Brain Matters

After you've read the Top Resources, you're ready to move on to more challenging reading:

"Clinical outcomes of progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy"
Brain (2008), 131, 1362-1372.  O'Sullivan SS, Massey LA, Williams DR, Silveira-Moriyama L, Kempster PA, Holton JL, Revesz T, Lees AJ.
This is one of the most important articles written about PSP.  It describes the "clinical outcomes" of 110 pathologically-confirmed cases of PSP.
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PSP Rating Scale
By Dr. Lawrence Golbe
https://www.psp.org/materials/rating_scale.pdf

emedicine Info on PSP
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1151430-overview

"Characteristics of two distinct clinical phenotypes in pathologically proven progressive supranuclear palsy: Richardson's syndrome and PSP-parkinsonism"
Brain. 2005 Jun;128(Pt 6):1247-58.  Williams DR, de Silva R, Paviour DC, Pittman A, Watt HC, Kilford L, Holton JL, Revesz T, Lees AJ. 
This was the first article that described the two common types of PSP -- Richardson's Syndrome and PSP-Parkinsonism.
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"Progressive supranuclear palsy: clinicopathological concepts and diagnostic challenges"
Lancet Neurology. 2009 Mar;8(3):270-9.  Williams DR, Lees AJ.
This article describes five types of PSP -- Richardson's Syndrome, PSP-Parkinsonism, PSP-Pure akinesia with gait freezing, PSP-Corticobasal syndrome, and Progressive non-fluent aphasia.
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