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Latency to First Event is Shorter in Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures Than in Epileptic Seizures in an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
by Vishwanath Sagi MBBS, MPH; Jaime Shoup MD; Ravikiran Chilukuri; and M. Steven Evans MD Drs. Sagi and Evans are with the Department of Neurology at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Drs. Shoup [...]
The Depression Inventory Development Scale: Assessment of Psychometric Properties Using Classical and Modern Measurement Theory in a CAN-BIND Trial
by Anthony L. Vaccarino, PhD; Amir H. Kalali, MD; Pierre Blier, MD, PhD; Susan Gilbert Evans, MSc; Nina Engelhardt, PhD; Jane A. Foster, PhD; Benicio N. Frey, MD, PhD; John H. Greist, MD; Kenneth A. [...]
Layperson/Plain Language Summaries: Can Sponsors, CROs, and Sites Deliver in 2020?
by Charles S. Wilcox, PhD, MPA, MBA; Leslie Franceschi, BA; and ADAM SIMMONS, MPH Dr. Wilcox is Chief Executive Officer at Praxis Research Consulting in Newport Beach, California. Ms. Franceschi is Senior Project Director at [...]
Risk Management: Top Five HIPAA Lessons Learned: A Review of HHS Resolution Agreements
by Justin Pope, JD Mr. Pope is an Associate Risk Manager at Professional Risk Management Services (PRMS). FUNDING: No funding was provided for the preparation of this article. DISCLOSURES: The author is an employee of [...]
Frontiers in Detecting Consciousness: The Growing Use of EEG Analysis
Dear Editors: There is growing scientific interest regarding the use of electroencephalogram (EEG) and multivariate analysis as a means to classify states of consciousness. A recent work assessed the validity of 28 potential EEG markers [...]
Role of Norepinephrine in Schizophrenia: An Old-fashioned but New Story from Emergency Medicine
Dear Editor: A number of hypotheses have been put forth regarding the etiology of schizophrenia, including dopamine hypothesis and glutamate hypothesis.1 However, a lesser known theory is that elevated norepinephrinergic signaling plays a causative role [...]
Editorial Message and Issue Highlights–Vol. 17, No. 4–6, April–June 2020
Dear Colleagues: Welcome to the April–June 2020 edition of Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience (ICNS). For 2020’s second quarterly issue of ICNS, we start with original research by Azizi et al titled, “The Epileptogenesis Property of [...]
Letter to the Editor: Is Dropped Head Syndrome in Sporadic Late-onset Nemaline Myopathy Always Untreatable?
Dear Editor: Dropped head syndrome (DHS) is a rare condition characterized by cervical paraspinal muscles weakness that causes a recognizable deformity with various degrees of “chin on chest” posture.1–3 Though the etiology of DHS is [...]