While a tumour in or abutting primary motor cortex leads to motor weakness, how tumours elsewhere in the frontal or parietal lobes affect functional connectivity in a weak patient is less clear. We hypothesized that diminished functional connectivity in a distributed network of motor centres would correlate with motor weakness in subjects with brain masses. Furthermore, we hypothesized that int...

BACKGROUND Conversion disorder (motor type) describes weakness that is not due to recognized disease or conscious simulation but instead is thought to be a "psychogenic" phenomenon. It is a common clinical problem in neurology but its neural correlates remain poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To compare the neural correlates of unilateral functional weakness in conversion disorder with those in he...

OBJECTIVE To identify the optimal factors in diffusion tensor imaging for predicting corticospinal tract (CST) injury caused by brain tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective study included 33 patients with motor weakness and 64 patients with normal motor function. The movement of the CST, minimum distance between the CST and the tumor, and relative fractional anisotropy (rFA) of the CS...

in most industrial applications, including overhead cranes, two motors with equal speeds are required. to meet this, different traditional and modern methods are used. in the modern methods, work is done with more precision but the cost is remarkably high, also the maintenance of equipment needs specialized personnel. among traditional methods, the two-motors selsyn method is noteworthy due to ...

In this report we describe the outcome of a consensus meeting that occurred at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, March 12 through 14, 2005. The meeting brought together 39 specialists from multiple clinical and research disciplines including developmental pediatrics, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physical medicine and...

Respiratory failure is rarely a presenting symptom of motor neuron disease. Seven patients with motor neuron disease who presented with acute respiratory failure of unknown cause and required mechanical ventilation were studied. They all had symptoms and signs suggestive of diaphragmatic weakness. Respiratory involvement seemed disproportionately severe, as six were ambulatory and only three no...

Introduction. Histopathological findings of various inclusions were reported in the central nervous system amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients but not peripheral nerves. Case report. We present a 66-year-old man with lower limb weakness, later development weakness upper limbs and loss sphincter control. Neurological examination showed affection both motor neurons. He had paresthesia on...

Cerebral palsy (CP) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are neuromuscular disorders characterized by muscle weakness. Weakness in CP has neural and non-neural components, whereas in DMD, weakness can be considered as a predominantly non-neural problem. Despite the different underlying causes, weakness is a constraint for the central nervous system when controlling gait. CP demonstrates decrea...