PURPOSE Determine muscle and neuronal autoantibody frequencies in patients with thymoma, with and without paraneoplastic neurological accompaniments. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Analysis of IgG autoantibodies in stored serum collected between 1985 and 2003 from 201 patients with histologically diagnosed thymoma (including six with thymic carcinoma). Contemporary assays quantitated antibodies reactive...

background: it is mostly organic diseases that are considered when a neurological sign or symptom is present in the history of a patient; however, there may be psychiatric problems also present which could be missed. we report a case to discuss the possibility of the presence of an organic or psychiatric underlying disorder when facing neurological problems. case presentation: we report a case ...

AIM: This study was conducted to determine the incidence of Gravitational Insecurity in individuals with Specific Learning Disorder.
 MATERIAL AND METHODS: We included 99 children, 65 boys and 34 girls, diagnosed Disorder our study. All children participating were attending a special education rehabilitation center. Physically independent without any orthopedic or neurological diagnosis ot...

polyomaviruses may cause human disease, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. jcv, one of the members of polyomaviridae family, is the causative agent of the neurological disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml), which occurs mostly in immunocompromised patients. progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml) is a progressive demyelinating disorder of the central nervous sy...

Modern psychiatric diagnostic systems classify neurological symptoms that cannot be explained by a physical disease or another psychiatric disorder as conversion disorder (CD) or dissociative motor disorder. It is a well-known fact that the overall rate of misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms is high. The most common presenting symptoms of misdiagnosed patients are gait and movement disturbances...

A prospective study was undertaken in fifty patients who were diagnosed to have major affective disorder, to assess the prevalence of neurological soft signs, their localization and their correlation with response to treatment. Neurological soft signs have been shown to be very common in major affective disorder. They were mainly localized in the temporal and parietal lobes. There was no differ...

OBJECTIVE To report an unusual presenting manifestation of multiple sclerosis in a teenager. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 16-year-old male who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder a year prior to his neurological consultation. Neurological examination showed evidence of mild lower extremity spasticity with ataxia and dysarthria. Imaging revealed lesions suggestive of multiple sc...

Background: Development of autoimmune neurological disorders after Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported. Though many cases multiple sclerosis developing COVID-19 are present in current literature, Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) is much rarer sequela the disease.