Fahr's syndrome is a rare neurological condition in which calcification of vessels in the basal ganglia and cerebellum usually occurs. Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) may be present, causing multiple organ complications by means of atherosclerosis. We report a case of Fahr's syndrome associated with hypoparathyroidism and IGT. We present the case of a 52-year-old man with Fahr's syndrome and I...

A 39-year-old woman was referred to the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Neurology clinic for follow-up of abnormal imaging findings. One month prior, she had been in a motor vehicle collision where she briefly lost consciousness. She was taken by ambulance to the emergency department where she was assessed and subsequently cleared of injuries. Non-contrast head computed tomogr...

To investigate emotion recognition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients without cognitive/behavioral deficits and its relationship with the integrity of basal ganglia, hippocampus amygdala.

abstract background: high resolution ct scan has made early diagnosis of intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) easier. posttraumatic intraventricular hemorrhage has been reported to a greater extent because of the ct scan. methods: 904 patients were admitted in the nsicu from march 2001 to march 2002 with severe closed head injury, of those only 31 patients with intraventricular hemorrhage (gcs les...

Progress in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the cardinal motor abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease (PD), in particular akinesia and bradykinesia and their treatment, has been remarkable. Notable accomplishments include insights into the functional organization of the basal ganglia and their place in the motor system as components of a family of parallel cortico-subcortical circu...

The basal ganglia, said Kinnear-Wilson in the 1920s, have all the clarity of a dark basement. And so it has remained for the better part of a century. There are now major new ideas about what these deeplying structures in the forebrain may be doing. Lesions of the basal ganglia lead to devastating motor disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. In addition, the basal ga...

In this review, the value of functional imaging for providing insight into the role of the basal ganglia in motor control is reviewed. Brain activation findings in normal subjects and Parkinson's disease patients are examined and evidence supporting the existence for functionally independent distributed basal ganglia-frontal loops is presented. It is argued that the basal ganglia probably act t...

That the basal ganglia are related to the control of movement has been known for a long time; diseases affecting primarily the basal ganglia lead to characteristic disturbances of movement and of resting muscle tone. Improved methods for tracing fiber connections have shown, however, that the main efferent connections of the basal ganglia do not descend to motor nuclei in the brain stem and spi...

The cortex constituting Broca’s area does not exist in isolation. Rather, like other cortical regions, Broca’s area is connected to other brain structures, which likely play closely related functional roles. This paper focuses on the basal ganglia, a set of subcortical structures that project through topographically organized “channels” via the thalamus to different frontal regions. It is hypot...

Though many causes have been considered from mental or anatomical viewpoint, the mechanism of stuttering is not known yet. One candidate for the stuttering occurrence is a dysfunction of basal ganglia. However the detailed relation between the basal ganglia dysfunction and the stuttering is not understood. In this study, based on anatomical, physiological and clinical evidences, we propose a fu...