Pediatric neurological disorders including muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury are defined as a heterogenous group of diseases, of which some are known to be genetic. The two significant features represented for stem cells, leading to distinguish them from other cell types are addressed as below: they can renew themselves besides the ability to differentiate into cells wi...

Clinical neurological involvement at various times throughout the illness was recorded in 52% of 122 patients seen in central London who died from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Various metabolic encephalopathies, dementias, focal encephalopathies, retinopathies and peripheral nerve pathology were the most frequent manifestations. Seven of 9 patients with a neurological presentation...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common inflammatory neurological diseases which leads to a highly heterogeneous set symptoms and signs due differential involvement motor, sensory, visual, autonomic systems [...]

*Assistant Professor, **Associate Professor, ***Resident, ****Professor and Head, Psychiatry Dept, MGM Medical College, Navi-Mumbai Abstract Brain tumours have been notorious for masquerading as psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders like acute psychosis, schizophrenia, depression, mania and panic disorders have been described to be associated with brain tumors. We had a case of a patient...

The management of the Department of Emergency (ER) depends on greatly the views over the area which a hospital locates, and the organization of each hospital. The North American style ER has to treat many patients who show the neurological symptoms and neurological diseases. However, neurological examination is the special skill of the neurologist, and it takes long time to teach others. In our...

Introduction. Paraneoplastic syndromes represent rare symptom complexes resulting from the ability of tumour cells to disrupt the homeostatic processes of various bodily systems. Here we present two cases to demonstrate how such tumours may evade detection even after extensive investigation and how even relatively benign tumours can produce severe neurological symptoms. Case 1. A 69-year-old fe...

BACKGROUND The percentage of patients initially diagnosed with a conversion disorder and later identified as having an organic disorder has been decreasing in recent studies. METHOD Consecutive patients with a diagnosis of conversion disorder were referred for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Research questions were: (1) What incidence of neurological disorder is revealed by neurological ...

  Epidural abscess of the spinal column is a rare condition that can be fatal if left untreated. It promptly progresses and can cause neurologic paralysis, urinary retention or cauda equina syndrome. Compromised immune system that occurs in patients with diabetes mellitus, AIDS, chronic renal failure, alcoholism, or cancer is a predisposing factor. It mostly occurs in adults. Here we would like...

Neurocutaneous melanosis is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome defi ned by the presence of multiple and /or giant congenital cutaneous nevi and melanocytic deposits in the central nervous system with the infi ltration of leptomeninges. The major medical concern with giant congenital cutaneous nevi is high risk of developing cutaneous melanoma, leptomeningeal melanoma, and neurocutaneous melanosis. ...

we describe a 69-year-old-woman with antecedent of breast cancer and recent transitory neurological symptoms. physical examination showed yellow to orange skin pigmentation, more conspicuous on her palms and soles, while discoloration changes were absent in the eye and oral mucous membranes. routine laboratory findings were not indicative of hemolytic anemia, liver or bile disorders, nephrotic ...