Objective
 In this study, the anatomical localization and
 distribution of intracranial calcifications detected on
 brain computed tomography (CT) were determined
 and their relationship with age gender was
 investigated.
 Material Method
 Images 887 patients who underwent CT
 examinations for various reasons between March
 2010 May 2013 analyzed. 12...

Dense symmetrical calcification of the corpus striatum is rare, but of some general interest for two reasons. First, in a significant number of the reported cases this apparently degenerative condition is closely linked with a metabolic disorder, hypoparathyroidism, which may be idiopathic, parathyroprivic, or of the variety in which the parathyroid glands are histologically normal but the body...

Postoperative hypoparathyroidism (POH) is the most common complication after bilateral thyroid surgery and it characterized by low serum calcium levels with inappropriately parathyroid hormone (PTH) level. Several risk factors have been described, including technical issues (inadvertent gland excision or devascularization) patient- disease-related (sex, type of disease). Surgical strategies to ...

Computed tomographic (CT) findings of cerebral and cerebellar calcification are described in three American adults with raised serum lead levels and known exposure to lead for 30 or more years. Calcification patterns were punctiform, curvilinear, speck-like, and diffuse and were found in the subcortical area, basal ganglia, vermis, and cerebellum. Admission serum lead levels ranged from 54 to 7...

The outbreak of the post-streptococcal neurological disorders related to the antibasal ganglia antibodies is broadening. In addition to the disorders such as chorea and obsessive-compulsive disorder which have been recognized previously, the movement and behavioral abnormalities are the other aspects of post-streptococcal neurological disorders.  Streptococcus is a positive-gram and coccus...

Objectives: The basal ganglia (BG) controls different patterns of behavior by receiving inputs from sensory-motor and pre-motor cortex and projecting it to pre-frontal, pre-motor and supplementary motor areas. As the exact role of BG in swallowing process has not been fully determined, we aimed at reviewing the published data on neurological control in the swallowing technique to have a better ...

Fahr's syndrome is a rare idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder which can present with wide spectrum of symptoms. It is characterized by bilateral symmetrical dystrophic intracranial calcification. It most commonly involves basal ganglia. A 30 years old male patient presented with progressive speech slurring and tremors of the right upper limb for last five years. His brain imaging studies reve...

Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited, immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disorder. The syndrome causes infantile-onset progressive encephalopathy characterized by the neuroradiologic features of basal ganglia and periventricular white matter calcification, leucodystrophy and cerebral atrophy. Lymphocytosis and elevated levels of interferon alpha (IFN-alpha...

Fahr’s syndrome refers to a rare syndrome characterized by symmetrical and bilateral intracranial calcification. We present a 24-year-old male with Fahr disease, presenting with psychosis and recurrent seizures of generalized tonic clonic type, but lacking evidence of a metabolic disorder. His neurological examination was normal. MRI Brain of the patient revealed symmetrical large areas and foc...

Now, that the last of the submissions have been reviewed and accepted for publication, the 46 articles resulting from IBAGS X have been sorted into 7 topics (Basal Ganglia Electrophysiology, Basal Ganglia Pharmacology, Basal Ganglia Anatomy, Genetic Models of Basal Ganglia Disorders, Basal Ganglia Function in Health and Disease, Learning in the Basal Ganglia and Computational Approaches to the ...