• Brain tumours in the Western Cape Province of South Africa : a plea for a dedicated brain tumour registry in Africa 

  Basson, Dion; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Van Coller, Riaan; Gould, Trevor (Wits University Press, 2024-07-08)

  BACKGROUND: Epidemiological data on brain tumours provides valuable insight into risk factors, treatment modalities and prognoses of these tumours. Despite abundant epidemiological data from brain tumour registries in ...
• Elevated factor VIII level in cerebral venous thrombosis : a case-control study 

  Bhagwan, Bhavin; Pillay, Manesh; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Masenge, Andries; Kakaza, Mandisa (Wits University Press, 2024-07-08)

  BACKGROUND: Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is an uncommon disorder accounting for approximately 1% of strokes worldwide There is a paucity of data regarding the association between an elevated factor VIII level and ...
• Non-motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease : underdiagnosed yet important 

  Boura, Iro; Poplawska-Domaszewicz, Karolina; Spanaki, Cleanthe; Chen, Rosabel; Urso, Daniele; Van Coller, Riaan; Storch, Alexander; Chaudhuri, Kallol Ray (Korean Movement Disorder Society, 2025-01)

  Non-motor fluctuations (NMFs) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) significantly affect patients’ well-being. Despite being identified over two decades ago, NMFs remain largely underrecognized, undertreated, and poorly understood. ...
• Atypical presentations of Huntington disease-like 2 in South African individuals 

  Narotam-Jeena, Heena; Guttman, Mark; Van Hillegondsberg, Ludo; Van Coller, Riaan; Krause, Amanda; Carr, Jonathan (Wiley, 2024-07)

  BACKGROUND : Huntington disease-like 2 (HDL2) is a neurodegenerative disorder, affecting only individuals of African ancestry. Full penetrance occurs in individuals with 40 repeats or more. OBJECTIVE : To describe the ...
• Short-term changes in hypsarrhythmia assessed by spectral analysis : group and individual assessments 

  Farinha, Jessica M.; Bartel, Peter R.; Becker, Piet J.; Hazelhurst, Lynton T. (Sage, 2024)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• Addressing the gap for racially diverse research involvement : the King's model for minority ethnic research participant recruitment 

  Chaudhuri, K.Ray; Podlewska, A.; Lau, Yue Hui; Gonde, C.; McIntosh, A.; Qamar, M.A.; O’Donoghue, S.; Larcombe, K.; Adeeko, M.; Gupta, A.; Bajwah, S.; Lafond, S.; Awogbemila, O.; Van Coller, Riaan; Murtagh, A.M.; Ocloo, J.E. (Elsevier, 2023-12)

  OBJECTIVES : Ethnic minorities (EM) are still underrepresented in research recruitment. Despite wide literature outlining the barriers, enablers and recommendations for driving inclusion and diversity in research, there ...
• Lentiform fork sign on magnetic resonance imaging after methamphetamine and alcohol misuse 

  Hiesgen, Juliane; Badenhorst, Jacques (American Medical Association, 2023-04)

  A 37-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 3-day history of acute blindness. He had delayed the consultation because of the belief that the symptoms were transient adverse reactions from an overuse of ...
• PTPA variants and impaired PP2A activity in early-onset Parkinsonism with intellectual disability 

  Fevga, Christina; Tesson, Christelle; Mascaro, Ana Carreras; Courtin, Thomas; Van Coller, Riaan; Sakka, Salma; Ferraro, Federico; Farhat, Nouha; Bardien, Soraya; Damak, Mariem; Carr, Jonathan; Ferrien, Melanie; Boumeester, Valerie; Hundscheid, Jasmijn; Grillenzoni, Nicola; Kessissoglou, Irini A.; Kuipers, Demy J.S.; Quadri, Marialuisa; French and Mediterranean Parkinson disease Genetics Study Group, International Parkinsonism Genetics Network; Corvol, Jean-Christophe; Mhiri, Chokri; Hassan, Bassem A.; Lesage, Suzanne; Mandemakers, Wim; Brice, Alexis; Bonifati, Vincenzo (Oxford University Press, 2023-04)

  The protein phosphatase 2A complex (PP2A), the major Ser/Thr phosphatase in the brain, is involved in a number of signalling pathways and functions, including the regulation of crucial proteins for neurodegeneration, such ...
• Guest editorial : Autoimmune encephalitis 

  Hiesgen, Juliane; Schutte, Clara-Maria (South African Medical Association, 2023-03)

  Since the identification of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibodies about 15 years ago, many patients with rapidly progressing psychiatric symptoms, abnormal movements, seizures or unexplained coma, have been ...
• Autoimmune encephalitis : epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (Part 1) 

  Hiesgen, Juliane; Schutte, Clara-Maria (South African Medical Association, 2023-03)

  Since the identification of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antibodies about 15 years ago, many patients with rapidly progressing psychiatric symptoms, abnormal movements, seizures or unexplained coma have been ...
• Autoimmune encephalitis : epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical spectrum (Part 2) 

  Hiesgen, J.; Schutte, Clara-Maria (South African Medical Association, 2023-04)

  Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) represents a growing number of severe autoimmune-inflammatory diseases affecting both the white and grey matter of the brain. In part 1 of this series, we focused on the epidemiology, ...
• Late-onset efavirenz toxicity : a descriptive study from Pretoria, South Africa 

  Munsami, Lyneshree; Schutte, Clara-Maria; De Villiers, Maryke; Hiesgen, Juliane (AOSIS, 2023-01-19)

  BACKGROUND : The neuropsychiatric side effects of efavirenz occur mainly early during treatment and are usually mild. A lesser-known and serious complication is late-onset efavirenz toxicity causing ataxia and encephalopathy. ...
• Fiat lux : light and pedagogy for the 21st century 

  Lech, James C.; Halma, Matthew T.J.; Obajuluwa, Adejoke O.; Baker, Malcolm Kevin; Hamblin, Michael R. (Sage, 2023-04)

  BACKGROUND : The relationship between the quality of the learning environment and student outcomes is receiving more serious attention from educational psychologists, neurologists, ophthalmologists, orthopedists, surgeons, ...
• Efficacy of deep brain stimulation of the anterior-medial globus pallidus internus in tic and non-tic related symptomatology in refractory Tourette syndrome 

  Kisten, Ravendran; Van Coller, Riaan; Cassimjee, Nafisa; Lubbe, Elsabeth (Elsa); Vaidyanathan, Janardan; Slabbert, Pieter; Enslin, Nico; Schutte, Clara-Maria (Elsevier, 2022)

  INTRODUCTION : Although refractory Tourette Syndrome (TS) is rare, it poses great challenges in clinical practice. Co-morbid psychiatric symptoms often occur, negatively impacting quality of life. Deep brain stimulation ...
• Acute obstructive hydrocephalus in posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome 

  Hiesgen, Juliane; Annor, T.N. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-01)

  Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is an uncommon, subacute neurological disorder that presents radiologically with a pattern of bilateral parieto-occipital areas of vasogenic oedema. Conditions commonly ...
• Neuro-Behcet – clinical and radiological findings in a patient of sub-Saharan African origin 

  Pretorius, Johannes Jacobus; Hiesgen, Juliane; Myburgh, Michael; Suleman, Farhana Ebrahim (Elsevier, 2022-03)

  Behçet’s disease is a rare, systemic variable vessel vasculitis mostly seen in patients from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia. Neuro-Behçet disease (NBD) is often diagnosed in patients with known Behçet’s ...
• Developing and testing a South African Brief Cognitive Score in literate and illiterate people of mixed language groups 

  Schutte, Clara-Maria; Tsikane, Mukhethwa; Nchoe, Keorapetse (AOSIS, 2021-05-27)

  BACKGROUND: The Folstein mini mental state exam (MMSE) is the most commonly administered assessment of cognitive functioning; however, its utility in illiterate individuals is limited. In South Africa, more than eight ...
• TOR1A mutation-related isolated childhood-onset generalised dystonia in South Africa 

  Van Coller, Riaan; Schutte, Clara-Maria; Lubbe, Elsabeth (Elsa); Ngele, B. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-10)

  BACKGROUND : Childhood-onset generalised dystonia is commonly caused by TOR1A mutations and is known to respond well to pallidal deep-brain stimulation (DBS) surgery. The incidence and prevalence of monogenic dystonia in ...
• The HGR motif is the antiangiogenic determinant of vasoinhibin : implications for a therapeutic orally active oligopeptide 

  Pablo Robles, Juan; Zamora, Magdalena; Siqueiros-Marquez, Lourdes; Adan-Castro, Elva; Ramirez-Hernandez, Gabriela; Freinet Nunez, Francisco; Lopez-Casillas, Fernando; Millar, Robert P.; Bertsch, Thomas; Martínez de la Escalera, Gonzalo; Triebel, Jakob; Clapp, Carmen (Springer, 2022-02)

  The hormone prolactin acquires antiangiogenic and antivasopermeability properties after undergoing proteolytic cleavage to vasoinhibin, an endogenous prolactin fragment of 123 or more amino acids that inhibits the action ...
• Movement of prion-like α-synuclein along the gut–brain axis in Parkinson's disease : a potential target of curcumin treatment 

  Chetty, Devina; Abrahams, Shameemah; Van Coller, Riaan; Carr, Jonathan; Kenyon, Colin; Bardien, Soraya (Wiley, 2021-07)

  A pathological hallmark of the neurodegenerative disorder, Parkinson's disease (PD), is aggregation of toxic forms of the presynaptic protein, α-synuclein in structures known as Lewy bodies. α-Synuclein pathology is found ...

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