Neurodigest

The NICE Guideline on Motor Neurone Disease

Professor David Oliver & Rachael Marsden on behalf of the Guideline Development Group David Oliver has recently retired as a Consultant in Palliative Medicine at the ...(read more)
The brain tumour patient experience of ketogenic diet therapy

Susan Wood*, Specialist Dietitian; Ketogenic Diet Therapies and Catherine Zabilowicz, Nutritional Therapist. ABSTRACT: Background Ketogenic diet therapy (KDT) is creating ...(read more)
Gut microbiota and Parkinson’s disease: background and rationale of the SymPD study

Dr Valentina Leta MD Neurologist is a PhD Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, London.1,2 Prof K Ray Chaudhuri DSc FRCP MD is Clinical Director ...(read more)
Nutricia: Helping to Support the Need for Ketogenic Diets in the Epilepsy Population

Ewan Forbes, BSc (Hons) PGDip RD, Medical Affairs Manager, Metabolics & Ketogenics Approximately 600,000 people in the UK have a diagnosis of epilepsy. The prevalence ...(read more)
Epilepsy: The RCGP clinical champions programme

Each year the RCGP chooses three clinical areas and supports efforts to raise the profile and awareness of these areas both within General Practice and across Primary Care. ...(read more)
The network approach: a new model for care provision for people with motor neurone Disease (pwMND)

Ken Dawson is a Consultant Neurologist, working mainly as a General Neurologist in the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board area and also at the University Hospital of ...(read more)
Common Prescribing errors in primary care when managing Parkinson’s disease patients

There have been several incidences of the Ropinirole starter pack being requested by primary care. Over a 28 day period the drug is titrated up from zero to 1mg TDS, and GP ...(read more)
Rapid and reliable management of early-morning OFF periods in patients with Parkinson’s disease

K. Ray Chaudhuri Professor of Movement Disorders, Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence, Department of Neurology, King’s College and King’s ...(read more)

Hypnosis & Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (FND)

Dr Jason Price About Jason… Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. He is also Chair of the Policy Unit, Division of ...(read more)
It’s OK to say “I don’t know”: Observations from a person with a complex neurological condition

Polly Moyer gives a detailed patient perspective on what it is like to live with a rare neurological condition with an array of sensory symptoms. ...(read more)

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