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Volume 78, Number 2, January 10, 2012
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IN FOCUS
79 Spotlight on the January 10 Issue
EDITORIALS
80 MRI-based biomarkers of preclinical AD:
An Alzheimer signature
Susan M. Resnick and Philip Scheltens
82 Really small vascular disease of the brain
Paul A. Nyquist and Joshua I. Barzilay
ARTICLES
84 MRI cortical thickness biomarker predicts AD-like
CSF and cognitive decline in normal adults
Bradford C. Dickerson and David A. Wolk, on behalf of
the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Editorial, p. 80
91 Nicotine treatment of mild cognitive impairment:
A 6-month double-blind pilot clinical trial
P. Newhouse, K. Kellar, P. Aisen, H. White, K. Wesnes,
E. Coderre, A. Pfaff, H. Wilkins, D. Howard,
and E.D. Levin
102 Risk factors for lacune subtypes in the
Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
D.C. Bezerra, A.R. Sharrett, K. Matsushita,
R.F. Gottesman, D. Shibata, T.H. Mosley, Jr.,
J. Coresh, M. Szklo, M.S. Carvalho, and E. Selvin
Editorial, p. 82
109 Cost comparison between the atraumatic and cutting
lumbar puncture needles
C.E. Tung, Y.T. So, and M.G. Lansberg
114 Recovery after spinal cord infarcts: Long-term
outcome in 115 patients
C.E. Robertson, R.D. Brown, Jr., E.F.M. Wijdicks,
and A.A. Rabinstein
122 Focal hand dystonia: Lack of evidence for abnormality
of motor representation at rest
D. Weise, R. Gentner, D. Zeller, A. Nagel,
C. Reinsberger, J.-J. Rumpf, and J. Classen
129 Mapping thalamocortical network pathology in
temporal lobe epilepsy
B.C. Bernhardt, N. Bernasconi, H. Kim,
and A. Bernasconi
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
137 Creation of the European Academy of Neurology
Zohar Argov and Richard Hughes
SPECIAL ARTICLE
139 Evidence-based guideline: Antiepileptic drug
selection for people with HIV/AIDS: Report of the
Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American
Academy of Neurology and the Ad Hoc Task Force of
the Commission on Therapeutic Strategies of the
International League Against Epilepsy
G.L. Birbeck, J.A. French, E. Perucca, D.M. Simpson,
H. Fraimow, J.M. George, J.F. Okulicz, D.B. Clifford,
H. Hachad, and R.H. Levy
CLINICAL/SCIENTIFIC NOTES
146 Thalamic astasia from isolated centromedian
thalamic infarction
K. Elwischger, P. Rommer, D. Prayer, C. Mueller,
E. Auff, and G. Wiest
REFLECTIONS: NEUROLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES
148 Recognition
Ludwig Gutmann
NEUROIMAGES
150 Chiasmal visual loss after retinal detachment
Sashank Prasad and Alexandra Golby
RESIDENT & FELLOW SECTION
e4 Clinical Reasoning: An unusual lung mass causing
focal weakness
Y. El-Sherif, H. Sarva, and H. Valsamis
e8 Pearls & Oy-sters: Bifocal germinoma of the brain:
Review of systems is key to the diagnosis
P.S. Ghosh, T. Tekautz, and S. Mitra
e11 Teaching NeuroImages: Bilateral pedicular fractures
in severe lumbar dural ectasia
Shevantha Rosa and Indran Davagnanam
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WRITECLICK: EDITORS CHOICE
151 Association of Alzheimer disease pathology with
abnormal lipid metabolism: The Hisayama Study
L. Mascitelli, S. Seneff, M.R. Goldstein;
Author Response: K. Sasaki, T. Iwaki
152 Normal pressure hydrocephalus: How often does the
diagnosis hold water?
R.B. Rosenbaum; Author Response: B.T. Klassen

152 Longitudinal assessment of oxaliplatin-induced

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