Research Topics
| R J HarveySummaryCountry: UK Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
The prevalence and causes of dementia in people under the age of 65 yearsR J Harvey
Imperial College London and the Institute of Neurology UCL, London, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 74:1206-9. 2003..To determine the prevalence of dementia in people under the age of 65 in a large catchment area, and use these figures to estimate the number of younger people affected by dementia in the UK...
Early onset familial Alzheimer's disease: Mutation frequency in 31 familiesJ C Janssen
Dementia Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Neurology 60:235-9. 2003..There may be a further genetic factor involved in the etiology of autosomal dominant early onset AD...
Increased S100beta in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with frontotemporal dementiaA J Green
Department of Neuroimmunology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Neurosci Lett 235:5-8. 1997..001). There was no correlation between age at disease onset, disease severity or length of illness. The increased concentration of CSF S100beta seen in frontotemporal dementia may reflect the marked astrocytosis seen in this condition...
Increased tau in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's diseaseA J Green
Department of Neuroimmunology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Neurosci Lett 259:133-5. 1999..In neither disease did CSF tau correlate with disease severity as assessed by the Mini Mental State Examination score (MMSE). This study shows that CSF tau is significantly raised in patients with frontotemporal dementia...
Epilepsy presenting as AD: neuroimaging, electroclinical features, and response to treatmentP Høgh
Dementia Research Group, Department of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
Neurology 58:298-301. 2002..Memory functions improved with antiepileptic medication in all three patients. The demonstration of temporal lobe spike activity in patients with progressive memory impairment is an indication for a trial of antiepileptic medication...
Vulnerability to neuroleptic side effects in frontotemporal lobar degenerationY A L Pijnenburg
Department of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 18:67-72. 2003..We suggest that neuroleptics should be used cautiously in FTLD and treatment should be started at low doses avoiding depot preparations until further prospective studies have been performed...
Identification of congenital muscular dystonia 2 associated with an inherited GlyT2 defect in Belgian Blue cattle from the United KingdomJ L Gill
Department of Pharmacology, The School of Pharmacy, London, UK
Anim Genet 43:267-70. 2012....
A review and commentary on a sample of 15 UK guidelines for the drug treatment of Alzheimer's diseaseR J Harvey
Dementia Research Group, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:249-56. 1999..An independent review of guidelines available in the public domain was commissioned to provide an overview of the range and variability in the recommendations being made...
Chromosome 14 familial Alzheimer's disease: the clinical and neuropathological characteristics of a family with a leucine-->serine (L250S) substitution at codon 250 of the presenilin 1 geneR J Harvey
Dementia Research Group, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary s, London, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 64:44-9. 1998....
