NEUROENDOCRINE DISTURBANCES FOLLOWING HEAD INJURIES

On Trade-Like Movements Following Head Injuries

The following observations refer to a short series of cases, in which patients, after sustaining severe head injuries, exhibited certain peculiar rhythmical and co-ordinated movements, which, when carefully observed and analysed, turned out to be simply reproductions of the actions habitually gone through by them in the pursuit of their several trades. Observation I.?A strong, muscular young ma...

Neuroendocrine Disturbances in Huntington's Disease

BACKGROUND Huntington's disease (HD) is a severe inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized, in addition to neurological impairment, by weight loss suggesting endocrine disturbances. The aims of this study were to look for neuroendocrine disturbances in patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and to determine the relationship with weight loss seen in HD METHODS AND FINDING: We compared ...

Some aspects of electroencephalographic disturbances following head injury.

Reproductive disturbances in multiple neuroendocrine tumor syndromes.

In the context of multiple neuroendocrine tumor syndromes, reproductive abnormalities may occur via a number of different mechanisms, such as hyperprolactinemia, increased GH/IGF-1 levels, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, hypercortisolism, hyperandrogenism, hyperthyroidism, gonadotropin hypersecretion, as well as, tumorigenesis or functional disturbances in gonads or other reproductive organs. Pr...

Head Injuries

A combination of multiple injury types are typically involved in combat-related head injuries. Innovations in firearms, has led to new types of brain injuries from which we are able to learn much about how the brain responds to trauma. Traumatic brain injury is physical injury to brain tissue that temporarily or permanently impairs brain function. Initial treatment consists of ensuring a reliab...