We report a case of a 67-year-old woman with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and a history of neurocysticercosis. After her retirement she showed progressive behavioral changes and neuropsychiatric symptoms with relative preservation of cognitive functioning. During the next three years, the patient manifested progressive deterioration of verbal communication gradually evolving to mutism, a hallm...

An account is given of six cases of Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease confirmed at necropsy. The rapid fatal outcome within three months was typical of the variety designated subacute spongiform encephalopathy (Nevin-Jones). The characteristic EEG changes were found to be of great value in making an early diagnosis and, together with akinetic mutism and myoclonus, constituted an easily recognizable pic...

BACKGROUND Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease that almost always results in death in under a year from onset of symptoms. Here, we report four cases of CJD with different clinical presentations diagnosed at our institution over a 2-year period. CASES The first patient is an 82-year-old woman who presented with depression, cognitive decline...

Abstract OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the extent of participation barriers in patients with pediatric posterior fossa tumors (PFTs) at long-term follow-up. While most studies focus on pathobiological variables that promote occurrence adverse late effects, present analysis aims to investigate importance environmental variables. METHOD: Ten years after tumor diagnosis, 42 (mean age: 17 year...

Selective mutism (SM) occurs when a child persistently lacks speech in some social situations but not in others, despite the ability to use and comprehend language. While considered to be related to anxiety, SM is poorly understood and studies of SM children are often based on parent reports. This study developed a unique, non-verbally based assessment protocol for SM children in order to bette...

The clinical pattern of complete akinetic mutism (AM) was observed in a patient with a bilateral infarction of the anterior cerebral arteries extending to the rostral cingulate cortex and the supplementary motor areas. Since the patient was unable to produce any overt response, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to obtain information about cortical processing of stimuli. Oddball ta...

We examined differences among 158 children, 44 with selective mutism (SM; M = 8.2 years, SD = 3.4 years), 65 with mixed anxiety (MA; M = 8.9 years, SD = 3.2 years), and 49 community controls (M = 7.7 years, SD = 2.6 years) on primary caregiver, teacher, and child reports of behavioral and socio-emotional functioning. Children with SM were rated lower than controls on a range of social skills, b...

Delayed neurological deterioration after hypoxia is uncommon. Here we report a case of reversible delayed leukoencephalopathy following intravenous heroin intoxication with hypoxia. A 42-year-old man presented disturbed consciousness and unstable hemodynamic status after intravenous heroin injection. He made a good initial recovery after infection control and hemodynamic support. But his neurol...

This study explores the perspectives of social science experts on emergence family mutism resulting from misuse networking platforms. It also seeks to identify most effective intervention program restore Saudi Arabian bonds strained by excessive media use. research is theoretically grounded in cognitive framework clinical sociology. The researchers adopted a descriptive methodology and conducte...

In 1957 Jervell and Lange-Nielsen described a Norwegian family, with 4 sibs who all had deafmutism, an extraordinarily long Q-T interval, and fainting attacks. Levine and Woodworth described a new case in 1958. Fraser and colleagues (Fraser, Froggatt, and James, 1964a; Fraser, Froggatt, and Murphy, 1964b; Friedmann, Fraser, and Froggatt, 1966) carried out a survey in the U.K. of almost 1500 dea...