Neurology/Neurosurgery
Tom Mulhearn, Dr. Aimie Peek, Prof. Trudy Rebbeck, Prof. Luke Henderson Background Migraine is a primary headache disorder with a significant disease burden. Clinically, it is broken into two groups based on migraine frequency, chronic migraine (>15 days/month) and episodic migraine (<15 days/month). A...
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Olivia Taylor, Joshua Brzozowski, Kathryn Skelding Background Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumour in humans. The median survival for GBM patients is 10-11 months and has remained static for decades, demonstrating an urgent need to investigate new targets...
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Matthew J Lennon, Dennis Neuen, Joseph J Suttie Case report A 59 year old female presented with a history of 6 weeks of bifrontal headache that radiated down her neck and was worse upon waking and when leaning forward. There were no changes to...
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Powell, A., Mewburn, J., Finucane, P., Jude, M., Mohr, K., Objectives To build a profile of the experiences of stroke in the oldest old in the Murrumbidgee region and compare variables with two younger cohorts to test hypotheses about background, treatment and outcomes. Methods...
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Dr Michael Valente, A/Prof Martin Jude Abstract Using cases from Wagga Wagga and Canberra Hospitals we are able to estimate the total delay in onset to reperfusion time caused by inter-hospital transport for patients with acute ischaemic stroke. An important treatment for patients with...
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Kirra Parks Review Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is a potentially devastating and critically time sensitive diagnosis affecting young people. Although rare, it is the most common form of encephalitis in children and young adults and is 4 times more common than HSV encephalitis. First described...
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Harry Jude Case Report The presenting symptom in this 29-year-old gentleman with phenylketonuria was intermittent anxiety and right sided tinnitus which could be adjusted and induced by rubbing the right side of his face anteriorly to the ear. An MRI was done which...
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Matthew J. Lennon1,2, Steve R. Makkar 1,2, John D. Crawford1,2, Perminder S. Sachdev1,2,3 1. School of Medicine, University of New South Wales, NSW2. Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, NSW3. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW Background The...
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