A 10-year-old male presented with vision loss and behavioral changes. He had midpoint pupils with no reaction to light and normal funduscopic examination. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging revealed bilateral cortical lesions at parieto-occipital lobes. Elevated measles antibody titers in the cerebrospinal fluid confirmed the diagnosis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. Despite oral inosip...

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) are two rare diseases which may present with similar symptoms and signs. We report a case with coexisting PRES and CVST in a 34 years old postpartum female presented with multiple episodes of generalized seizures and bilateral vision loss after delivery. MRI brain and venography revealed left transve...

Sturge-Weber syndrome, encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis, is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by a facial cutaneous vascular nevus, seizures, mental retardation, hemiplegia, homonymous hemianopia, and buphthalmos or glaucoma (1). The clinical findings are related to vascular anomalies of the face, ocular choroid, and leptomeninges. The imaging findings in Sturge-Weber syndrome may include...

PURPOSE Some studies suggest that the pattern of glucose hypometabolism relates not only to the ictal-onset zone but also reflects seizure propagation. We investigated metabolic changes in patients with occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) that may reflect propagation of ictal discharge during seizures with automatisms. METHODS Fifteen patients who had undergone epilepsy surgery for intractable OLE ...

We evaluated the spatiotemporal distribution of photic driving (PDR), photoparoxysmal (PPR), and photoconvulsive (PCR) responses recorded by intracranial electrodes (ic-EEG) in a patient with generalized photosensitivity and right frontal lobe cortical dysplasia. Intermittent light stimulation (ILS) was performed thirteen times in nine days. Cortical responses to ILS recorded by ic-EEG were rev...

We analyze the respective roles of neuro-imaging and EEG in the assessment of 11 children with holoprosencephaly and epilepsy. Seizures were present in seven patients (64%); six were treated with antiepileptic drugs; five had intractable epilepsy. Two of the patients with intractable epilepsy became seizure-free under polytherapy. Fourteen EEG recordings were performed in eight patients. The ab...

Figure 1. Cerebral magnetic resonance imaging showed a wide signal intensity abnormality involving the fronto-parietal and occipital cortex as well as the subcortical white matter. A 17-year-old girl with chronic myeloid leukemia that transformed to acute myeloid leukemia was referred to our department to undergo umbilical cord blood stem cell transplantation. Conditioning consisted of fludarab...

Case presentation: A 7 month-old was admitted for presenting a clinical condition suggestive of an Inborn Error metabolism, as she showed development delay, early onset refractory seizures and generalized dystonia associated with infectious events. After 3 years, remained unresponsive to treatment, over 15 tonic-clonic events per day, complementary exams were nonspecific, EEG left temporo-occip...

Brucellosis is one of the most common zoonotic infection worldwide and endemic in Turkey. It constitutes an important public health problem, especially in rural areas. Brucellosis primarily occurs in animals and it is transmitted to humans by direct contact with infected animals or ingestion of unpasteurized milk and milk products.1 Brucellosis is a multisystem disease and the clinical features...

During a police chase on foot, a previously well police officer was hit mistakenly by a taser shot meant for the suspect. The taser gun had been fired once, sending 2 barbed darts into his upper back and occiput. Within seconds, the officer collapsed and experienced a generalized tonic-clonic seizure with loss of consciousness and postictal confusion. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging scans...