Thirty eight patients with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) were investigated. Five patients who previously had measles immunoglobulin M (IgM) detected in unfractionated serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) had measles IgM exclusively in the low molecular weight (LMW) fractions of serum and CSF. Measles IgM had previously not been found in unfractionated serum from 33 patients but was ...

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a rare degenerative disease of the central nervous system that affects primarily children and adolescents. It is a late manifestation of measles virus infection. In a 20-year period (1965-85) there have been 26 cases of SSPE in Northern Ireland, a frequency of approximately one case per 1.2 million population per year. Males were affected more frequ...

By means of RT-PCR, a portion of measles virus (MV) mRNA encoding nucleoprotein (NP) could be detected in 11 (18%) of 61 brain tissue samples obtained from administrative autopsy cases, who apparently had not suffered from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)-like central nervous system disorders. Most of the brain-derived NP sequences showed significant asynonymous nucleotide substitutio...

Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis is a rare panencephalitis that can present with severe cardiac dysrhythmias. We present a case of a 19-year-old woman with no significant medical history who presented with progressive changes in mental status and profound ictal asystole that necessitated the placement of an external temporary pacemaker. She was diagnosed with and treated f...

The presence of differential item functioning (DIF) in a test suggests bias that could disadvantage members of a certain group. Previous work with tests of visual learning abilities found significant DIF related to age groups in a car test (Lee, Cho, McGugin, Van Gulick, & Gauthier, 2015), but not in a face test (Cho et al., 2015). The presence of age DIF is a threat to the validity of the test...

Joseph Vidal-Rosset. Does Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Prove That Truth Transcends Proof ?. Johan van Benthem, Gerhard Heinzmann, Manuel Rebuschi, Henk Visser The Age of Alternative Logics Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today, 23, Springer Netherlands, pp.51-73, 2006, <10.1007/978-1-4020-50127 5>. . <h...

A scaling consideration of the Kondo lattices is performed with account of logarithmic Van Hove singularities (VHS) in the electron density of states. The scaling trajectories are presented for different magnetic phases. It is demonstrated that VHS lead to a considerable increase of the non-Fermi-liquid behavior region owing to softening of magnon branches during the renormalization process. Al...