Cranioplasty Sinking Should Affect Normal Brain Function Mimicking Other Neurologic Illness: Fig 1.

Genes that Affect Brain Structure and Function Identified by Rare Variant Analyses of Mendelian Neurologic Disease

Development of the human nervous system involves complex interactions among fundamental cellular processes and requires a multitude of genes, many of which remain to be associated with human disease. We applied whole exome sequencing to 128 mostly consanguineous families with neurogenetic disorders that often included brain malformations. Rare variant analyses for both single nucleotide variant...

Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness

This book is appropriate for neurologists, surgeons, internists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, and nurses who manage or provide consultations for critically ill patients. It is a comprehensive and detailed reference of neurologic complications, and is helpful, well organized, and indexed. Pathophysiologic mechanisms are typeset differently throughout the text, which also makes for rapid refe...

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Neurologic and Other Disorders

Aphasia refers to a disorder of language processing caused by a dysfunction in specific brain regions. It is common after stroke and associated with relevant disability and higher mortality. Evaluation of language function (spontaneous speech, auditory comprehension, naming, repetition, reading and writing), allows classification of aphasia. Most patients present some degree of recovery. Speech...

Reperfusion Injury after Autologous Cranioplasty in a Patient with Sinking Skin Flap Syndrome

The sinking skin flap syndrome is a rare complication after a large craniectomy. It consists of a sunken skin above the bone defect with neurological symptoms such as severe headache, mental changes, focal deficits, or seizures. In patient with sinking skin flap syndrome, cerebral blood flow and cerebral metabolism are decreased by sinking skin flap syndrome, and it may cause the deterioration ...