Social cognition researchers have become increasingly interested in the ways that behavioral, physiological, and neural coupling facilitate social interaction and interpersonal understanding. We distinguish two ways of conceptualizing the role of such coupling processes in social cognition: strong and moderate interactionism. According to strong interactionism (SI), low-level coupling processes...

Introduction. Bilateral facial nerve palsy (FNP) is a rare condition, representing less than 2% of all cases of FNP. Majority of these patients have underlying medical conditions, ranging from neurologic, infectious, neoplastic, traumatic, or metabolic disorders. Objective. The differential diagnosis of its causes is extensive and hence can present as a diagnostic challenge. Emergency physician...

Dra. Edna Quintas – Serviço de Doenças Infecciosas / Hospital de São João Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro 4200-319 Porto Portugal. E-mail: edna19d@ hotmail.com Bilateral facial palsy is a rare clinical entity, which is often a special finding of a systemic disease, occurring in 0.3% to 2.0% of facial palsy cases. Many of them are potentially life-threatening, and therefore the condition requires urg...

[email protected] Phone no. +91 9501544877 Abstract Moebius and Poland syndromes are rare congenital anomalies. Poland syndrome (PS) is characterized by unilateral aplasia/hypoplasia of the breast and pectoralis muscle and ipsilateral deformities in the extremities. However, Moebius-Poland syndrome is rarer than the isolated syndromic conditions. Moebius syndrome is characterized by unilateral...

INTRODUCTION Tuberculous otitis media (TOM) is an uncommon, insidious, and frequently misdiagnosed form of tuberculosis (TB). In particular, TOM is usually secondary to direct transmission from adjacent organs, while the primary form has been rarely reported. The main aim of treatment is to start the patient on an antitubercular regime and early surgical intervention to decompress the facial ne...

BACKGROUND TNFα blockers have drastically improved rheumatoid arthritis prognosis by preventing joint destruction in DMARD resistant patients. Altering cytokine balance in immune diseases may expose to paradoxical adverse events. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 40-year-old woman, with a confirmed erosive and seropositive RA, successfully treated by TNFα blocker (etanercept) for sev...

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) causes necrotizing angitis mainly in medium-sized muscular arteries throughout the body, and various clinical signs and symptoms such as fever, malaise, weight loss, skin necrosis, renal failure, cerebral nervous system disorder, heart failure, and myalgia develop in affected patients. However, otolaryngologists rarely encounter patients with polyarteritis nodosa, exc...

Background Facial nerve paralysis in a patient with a salivary gland mass usually denotes malignancy. However, facial paralysis can also be caused by benign salivary gland tumors. Methods We present a case of facial nerve paralysis due to a benign salivary gland tumor that had the imaging characteristics of an intraparotid facial nerve schwannoma. Results The patient presented to our clinic 4 y...

Bilateral facial paralysis (BFP) is an uncommon condition that typically occurs as a manifestation of systemic disease. We present a female patient with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), particularly upper respiratory and ear impairment who develops hypoacusis and BFP, resistant to immunosuppressive therapy and steroid boluses. Her imaging tests showed no involvement of the facial nerve as it pass...

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis worldwide both in adult and pediatric population. Although flaccid paralysis is the hallmark of this disease, there are some rare variants which may be easily missed unless suspected. Here, we present a very rare variant of GBS - acute bulbar palsy plus syndrome in a pediatric patient. A 13-year-old female child p...