Neurological assessment was carried out on patients with schizophrenia from multiply and singly affected families, their relatives, and a normal control group (214 subjects). A systematic examination was used in which abnormal signs were divided into 'primary' and 'integrative' signs. Primary signs were elicited by a standard clinical neurological examination and included signs of focal damage ...

BACKGROUND Ascending/descending myelomalacia (ADMM) is a severe complication of thoracolumbar intervertebral disk herniation (TL-IVDH) in dogs. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence and risk factors for ADMM in nonambulatory dogs with surgically treated TL-IVDH. ANIMALS Six-hundred and fifty-two client-owned dogs evaluated for TL-IVDH that underwent decompressive spinal surger...

BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) patients with related leg pain have a more severe profile than those with local LBP and a worse prognosis. Pain location above or below the knee and the presence of neurological signs differentiate patients with different profiles, but knowledge about the prognostic value of these subgroups is sparse. The objectives of this study were (1) to investigate whether su...

Abstract Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric with multiple psychopathological domains; so studying the correlation of clinical or behavioral data underlying structural and functional neurological findings in BPD focus interest recent years. The aim our study was to compare presence soft signs (NSS) patients borderline their normal controls, correlate severit...