TABLE OF CONTENTS December 2003 Volume 2, Issue 12 Contents In Full The Leading Edge Newsdesk Reflection and Reaction Review and Opinion Media Reviews The Last Word ADVERTISEMENT OVER 180 YEARS OF THE LANCET ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE! For the first time in medical history, researchers and scholars worldwide can now search the historical archive of over 340,000 articles dating from THE LANCET's inception in 1823. For more information on THE LANCET Backfiles on ScienceDirect visit: http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/backfiles/collections/lancet/index.sht ml The Leading Edge Always look a trojan horse in the mouth Back to top Newsdesk News in brief Nodding disease: mystery of southern Sudan Marc Lacey Neurologists say Florida woman is very unlikely to recover Ivan Oransky a-synuclein gene triplication discovered in Parkinson's disease Jane Bradbury Prion probing comes up with the goods Kathryn Senior Social rejection may be pain to the brain Adrian Burton Mutated mitochondrial serine protease causes neurodegeneration Sarah Archibald Monkeys use brain power to manoeuvre a robotic arm Marilynn Larkin Gene for rare ataxia identified in mouse studies Peter Hayward Taking a shot at neuropathic pain Lisa Melton Back to top Reflection and Reaction The International Classification of Headache Disorders: 2nd edition Jes Olesen, Peter Goadsby, Tim Steiner New discoveries about the second gene for familial hemiplegic migraine, ATP1A2 Kaate RJ Vanmolkot, Arn MJM van den Maagdenberg, Joost Haan, Michel D Ferrari Surgical treatment of tumoral temporal-lobe epilepsy Margitta Seeck Alzheimer's disease: the glycosaminoglycan sink Chiara Briani, Annachiara Cagnin, Gilberto Pizzolato Recently in The Lancet Back to top Review and Opinion Reviews Cognitive impairment during epileptiform discharges: is it ever justifiable to treat the EEG? Colin D Binnie Dystrophin and mutations: one gene, several proteins, multiple phenotypes rancesco Muntoni, Silvia Torelli, Alessandra Ferlini In-hospital stroke David J Blacker Functional roles and therapeutic targeting of gelatinase B and chemokines in multiple sclerosis Ghislain Opdenakker, Inge Nelissen, Jo Van Damme Back to top Personal view Human prion diseases: epidemiology and integrated risk assessment Markus Glatzel, Peter M Ott, Thomas Linder, Jan O Gebbers, Arnold Gmur, Werner Wust, Gerhard Huber, Holger Moch, Michael Podvinec, Bernhard Stamm, Adriano Aguzzi Back to top Historical review Epilepsy at the movies: possession to presidential assassination Sallie Baxendale Back to top Media Reviews Saunders Manual of Neurologic Practice Malcolm Macleod Assessment of Aphasia Apoorva Pauranik Back to top The Last Word Monkey business John McCrone Back to top C Elsevier Ltd You have been sent this message because you are a registered user of www.thelancet.com.