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Neurorehabilitation: Recovery advances through neuromodulation

Denis Larrivee

    Modern neurorehabilitation promises to revolutionize standard interventions for CNS impairments in domains traditionally dominated by physiotherapy. Functional neuroimaging models have greatly increased understanding of underlying mechanisms contributing to brain pathology, enabling improved diagnosis and targeted therapy.


Cardiac arrest soon after returning home in a patient who had received treatment for a convulsion

Youichi Yanagawa*; Kei Jitsuiki; Ken-ichi Muramatsu; Yoshihiro Kushida; Hiroki Nagasawa; Ikuto Takeuchi; Jun Shitara; Hiromichi Ohsaka; Kazuhiko Omori; Yasumasa Oode

    The patient was a 37-year-old woman with a past history of hypertension, convulsion, palpitation and depression who experienced tonic convulsion at her home. She was transported to our hospital. After the initial arrival, she had a 2nd convulsive episode in the emergency room. A neurologist checked her. As her vital signs were stable and she was free of neurological symptoms, the neurologist decided to discharge her to home...


GFPT1 gene related congenital myasthenic syndrome: A treatable disorder mimicking limb girdle muscular dystrophy

Bhawna Sharma; Kadam Nagpal*; Swayam Prakash; Ashok Panagariya

    The Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS) are a group of neuromuscular diseases caused by genetic defects of muscle endplate. Symptoms are present at birth but may go unrecognized until adolescence or adulthood when clinical manifestations are mild and progression is gradual. Autosomal recessive inheritance account for all genetic forms except for slow channel syndrome having an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance...


Difficulty in making differential diagnosis of Cervical Disc disease and shoulder discomfort

Ugur Ozdemir

    Objectives: Examination findings of cervical disc disease and shoulder disorders are similar. Therefore, it is difficult to distinguish these pathologies only by physical examination...


Cerebellar ganglioglioma in a young woman

El Hamrouni Ikram*; Raftopoulos Christian; Duprez Thierry; Wilms Guido

    We describe a rare case of a cerebellar ganglioglioma in a 31-year-old woman discovered incidentally during a CT scan of the parotid glands. CT and MRI features are not specific, with mixed cystic and solid components with calcifications. Although rare, our case demonstrates that cerebellar ganglioglioma must be considered in the differential diagnosis of infratentorial tumors in young adult patients...


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