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January 03, 2017; 88 (1) In Focus

Spotlight on the January 3 Issue

Robert A. Gross
First published December 26, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000003450
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Spotlight on the January 3 Issue
Robert A. Gross
Neurology Jan 2017, 88 (1) 1; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003450

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  • NB: “Pregnancy outcome following maternal exposure to pregabalin may call for concern,” see p. e5. To check out other Resident & Fellow Journal Club articles, point your browser to Neurology.org and click on the link to the Resident & Fellow Section. At the end of the issue, check out the NeuroImage discussing lingual epilepsia partialis continua in neurocysticercosis and another on identification of aberrant white matter bundles entering the inferior cerebellar peduncle. This week also includes a Resident & Fellow Child Neurology article titled “Sjögren-Larsson syndrome.”

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