The ring chromosome 20 syndrome is a rare syndrome characterized by intractable epilepsy with particular electro clinical features including episodes of prolonged confusional state and nocturnal frontal lobe seizures. We report a 17-year-old girl who had intractable epilepsy with frontal seizure and prolonged confusional state secondary to non-convulsive status epilepticus. The diagnosis of rin...

The Russian statistics demonstrate that in Russia, brain injuries are increasing every year what is particularly tragic if to speak about children. After traumatic injury (TBI), the process of consciousness restoration develops stages. In science, stages mental recovery adults described by neuropsychiatric group researchers from Burdenko Institute Neurosurgery. authors have introduced term amne...

A 69 year old man with longstanding migraine with aura had four episodes of psychosis lasting 7-28 days during a 17 year period. During attacks he had formed visual hallucination and delusions, including reduplicative paramnesia. His mother was similarly affected. His EEG showed symmetrical frontal delta waves. The time course and EEG changes are similar to acute confusional migraine. The redup...

Acta Neurologica Taiwanica Vol 16 No 3 September 2007 From the Departments of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University and Hospital, Kaushung, and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Yang-Ming Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. Reprint requests and correspondence to: A-Ching Chao, MD. Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University and Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected]...

Three patients presenting predominantly with acute confusional states (ACS) are shown to have infarctions in the distribution of the right middle cerebral artery. It is suggested that the main deficit in ACS is in the function of selective attention. On the basis of cortical connections of homologous areas in the monkey brain, it is argued that this deficit arises from lesions in convergence ar...