Jayaram Saibaba, Saranya B Gomathy, Ramkumar Sugumaran, Sunil K Narayan
{"title":"A young woman with ataxia, seizures and myoclonus.","authors":"Jayaram Saibaba, Saranya B Gomathy, Ramkumar Sugumaran, Sunil K Narayan","doi":"10.1136/pn-2025-004821","DOIUrl":"10.1136/pn-2025-004821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":" ","pages":"510-514"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145410404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anca Loredana Alungulese, Irene Catalina Alvarez, Ignacio Millán Arredondo, Pedro Ruiz Sala, Francisco Arias, Julio Prieto Montalvo, María Isabel Esteban Rodriguez
{"title":"Acquired multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) provoked by sertraline: an emerging and treatable disorder.","authors":"Anca Loredana Alungulese, Irene Catalina Alvarez, Ignacio Millán Arredondo, Pedro Ruiz Sala, Francisco Arias, Julio Prieto Montalvo, María Isabel Esteban Rodriguez","doi":"10.1136/pn-2025-005016","DOIUrl":"10.1136/pn-2025-005016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":" ","pages":"499-501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146114267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>The Devil You Know</i>.","authors":"Anushka Ghosh, Oliver Price, Phil Smith","doi":"10.1136/pn-2026-005275","DOIUrl":"10.1136/pn-2026-005275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":" ","pages":"522"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148044104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emer O'Connor, James E Burns, Laura M White, Sophie N M Binks
{"title":"Journal club: safety and efficacy of adjunct dexamethasone in adults with herpes simplex virus encephalitis in the UK (DexEnceph)-a multicentre, observer-blind, randomised, phase 3, controlled trial.","authors":"Emer O'Connor, James E Burns, Laura M White, Sophie N M Binks","doi":"10.1136/pn-2026-005337","DOIUrl":"10.1136/pn-2026-005337","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":" ","pages":"520-521"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148473164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's commentary.","authors":"Phil E Smith, Geraint N Fuller","doi":"10.1136/pn-2026-005460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/pn-2026-005460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":"26 5","pages":"413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149017990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zeinab Awada, Faina Ablyazova, John Boockvar, Sami Saba
{"title":"Extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of the common fibular nerve.","authors":"Zeinab Awada, Faina Ablyazova, John Boockvar, Sami Saba","doi":"10.1136/pn-2025-004852","DOIUrl":"10.1136/pn-2025-004852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ewing sarcoma is a highly aggressive malignancy predominantly affecting bones and soft tissues, which typically occurs in young people. Its occurrence in peripheral nerves is exceptionally rare, posing significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. We describe a 64-year-old woman with progressive weakness of the left foot, who had an intraneural extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of the common fibular nerve. We describe the complexities of diagnosing this rare malignancy and emphasise the role of a multidisciplinary approach to management.</p>","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":" ","pages":"475-478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145640818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low back pain, with or without sciatica.","authors":"Harry McNaughton, Vivian Fu, Ravi Kothari","doi":"10.1136/pn-2025-004721","DOIUrl":"10.1136/pn-2025-004721","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to the Global Burden of Disease Project (2021), back pain affects over half a billion people worldwide and is responsible for the most years lived with disability of any condition. Only a small fraction of these will ever see a neurologist, but those that do pose a range of difficulties, from attempting an accurate diagnosis to estimating prognosis and providing advice as to whether any interventions, particularly surgery, are likely to be better than the effect of time alone. There are many guidelines, mainly aimed at primary care practitioners. This article tries to provide succinct evidence-based messages for neurologists (and others in secondary care) to use with patients at different stages of back pain duration-from acute to chronic-to help in navigating some of these difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":39343,"journal":{"name":"PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY","volume":" ","pages":"449-455"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145655692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}