Neuro-Ophthalmological Findings in Friedreich’s Ataxia

Dysarthria in Friedreichs Ataxia: A Perceptual Analysis

The aims of this study were to: (1) evaluate the perceptual speech dimensions, speech intelligibility and dys arthria severity of a group of individuals diagnosed with Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA); (2) determine the presence of subgroups within FRDA dysarthria; (3) investigate the relationship between the speech outcome and the clinical factors of disease progression. The study included 38 indivi...

Some neuro-ophthalmological observations.

Some neuro-ophthalmological problems.

HAVING been associated with the Neurosurgical Unit of the Richmond Hospital for 25 years, I feel that the time is opportune to cast my memory back and recall some of my experiences which may be of interest. If I succeed in making it clear to the neurosurgeons that the ophthalmologist has a useful contribution to make in the assessment ofmany of their problems, and to the ophthalmologist that he...

Neuro-ophthalmological syndromes for neurologists.

Correspondence to: Dr David Perkin, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, St Dunstan’s Road, London W6 8RP, UK; d.perkin@imperial. ac.uk _________________________ T he conditions or syndromes to be considered in this article are summarised in table 1. Many are seen relatively infrequently in neurological practice. Among 4000 successi...

Ophthalmological findings in myotonic dystrophy.

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article by Ikeda et al. concerning ophthalmological findings in myotonic dystrophy (MD)1. We would like to thank the authors, because they cited a study we published in 2009, where we tried to understand the reasons for low intraocular pressure (IOP) in these patients. Our first goal was to check if this was a real hypotony or if it was related to an...