Well-researched reviews make the unwieldy number of research articles, and the rapid accumulation of knowledge, manageable. For this reason I set out to make a list of the most useful neurology review articles.
To do this I searched the database of references I compiled in the process of creating a neurology checklists app called neurochecklists. My search revealed more than 300 review articles, winnowed down eventually to the 150 most useful neurology review articles. Not an easy undertaking as this list had to cover the diverse range of neurological diseases, procedures, and interventions.
150 is a rather large number, and for a blog, an impossible one. I therefore went ahead to see if I could pin down what I think are the Top 50 neurology review articles. Here is the alphabetical list (disease, authors, and year), with links to their Pubmed abstracts.
Top 50 Neurology Review Articles
- Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), Choi and Mohr, 2005
- Autoimmune encephalopathy, Vincent et al, 2011
- CADASIL, Adib-Samii et al, 2010
- Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA), Rannikmae et al, 2013
- Cerebral aneurysms, Clarke, 2008
- Cerebral microbleeds, Cordonnier et al, 2007
- Cervical Artery Dissection (CAD), Debette and Markus, 2009
- Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT), Pareyson and Marchesi, 2009
- Clinically Isolated Syndrome (CIS), Miller et al, 2012
- Cramps, Katzberg et al, 2010
- Dementia in the young, Rossor et al, 2010
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), Bushby et al, 2010
- First seizure, Krumholz et al, 2007
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Seelar et al, 2011
- Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), van Doorn et al, 2008
- Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis (HSP), Salinas et al, 2008
- Huntington’s Disease (HD), Novak and Tabrizi, 2010
- HyperCKaemia, Morandi et al, 2012
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), Biosse et al, 2012
- Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), Gilhus, 2011
- Lyme neuroborreliosis, Halperin et al, 2007
- Meningitis, Bhimraj, 2012
- Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Miller et al, 2009
- Movement disorders emergencies, Munhoz et al, 2012
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) treatment, Castro-Borrero et al, 2012
- Myasthenia Gravis (MG), Jayam Trouth et al, 2012
- Myasthenia Gravis (MG) myasthenic crisis, Wendell and Levine, 2011
- Myotonic Dystrophy, Turner and Hilton-Jones, 2014
- Narcolepsy, Leschziner, 2014
- Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO), Palace et al, 2012
- Neurosarcoidosis, Joseph and Scolding, 2009
- Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Massano and Bhatia, 2012
- Paroxysmal dyskinesias, Erro et al, 2014
- Periodic Paralysis (primary), Finsterer, 2008
- Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES), Roth and Ferbert, 2011
- Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Carew et al, 2009
- Primary angiitis of the CNS, Hajj-Ali, 2011
- Primary CNS Lymphoma, Schlegel, 2009
- Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PPMS), Rice et al, 2013
- 40. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML), Hunt and Giovannoni, 2012
- REM sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD), Boeve, 2010
- Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (RCVS), Sattar et al, 2010
- Stroke in the young, Larrue et al, 2011
- Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), So et al, 2009
- Syncope, Weiling et al, 2009
- Thunderclap headache (TCH), Ducros, 2013
- Transient Epileptic Amnesia (TEA), Zeman and Butler, 2010
- Venous Sinus Thrombosis (VST), Piazza, 2012
- Viral encephalitis, Solomon et al, 2007
- Wilson’s disease, Bandmann et al, 2015
Here is the full list of my top 150 review articles.
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