The relationship between relapse and disability in multiple sclerosis

The relationship between relapse and disability in multiple sclerosis is unclear. Whilst natural history studies have confirmed the disabling effects of insidious disease progression they have suggested that relapse, the clinically defining feature of the majority of cases multiple sclerosis, is largely unrelated to disability. However the major therapeutic strategies currently in use against multiple sclerosis are known only to ameliorate relapses and their ability to prevent long term disability is not presently based on evidence but faith in a long presumed, but unproven relationship between relapse, disease progression and disability.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning presenting without a history of exposure: A case report

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Reversible grasp reflexes in normal pressure hydrocephalus

We present two cases of normal pressure hydrocephalus in combination with grasp reflexes. In both cases the grasp reflexes disappeared following high volume cerebrospinal fluid removal. In one of the cases the grasp reflexes returned over a period of weeks but again resolved following definitive cerebrospinal fluid shunting surgery, and remained absent until final follow up at 9 months. We hypothesise that resolving grasp reflexes following high volume CSF removal has both diagnostic and prognostic value in normal pressure hydrocephalus, encouraging larger studies on the relevance of primitive reflexes in NPH

Literacies and libraries - Archives and cybraries

As spatial repositories of dominant and marginalised, residual and emergent cultures, libraries remain key elements in the educational production and reproduction of knowledge and power. As working shrines for those canonical texts of modernity — the dictionary and the encyclopaedia — libraries are sites par excellence for applications of new literacies. This paper aims to redress their omission from the literature on literacy and education. Following a critique of current definitions of information literacy, the paper argues for a critical information literacy for navigation through textual and ideological complexity, diversity, ambiguity, and multiplicity