Epileptic nystagmus (EN) is a rare form of nystagmus that occurs only during epileptic seizures. We report an infantile case in which EN was first noted at 10 days of age. Electronystagmography showed a right-beating nystagmus with predominantly linear slow phases that traversed the midline. Neuro-imaging revealed dysplasia of the left middle temporal gyrus extending posteriorly into the pariet...

We report on a 64 year-old woman presenting with Epilepsia Partialis Continua (EPC) affecting the left hand since the age of 24 without neurological deficit. Structural MRI showed a region of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) over the right central gyrus and lesions in the mesial frontal and occipital cortex secondary to perinatal hypoxic injury. Ictal spike haemodynamic mapping using simultaneous...

A 7-year-old boy with a history of spasticity, global developmental delay, and seizures was given the general diagnosis of cerebral palsy at an early age. Chromosomal array analysis performed at an outside center was normal. The patient's family sought neurodevelopmental pediatric care at a new institution following a move out of state. Electroencephalography confirmed abnormal epileptogenic ac...

We present a clinico-pathological case report in which both cortical dysplasia and epilepsy coexisted: a 30 year old male who was dead on arrival at hospital. One and a half hours earlier he had developed complex partial status with peri-oral cyanosis. At post mortem examination his brain showed bilateral occipital frontal polymicrogyria with unlayered neuronal migration disorder; in other part...

OBJECTIVES Autistic disorder is a developmental handicap with an unknown neurological basis. Current neuropsychological models for autism suggest an abnormal construction of visual perceptual representation or a deficit in executive functions. These models predict cerebral lesions in the temporo-occipital or frontal regions of autistic patients. The present study aimed at studying the presence ...

BACKGROUND A family case report of cleidocranial dysplasia (CCD) with varied manifestations from father to three siblings is presented. CCD ( MIM # 119600) is a rare autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia caused by CBAF1 gene ( OMIM 600211) with a wide range of variability. In all the cases generalized dysplasia in bone, prolonged retention of primary teeth and delayed eruption of permanent teet...

Neurofibromatosis 1, an autosomal dominant neurocutaneous disorder characterized by café-au-lait macules, Lisch nodules, neurofibromas, and learning disabilities, affects approximately 1 in 3000 people. Unlike other neurocutaneous disorders such as tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy is not a common clinical feature, occurring in 3.8–7% of NF1 patients. Rarely, case reports have described patients wit...

Meckel syndrome (MKS) is a lethal, autosomal recessive condition characterised by an occipital meningoencephalocele, enlarged kidneys with multicystic dysplasia, fibrotic changes of the liver in the portal area with ductal proliferation, and postaxial polydactyly. Recently, a MKS gene has been mapped to chromosome 17q21-q24 in Finnish families, with no evidence of locus heterogeneity in this po...

Methods: With IRB approval, 22 patients (11M, 11F: age 4 to 149 months) with syndromic craniosynostosis (3 Apert, 4 Pfeiffer, 4 Muenke, 3 Crouzon, 2 chromosomal anomaly, 1 craniofrontonasal dysplasia, 5 unknown) underwent PVD for correction of elevated intracranial pressure (n=12) and/ or correction of turribrachycephaly (n=16). Morphometric analysis of sequential CT scout radiographs and later...