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Paper bullets of the brain

James W Lance
Med J Aust 2003; 179 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05721.x
Published online: 1 December 2003

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?
                     — Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (II.iii.260)


  • Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW.


Correspondence: 

Acknowledgements: 

I am grateful to the Medical Illustration Unit of the Prince of Wales Hospital for preparation of these figures and for their constant support of our work over the years.

  • 1. Lance JW. Mentors in neuroscience. Peter Orlebar Bishop. J Clin Neurosci 2002; 9: 125-126.
  • 2. Noad KB, Lance JW. Familial myoclonic epilepsy and its association with cerebellar disturbance. Brain 1960; 83: 618-630.
  • 3. Selby G, Lance JW. Observations on 500 cases of migraine and allied vascular headache. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 1960; 23: 23-32.
  • 4. Lance JW, Adams RD. The syndrome of action or intention myoclonus as a sequel to hypoxic encephalopathy. Brain 1963; 86: 111-136.
  • 5. Lance JW, Schwab RS, Peterson EA. Action tremor and the cogwheel phenomenon in Parkinson’s disease. Brain 1963; 86: 95-110.
  • 6. Lance JW. The control of muscle tone, reflexes and movement: Robert Wartenberg Lecture. Neurology 1980; 30: 1303-1313.
  • 7. Lance JW, McLeod JG. A physiological approach to clinical neurology. 3rd ed. London: Butterworths, 1981.
  • 8. Anthony M, Hinterberger H, Lance JW. The possible relationship of serotonin to the migraine syndrome. Res Clin Stud Headache 1969; 2: 29-59.
  • 9. Goadsby PJ, Lance JW. Brainstem effects on intra- and extracerebral circulations. Relation to migraine and cluster headache. In: Olesen J, Edvinsson L, editors. Basic mechanisms of headache. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988: 413-427.
  • 10. Lance JW, Lambert GA, Goadsby PJ, Zagami AS. Contribution of experimental studies to understanding the pathophysiology of migraine. In: Sandler M, Collins GM, editors. Migraine: a spectrum of ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989: 21-39.
  • 11. Lance JW, Goadsby PJ. Mechanism and management of headache. 6th ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998.
  • 12. Lance JW, Curran D. Treatment of chronic tension headache. Lancet 1964; 1: 1236-1239.
  • 13. Anthony M, Lance JW. Monoamine oxidase inhibition in the treatment of migraine. Arch Neurol 1969; 21: 263-268.
  • 14. Lance JW. Unusual syndromes in neurological practice. Med J Aust 1984; 140: 409-416.
  • 15. Lance JW, Hinterberger H. Symptoms of pheochromocytoma with special reference to headache correlated with catecholamine production. Arch Neurol 1976; 33: 281-288.
  • 16. Lance JW. Familial paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis and its differentiation from related syndromes. Ann Neurol 1977; 2: 285-293.
  • 17. Lance JW, Drummond PD, Gandevia SC, Morris JG. Harlequin Syndrome : the sudden onset of unilateral flushing and sweating. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 1988; 51: 635-642.
  • 18. Drummond PD, Lance JW. Mechanisms of normal and abnormal facial flushing and sweating. In: Low PA, editor. Clinical autonomic disorders. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1997: 715-726.
  • 19. Lance JW. The red ear syndrome. Neurology 1996; 47: 617-620.
  • 20. Lance JW. Transient sensations of impending loss of consciousness (the ”blip” syndrome). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 1996; 60: 437-438.

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