Costanza Papagno

    Original Article 26 September 2016 Pages: 115 - 122

    

17. Screening for intermediate CGG alleles of FMR1 gene in male Iranian patients with Parkinsonism

    • Atefeh Entezari
    • Mahmoud Shekari Khaniani
    • Hossein Darvish

    Original Article 01 October 2016 Pages: 123 - 128

    

18. The effects of CD147 on the cell proliferation, apoptosis, invasion, and angiogenesis in glioma

    • Haoyuan Yin
    • Ying Shao
    • Xuan Chen

    Original Article 19 October 2016 Pages: 129 - 136

    

19. Multifocal cognitive dysfunction in high-dose benzodiazepine users: a cross-sectional study

    • Angela Federico
    • Stefano Tamburin
    • Fabio Lugoboni

    Original Article 11 October 2016 Pages: 137 - 142

    

20. Calgary score and modified Calgary score in the differential diagnosis between neurally mediated syncope and epilepsy in children

    • Runmei Zou
    • Shuo Wang
    • Cheng Wang

    Original Article 17 October 2016 Pages: 143 - 149

    

21. Association of sudomotor function with peripheral artery disease in type 2 diabetes

    • Simran Chahal
    • Kanchan Vohra
    • Ashit Syngle

    Original Article 25 October 2016 Pages: 151 - 156

    

22. Let’s cut it short: Italian standardization of the MMSPE (Mini-Mental State Pediatric Examination), a brief cognitive screening tool for school-age children

    • P. Scarpa
    • A. Toraldo
    • G. Bottini

    Original Article 21 October 2016 Pages: 157 - 162

    

23. Prevalence of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in Parkinson’s disease: a meta and meta-regression analysis

    • Xiaona Zhang
    • Xiaoxuan Sun
    • Anmu Xie

    Original Article 21 October 2016 Pages: 163 - 170

    

24. α-Synuclein in the colon and premotor markers of Parkinson disease in neurologically normal subjects

    • Joong-Seok Kim
    • In-Seok Park
    • Won-Kyung Kang

    Original Article 01 November 2016 Pages: 171 - 179

    

25. Early rehabilitation: benefits in patients with severe acquired brain injury

    • Rita Formisano
    • Eva Azicnuda
    • Renato Avesani

    Brief Communication 01 October 2016 Pages: 181 - 184

26. Cerebellar vermis: a vulnerable location of remote brain haemorrhages after thrombolysis for ischaemic stroke

    • Herbert Tejada-Meza
    • Pedro J. Modrego

    Brief Communication 05 October 2016 Pages: 185 - 187

    

27. Differences in sleep architecture between left and right temporal lobe epilepsy

    • Miki Nakamura
    • Kazutaka Jin
    • Nobukazu Nakasato

    Brief Communication 19 October 2016 Pages: 189 - 192

28. Sexual headache from view point of Avicenna and traditional Persian medicine

    • Seyed Hamdollah Mosavat
    • Maral Marzban
    • Mahdie Hajimonfarednejad

    History of Neurology 21 October 2016 Pages: 193 - 196

29. Systemic lupus erythematosus manifested as drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    • P. Polychronopoulos
    • G. Giannopoulos
    • E. Chroni

    Letter to the Editor 03 September 2016 Pages: 197 - 200

    

30. Transcranial direct current stimulation for patients with benign essential blepharospasm: a case report

    • Vincent Trebossen
    • Noomane Bouaziz
    • Dominique Januel

    Letter to the Editor 26 September 2016 Pages: 201 - 202

    

31. Wernicke encephalopathy and systemic sclerosis: rare association of rare conditions

    • Giorgia Sciacca
    • Salvatore Lo Fermo
    • Mario Zappia

    Letter to the Editor 02 September 2016 Pages: 203 - 205

    

32. C9ORF72 gene expansion in a patient with intellectual disability and psychiatric disease

    • Alba Rosa Pati
    • Carla Battisti
    • Maria Teresa Dotti

    Letter to the Editor 19 September 2016 Pages: 207 - 208

33. Francesco M. Galassi and Hutan Ashrafian: Julius Caesar’s disease: a new diagnosis

    • Mirko Traversari

    Book Review 24 January 2017 Pages: 209 - 210