Key Publications

Stroke Prevention Subtheme


Rothwell PM. Carotid stenting: more risky than endarterectomy and often no better than medical treatment alone. Lancet. 2010 Mar 20;375(9719):957-9.

Rothwell PM. Limitations of the usual blood-pressure hypothesis and importance of variability, instability, and episodic hypertension. Lancet. 2010 Mar 13;375(9718):938-48.

Rothwell PM, Howard SC, Dolan E, O'Brien E, Dobson JE, Dahlof B, et al. Effects of beta blockers and calcium-channel blockers on within-individual variability in blood pressure and risk of stroke. Lancet Neurol. 2010 May;9(5):469-80.

Rothwell PM, Howard SC, Dolan E, O'Brien E, Dobson JE, Dahlof B, et al. Prognostic significance of visit-to-visit variability, maximum systolic blood pressure, and episodic hypertension. Lancet. 2010 Mar 13;375(9718):895-905.

Rothwell PM, Giles MF, Chandratheva A, Marquardt L, Geraghty O, Redgrave JNE, Lovelock CE, Binney LE, Bull LM, Cuthbertson FC, Welch SJV, Bosch S, Carasco-Alexander F, Silver LE, Gutnikov SA, Mehta Z, on behalf of the Early use of Existing Preventive Strategies for Stroke (EXPRESS) Study. Major reduction in risk of early recurrent stroke by urgent treatment of TIA and minor stroke:  EXPRESS Study.  Lancet 2007; 370: 1432-42.

Lasserson DS, Chandratheva A, Giles MF, Mant D, Rothwell PM. Influence of general practice opening hours on delay in seeking medical attention after transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and minor stroke: prospective population based study. BMJ 2008 Sep 18;337:a1569. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a1569.

Lewis SC, Warlow CP, Bodenham AR, Colam B, Rothwell PM, Torgerson D, Dellagrammaticas D, Horrocks M, Liapis C, Banning AP, Gough M, Gough MJ.GALA Trial Collaborative Group. General anaesthesia versus local anaesthesia for carotid surgery (GALA): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2009; 372: 2132-42.

van Beijnum J, Lovelock CE, Cordonnier C, Rothwell PM, Klijn CJ, Salman RA; on behalf of the SIVMS Steering Committee and the Oxford Vascular Study. Outcome after spontaneous and arteriovenous malformation-related intracerebral haemorrhage: population-based studies. Brain 2008 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print]

Flossmann E, Redgrave JN, Briley D, Rothwell PM. Reliability of clinical diagnosis of the symptomatic vascular territory in patients with recent transient ischemic attack or minor stroke. Stroke 2008; 39: 2457-60.

Kunicki TJ, Williams SA, Nugent DJ, Harrison P, Segal HC, Syed A, Rothwell PM. Lack of association between aspirin responsiveness and seven candidate gene haplotypes in patients with symptomatic vascular disease. Thromb Haemost 2009; 101: 123-33.

Harrison P, Segal H, Silver L, Syed A, Cuthbertson FC, Rothwell PM. Lack of reproducibility of assessment of aspirin responsiveness by optical aggregometry and two platelet function tests. Platelets 2008; 19:119-24

Giles MF, Rothwell PM. Transient ischaemic attack: clinical relevance, risk prediction and urgency of secondary prevention. Curr Opin Neurol 2009, 22:46-53

Luengo-Fernandez R, Gray AM, Rothwell PM. Impact of urgent treatment for TIA and minor stroke on disability and hospital costs: the EXPRESS study. Lancet Neurology 2009 (in press)

A Banerjee, LE Silver, C Heneghan, SJV Welch, LM Bull, Z Mehta, Banning AP, PM Rothwell. Sex-specific familial clustering of myocardial infarction in patients with acute coronary syndromes. Circulation (cardiovascular Genetics) 2009 (in press)

Chandratheva A, Mehta Z, Geraghty OC, Marquardt L, Rothwell PM. Population-based study of risk and predictors of stroke in the first few hours after a TIA. Neurology 2009 (in press)

Winwood C, Cuthbertson F, Sackley C, Rothwell PM. A population-based study of the prevalence of fatigue following TIA and minor stroke. Stroke 2009 (in press)

Lovelock CE, Redgrave JN, Briley D, Rothwell PM. Reliable estimation of the proportion of minor stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage. International Journal of Stroke 2009 (in press)

Lovelock CE, Redgrave JN, Briley D, Rothwell PM. The SCAN rule - a clinical rule to reduce CT misdiagnosis of intracerebral haemorrhage in minor stroke. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2009 (in press)

Giles MF, Rothwell PM. Risk prediction after TIA: the ABCD system and other methods. Geriatrics 2008; 63:10-6.

Giles MF. Stroke risk and health behaviour. BMJ (In press)

Pendlebury ST, Rothwell PM. Risk of recurrent stroke, other vascular events and dementia after TIA and stroke. Cerebrovascular Disease 2009 (in press).

Acute stroke / imaging subtheme

MacIntosh BJ, Pattinson KT, Gallichan D, Ahmad I, Miller KL, Feinberg DA, et al. Measuring the effects of remifentanil on cerebral blood flow and arterial arrival time using 3D GRASE MRI with pulsed arterial spin labelling. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2008; 28:1514-22.

MacIntosh BJ, McIlroy WE, Mraz R, Staines WR, Black SE, Graham SJ. Electrodermal recording and fMRI to inform sensorimotor recovery in stroke patients. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2008; 22:728-36.

Reckless I, Nagel S & Buchan A. Setting up an Acute Stroke Service. International Journal of Stroke 2008; 3: 182-187.

Reckless IP. Good Doctors, Safer Patients ­ Supportive Managers. Clinical Leader 2008; 1: 21-26.

Reckless IP & Buchan AM. Stroke: management and prevention. Medicine 2008, 36:11, 592-600.

Reckless IP, Buchan AM. Progress in Stroke. In: Horizons in Medicine Volume 20 (Editor: Prof P Mathieson). Royal College of Physicians, London, ISBN 13: 978-1-86016-343-2, Published December 2008

Stroke recovery subtheme

Crofts JJ, Higham DJ, Bosnell R, Jbabdi S, Matthews PM, Behrens TEJ, Johansen-Berg H. Network analysis detects changes in the contralesional hemisphere following stroke. Neuroimage. In press.  

Johansen-Berg H, Scholz J, Stagg CJ. Relevance of structural brain connectivity to learning and recovery from stroke. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. In press.

Stepens A, Stagg CJ, Platkājis A, Boudrias M-H, Johansen-Berg H, Donaghy M. White matter abnormalities in Methcathinone abusers with an extrapyramidal syndrome. Brain in press.

Stagg CJ & Nitsche MA. The physiological basis of tDCS. The Neuroscientist in press.

Stagg CJ. Transcranial Stimulation as a potential therapeutic intervention in chronic stroke. Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation. In press.

Stagg CJ, O’Shea J, Johansen-Berg H. Imaging the effects of rTMS-induced cortical plasticity. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 28. 1059-80. 2010.

Cheeran B, Koch G, Stagg CJ, Baig F, Teo J. Transcranial magnetic stimulation: from neurophysiology to pharmacology, molecular biology and genomics. The Neuroscientist. 16(3): 201-21. 2010

Constantinescu A, Ilie A, Moldovan M, & Stagg CJ. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): A promising new tool to facilitate rehabilitation of manual dexterity after stroke. Romanian Journal of Neurology 9(3) 118-123. 2010

Stagg C, O’Shea J, Kincses T, Matthews PM and Johansen-Berg H.  Modulation of movement-associated cortical activation by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). European Journal of Neuoscience. 30. 1412-23. 2009

Dennis A, Bosnell R, Dawes H, Howells K, Cockburn J, Kischka U, Matthews PM, Johansen-Berg H. Cognitive context determines premotor and prefrontal brain activity during hand movement in patients after stroke. Stroke. In press

Stagg CJ, Best JG, Stephenson MC, O’Shea J, Wylezinska M, Kincses ZT, Morris PG, Matthews PM, Johansen-Berg H. Polarity-sensitive modulation of cortical neurotransmitters by transcranial stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience. 29. 5202-6.  2009

Aimola Davies AM, Davies M. Explaining pathologies of belief. In: Broome M, Bortolotti L. (eds.) Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience: Philosophical perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2009. pp. 285-323.

Aimola Davies AM, Davies M, Ogden JA, Smithson M, White RC. Cognitive and motivational factors in anosognosia. In: Bayne TJ, Fernandez, J. (eds.) Delusions and self-deception: Affective influences on belief formation. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press; 2009. pp. 187-225.

Aimola Davies AM, White RC, Davies M. Assessment of anosognosia for motor impairments. In: Gurd JM, Kischka U, Marshall JC. (eds.) Handbook of clinical neuropsychology. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010. pp. 436-468.

Aimola Davies AM, White RC, Thew G, Aimola NMV, Davies, M. Visual capture of action, experience of ownership and the illusion of self-touch: A new rubber hand paradigm. Perception 2010;39:830-838.

White RC, Aimola Davies AM, Halleen TJ, Davies, M. Tactile expectations and the perception of self-touch: An investigation using the rubber hand paradigm. Consciousness and Cognition 2010;19:505-519.

White RC, Aimola Davies AM. Errors of somatosensory localisation in a patient with right-hemisphere stroke. Neurocase 2010;16:238-258.

White RC, Aimola Davies AM, Kischka U, Davies M. Touch and feel: Using the rubber hand paradigm to investigate self-touch enhancement in five right-hemisphere stroke patients. Neuropsychologia 2010;48:26-37.