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Nervous system diseases

Medical education

Japanese encephalitis virus: changing the clinical landscape of encephalitis in Australia

Sarah Allen, Celia M Cooper, Ajay Taranath, Allen C Cheng and Philip N Britton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (8): 344-347

Perspectives

Assessing preparedness for Alzheimer disease‐modifying therapies in Australasian health care systems

Amy Brodtmann, David Darby, Carly Oboudiyat, Colin J Mahoney, Campbell Le Heron, Peter K Panegyres and Bruce Brew

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 247-249 Free

Research letter

Different estimates of the prevalence of dementia in Australia, 2021

Annette J Dobson, Leon Flicker, Osvaldo P Almeida, Michael Waller and Kaarin Anstey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 320-321 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Cervical cord infarction mimicking migraine in a patient with vertebral artery dissection

Alanna Rottler, Yew Li Dang, Wai Foong Hooi, David Burrows, Hong Kuan Kok and Douglas Crompton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 111-112 Free

Narrative review

Young‐onset dementia diagnosis, management and care: a narrative review

Samantha M Loi, Monica Cations and Dennis Velakoulis

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 182-189 Free

Letters

Differences in the pre‐hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales

Monique Kilkenny, Amminadab L Eliakundu and Joosup Kim

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 96-96 Free

Letters

Differences in the pre‐hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales

Xia Wang, Cheryl Carcel and Mark Woodward

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 96-96

Narrative review

The role of spinal surgery in the treatment of low back pain

Lachlan Evans, Thomas O’Donohoe, Andrew Morokoff and Katharine Drummond

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 40-45 Free

Perspectives

Stroke in Australia: long term survivors have fallen into a black hole

Katharine Scrivener, Catherine Dean, Ian D Cameron and Louise Ada

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (6): 290-291 Free

Study protocol

The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) project: a mixed methods study protocol

Gerard M O'Reilly, Kate Curtis, Yesul Kim, Biswadev Mitra, Kate Hunter, Courtney Ryder, Delia V Hendrie, Nick Rushworth, Afsana Afroz, Shane D'Angelo, Jin Tee and Mark C Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 361-365 Free

Research letter

Primary headache drug treatment in emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand

Kevin Chu, Anne‐Maree Kelly, Frances Kinnear, Gerben Keijzers and Sinan Kamona

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (7): 366-367 Free

Perspectives

What causes multiple sclerosis? Getting closer to the answers

Bruce V Taylor

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 180-182

Research

Differences in the pre‐hospital management of women and men with stroke by emergency medical services in New South Wales

Xia Wang, Cheryl Carcel, Benjumin Hsu, Sultana Shajahan, Matthew Miller, Sanne Peters, Deborah A Randall, Alys Havard, Julie Redfern, Craig S Anderson, Louisa Jorm and Mark Woodward

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 143-148 Free

Editorials

Stroke is more than a hemiparesis: the pre‐hospital detection of stroke

Else Charlotte Sandset and Maren Ranhoff Hov

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (3): 140-141

Perspectives

Time to antithrombotic therapy after transient ischaemic attack and ischaemic stroke

Thanh G Phan, Benjamin Clissold and Henry Ma

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 495-497

Perspectives

The acute telestroke model of care in Australia: a potential roadmap for other emergency medical services?

Carlos Garcia‐Esperon, Christopher F Bladin, Timothy J Kleinig, Helen Brown, Jennifer J Majersik, Andrew Wesseldine and Kenneth Butcher

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 498-500

Perspectives

Functional neurological disorders: an Australian interdisciplinary perspective

Elizabeth Pepper, Adith Mohan, Kenneth Butcher, Mark Parsons and Jackie Curtis

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 501-503 Free

Letters

Comment on NATSEM’s report on the economic and societal cost of Alzheimer disease in Australia

Michael Valenzuela

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 540-540

Perspectives

Living clinical guidelines for stroke: updates, challenges and opportunities

Coralie English, Kelvin Hill, Dominique A Cadilhac, Maree L Hackett, Natasha A Lannin, Sandy Middleton, Annemarei Ranta, Nigel P Stocks, Julie Davey, Steven G Faux, Erin Godecke and Bruce CV Campbell

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 510-514 Free

Research letter

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in Australia: the first three years of the Australian Sports Brain Bank

Catherine M Suter, Andrew J Affleck, Maggie Lee, Alan J Pearce, Linda E Iles and Michael E Buckland

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (10): 530-531 Free

Perspectives

Does the FDA‐approved Alzheimer drug aducanumab have a place in the Australian pharmacopoeia?

Andrew Gleason, Scott Ayton and Ashley I Bush

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 172-174

Medical education

Peripheral nerve entrapment: how to diagnose and when to refer

Gavin A Davis and Timothy J Day

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (3): 126-130

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Cryptogenic neuropsychiatric presentations diagnostic delay in Cryptococcus gattii meningoencephalitis at a regional Australian tertiary hospital

Andrew P Gador‐Whyte, Jared Harris, Karen Gunanayagam, Aaron Walton, Andrew Hughes and Eugene Athan

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 69-70

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in western New South Wales

Rhiannon L Holdsworth, Elizabeth Downie, Matthew J Georgiades, Ross Bradbury, Julian Druce and James Collett

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 71-72

Perspectives

Mitochondrial donation: is Australia ready?

Marie A Dziadek and Carolyn M Sue

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (3): 118-121 Free