Neurological Disorders Clinical Guidelines
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Headaches: Diagnosis and management of headaches in young people and adults
Sep 2012Headaches are one of the most common neurological problems presented to GPs and neurologists. They are painful and..
Alteplase for treating acute ischaemic stroke
Sep 2012Alteplase (Actilyse, Boehringer Ingelheim) is a tissue plasminogen activator manufactured by recombinant DNA technology...
Spasticity in children and young people with non-progressive brain disorders: Management of spasticity and co-existing motor disorders and their early musculoskeletal complications
Jul 2012This guideline covers the management of spasticity and co-existing motor disorders and their early musculoskeletal..
Autism: recognition, referral, diagnosis and management of adults on the autism spectrum
Jun 2012Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, the core features of which are persistent difficulties in social..
Guideline for the diagnosis and management of myelofibrosis
Mar 2012The objective of this guideline is to provide healthcare professionals with clear guidance on the investigation and..
EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Wilson’s disease
Feb 2012This Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) has been developed to assist physicians and other healthcare providers in the..
The epilepsies: the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies in adults and children in primary and secondary care
Jan 2012This guideline offers best practice advice on the care of children, young people and adults with epilepsy...
Autism: Recognition, referral and diagnosis of children and young people on the autism spectrum
Sep 2011This guideline covers the recognition, referral and diagnosis of autism in children and young people from birth up to 19..
Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfuction
Jan 2011The purpose of these clinical guidelines is to provide useful information for clinical practitioners on the incidence,..
Alcohol - related seizures
Jan 2011These guidelines summarize the current evidence for the diagnosis and management of alcohol - related seizures...
Cerebral vasculitis
Jan 2011Cerebral vasculitis is an uncommon disorder that offers unusual problems for the neurologist. It is notoriously..
Cluster headache and other trigemino- autonomic cephalgias
Jan 2011These guidelines aim to give evidence - based recommendations for the treatment of cluster headache attacks, for the..
EFNS guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of primary dystonias
Jan 2011This guideline makes evidence-based recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of primary dystonias..
Treatment of medication overuse headache – guideline of the EFNS headache panel
Jan 2011This guideline aims to give recommendations for the treatment of medication overuse headache (MOH) as classified by the..
Treatment of miscellaneous idiopathic headache disorders (group 4 of the IHS classification) – Report of an EFNS task force
Jan 2011To give expert recommendations for the different drug and non-drug treatment procedures of these different headache..
Use of anti - interferon beta antibody measurements in multiple sclerosis
Jan 2011The objectives of our task force were to: (i) evaluate differences in immunogenicity of IFN β products; (ii) evaluate..
Use of imaging in m ultiple sclerosis
Jan 2011Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) has proven to be sensitive for detecting multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions..
Management of narcolepsy in adults
Jan 2011The treatments used for narcolepsy, either pharmacological or behavioural, are diverse. However, the quality of the..
Early (uncomplicated) Parkinson’s disease
Jan 2011This chapter provides these scientifi cally supported treatment recommendations...
Late (complicated) Parkinson’s disease
Jan 2011Patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) may suffer from any combination of motor and non - motor problems...
Post-polio syndrome
Jan 2011The aim was to revise the existing EFNS task force document, with regard to a common defi nition of PPS, and evaluation..
UK Guidelines for the Management of Pituitary Apoplexy
Oct 2010It is hoped that the document will provide guidance for physicians, endocrinologists, neurosurgeons and..
EFNS guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease
Oct 2010The aim of this revised international guideline was to present a peer-reviewed evidence-based statement for the guidance..
Guidelines for All Healthcare Professionals in the Diagnosis and Management of : Migraine / Tension-Type Headache / Cluster Headache / Medication-Overuse Headache
Sep 2010The purpose of these guidelines is to suggest strategies of management for the common headache disorders that have been..
The management of bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children and young people younger than 16 years in primary and secondary care
Jun 2010This guideline offers best practice advice on the care of children and young people younger than 16 years with bacterial..
Management of patients with stroke: identification and management of dysphagia
Jun 2010This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the identification and management..
Management of patients with stroke: Rehabilitation, prevention and management of complications, and discharge planning
Jun 2010The aim of this national guideline is to assist individual clinicians, primary care teams and hospital departments to..
Neuropathic pain - the pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in adults in non-specialist settings
Mar 2010The full guideline on the pharmacological management of neuropathic pain in adults in non-specialist settings. It..
Guideline on management of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
Mar 2010The EFNS/PNS consensus guideline was designed to offer diagnostic criteria to balance more evenly specificity, which..
Guidelines for treatment of autoimmune neuromuscular transmission disorders
Feb 2010Important progress has been made in our understanding of the autoimmune neuromuscular transmission (NMT) disorders;..
Therapeutic endoscopic division of epidural adhesions
Feb 2010The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued full guidance to the NHS in England, Wales,..
EFNS guideline on the treatment of cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis in adult patients
Jan 2010The aim of the present Task Force was to review the strength of evidence to support these interventions and the..
EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment
Jan 2010We have revised the previous EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain (NP) assessment, which aimed to provide recommendations..
EFNS guideline on the management of status epilepticus in adults
Jan 2010Recommendations are based on this literature and on our judgement of the relevance of the references to the subject...
Diagnosis and pharmacological management of Parkinson’s disease
Jan 2010This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the diagnosis and pharmacological..
Management of attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in children and young people
Oct 2009The overall aim of this national guideline update is to provide a framework for evidence based assessment and management..
ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope
Jan 2009Syncope is a T-LOC due to transient global cerebral hypoperfusion characterized by rapid onset, short duration, and..
Management of patients with stroke or TIA: assessment, investigation, immediate management and secondary prevention
Dec 2008This guideline replaces SIGN 13 Management of patients with stroke I: Assessment, investigation, immediate management..
Diagnosis and management of headache in adults. A national clinical guideline
Nov 2008This guideline provides recommendations based on evidence for best practice in the diagnosis and management of headache..
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Diagnosis and management of ADHD in children, young people and adults
Sep 2008This guideline makes recommendations for the diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)..
Headache in children
Jan 2008Headache is a common problem in children. Studies of prevalence of any type of headache have shown that up to 50% of..
Chronic fatigue syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis
Aug 2007The guideline covers care provided by healthcare professionals who have direct contact with and make decisions about the..
Assessment, diagnosis and clinical interventions for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders
Jul 2007This guideline focuses on assessment, diagnosis and clinical interventions for ASD. It considers the evidence for joint..
Parkinson's disease: National clinical guideline for diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care
Jan 2007The NICE clinical guideline on Parkinson's disease covers: - the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and checking the..
Dementia: A NICE–SCIE Guideline on supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social care
Nov 2006This guideline has been developed to advise on supporting people with dementia and their carers in health and social..
Diagnosis and management of epilepsies in children and young people
Mar 2005This is an evidence based guideline covering the diagnosis and management of the epilepsies of children and young people..
Multiple sclerosis: National clinical guideline for diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care
Jan 2004The guideline has been developed by National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions (NCC-CC) with a commission from..
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