1. Editorial

   • Thomas Brandt

   EDITORIAL Pages: 1 - 2

2. Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Guillain-Barré syndrome – Where do we stand?

   • Johannes Brettschneider
   • Axel Petzold
   • Hayrettin Tumani

   REVIEW 16 February 2009 Pages: 3 - 12

3. Joint hypermobility as a distinctive feature in the differential diagnosis of myopathies

   • N. C. Voermans
   • C. G. Bonnemann
   • B. G. van Engelen

   REVIEW 09 February 2009 Pages: 13 - 27

4. In vivo voxel-based relaxometry in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

   • Martina Minnerop
   • Karsten Specht
   • Thomas Klockgether

   ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 16 February 2009 Pages: 28 - 34

5. An epidemiological study of neuromyelitis optica in Cuba

   • Jose A. Cabrera-Gómez
   • John F. Kurtzke
   • R. Lara-Rodríguez

   ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 35 - 44

6. Configuration of the circle of Willis, direction of flow, and shape of the aneurysm as risk factors for rupture of intracranial aneurysms

   • Nicolien K. de Rooij
   • Birgitta K. Velthuis
   • Gabriël J. E. Rinkel

   ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 45 - 50

7. Risk stratification of non-traumatic headache in the emergency department

   • Daniela Grimaldi
   • Francesco Nonino
   • Pietro Cortelli

   ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 51 - 57

8. Psychiatric morbidity and comorbidity in different vestibular vertigo syndromes

   • Christoph Best
   • Annegret Eckhardt-Henn
   • Marianne Dieterich

   ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 07 February 2009 Pages: 58 - 65

9. Procollagen propeptides in chronic subdural hematoma reveal sustained dural collagen synthesis after head injury

   • Anna-Leena Heula
   • Juha Sajanti
   • Kari Majamaa

   ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 66 - 71

10. Explorative investigation of biomarkers of brain damage and coagulation system activation in clinical stroke differentiation

    • Johan Undén
    • Karin Strandberg
    • Gunnar Andsberg

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 72 - 77

11. Vertigo and vestibular abnormalities in spinocerebellar ataxia type 6

    • Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
    • Grainne Gorman
    • Patrick F. Chinnery

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 78 - 82

12. A decision tool to support appropriate referral for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease

    • Elena Moro
    • Niels Allert
    • International Study Group onReferral Criteria for DBS

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 07 January 2009 Pages: 83 - 88

13. Teriflunomide reduces behavioral, electrophysiological, and histopathological deficits in the Dark Agouti rat model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    • Jean E. Merrill
    • Susan Hanak
    • Kathleen McMonagle-Strucko

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 24 January 2009 Pages: 89 - 103

14. SPG11 spastic paraplegia

    • Mathieu Anheim
    • Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne
    • Christine Tranchant

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 09 February 2009 Pages: 104 - 108

15. Diffusion-weighted versus volumetric imaging of the striatum in early symptomatic Huntington disease

    • Wim Vandenberghe
    • Philippe Demaerel
    • Frederik Maes

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 16 February 2009 Pages: 109 - 114

16. MDR1 variants and risk of Parkinson disease

    • Katja Zschiedrich
    • Inke R. König
    • Katja Lohmann

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 29 January 2009 Pages: 115 - 120

17. Abnormal motor excitability in patients with psychogenic paresis

    • Joachim Liepert
    • Thomas Hassa
    • Roger Schmidt

    ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION 29 January 2009 Pages: 121 - 126

18. A new clinical sign in Holmes-Adie syndrome

    • Mária del Valle Loarte
    • P. J. Garcia Ruiz

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 05 February 2009 Pages: 127 - 128

19. Paraneoplastic autoimmune encephalitis associated with CV2/CRMP-5 IgG antineuronal antibodies in a patient with thymoma

    • C. Werry
    • F. Götz
    • A. Windhagen

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 16 February 2009 Pages: 129 - 131

20. No evidence for association between an MAOA functional polymorphism and susceptibility to Parkinson’s disease

    • Caroline Williams-Gray
    • An Goris
    • Roger A. Barker

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 16 February 2009 Pages: 132 - 133

21. Severe and rapidly evolving peripheral neuropathy revealing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    • Hélène Zéphir
    • Tanya Stojkovic
    • Patrick Vermersch

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 07 February 2009 Pages: 134 - 136

22. Familial cerebral cavernous malformations associated with a splice-site CCM2 deletion

    • Adolfo Jiménez-Huete
    • Rafael Hortigüela
    • Miguel Calero

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 09 February 2009 Pages: 137 - 138

23. Steroid-unresponsive neurosarcoidosis successfully treated with adalimumab

    • Michael Marnane
    • Timothy Lynch
    • Peter J. Kelly

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 31 January 2009 Pages: 139 - 140

24. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with top of the basilar artery syndrome

    • Yuji Kato
    • Hidetaka Takeda
    • Norio Tanahashi

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 16 February 2009 Pages: 141 - 142

25. Patent foramen ovale closure and migraine: Are we following the wrong pathway?

    • Tom Sarens
    • Luc Herroelen
    • Werner Budts

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 29 January 2009 Pages: 143 - 144

26. Cryptococcal cerebellitis after chemotherapy and autologous stem cell re-infusion in a patient with multiple myeloma

    • W. Fickweiler
    • M. J. H. Aries
    • J. De Keyser

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 16 February 2009 Pages: 145 - 146

27. Eduardo De Robertis (1913–1988)

    • Manuel del Cerro
    • Lazaros C. Triarhou

    PIONEERS IN NEUROLOGY 07 October 2008 Pages: 147 - 148

28. News on progressive supranuclear palsy and the vestibular system

    • Michael Strupp

    JOURNAL CLUB Pages: 149 - 151

29. Communications of the European Neurological Society

    COMMUNICATIONS Pages: 152 - 154