Finally from ANA 2015, here are my top 10 abstracts/posters. My main criterion is posters that made me go ‘hmmm-that’s interesting!’
- Musical hallucinosis occur in neurodegenerative disorders especially Lewy body disease (LBD)
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may improve multiple sclerosis (MS) fatigue
- Subjects with larger and closely knit social networks present earlier to hospital after ischaemic stroke
- Patients with epilepsy are prone to orthostatic intolerance
- Medical marijuana may be effective in controlling intractable seizures
- Dropped head syndrome in multiple system atrophy (MSA) may respond to Amantadine
- Hyponatraemia may predict in-hospital mortality in myasthenia gravis (MG)
- Prostate cancer metastases to the ventricles may cause obstructive hydrocephalus
- Rsing the leg off the couch elicits the Babinski response pyramidal tract dysfunction (the Pasupuleti sign)
- Retinal fiber layer thickening may be a biomarker of Huntington’s disease (HD)