The present study aims at evaluating the role of evoked potentials (ABR, VEP, P300, motor threshold), and EEG in understanding the pathogenesis of migraine and to detect if there is a functional abnormalities in cortical electrical activity. The study was carried out on 50 patients (30 females and 20 males) and 25 age and sex matched normal controls. The clinical classification of migraine stud...

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Background: Autonomic responses fol low exposure to conditioned stimuli such as contextual factors associated with alcohol ingestion. Heart rate variabili O, is under autonomic control and may be a measure o f such response. Methods: Twenty alcoholics and 23 matched social drinkers (all male) were exposed to a neutral cue and then an ah'ohol cue in identical settings, during which the electroca...

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Objectives & Aim of the Study: Evidence for the higher prevalence of NSS in schizophrenics and their 1 degree relatives is substantial whereas evidence for the specificity of the subtypes of the NSS is relatively sparse. This study was performed to find out if there is a subset of NSS discriminating 1 degree relatives of schizophrenic when compared with 1 degree relatives of bipolar disorder pa...

Background: A decompressive craniotomy can relieve critically increased intracranial pressure. Objective: to assess the postoperative clinical outcome and compare it with other series. Methods: (a) patient selection: patients presented to the Neuroemergency unit in Kasr El-Eini Hospitals from January 2006 to December 2007 with traumatic brain injury and fulfilling the following criteria 1) clin...

Background: Oromandibular dystonia is a focal or segmental cranio-cervical dystonia, with diverse incapacitating clinical manifestations. Though botulinum toxin injection has emerged as an effective symptomatic treatment; yet, many unanswered questions are not addressed by the current available studies. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) treatment in patients ...

Monique Ernst: Pet in Child Psychiatry: The Risks and Benefits of Studying Normal Healthy Children. Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacol. & Biol. Psychiat. 1999,23, pp. 56~~70. Published by Eloevler Science Inc. 1. Inclusion of children, particularly healthy control children, is a continuing debate. 2. Why involve children in PET research? The assumption is that the knowledge gained from such studies is...

Biochemical markers for Alzheimer disease would be of great value, especially to help in early diagnosis of the disease. The current study has focused on three candidates that have been suggested to be indulged in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’ disease (AD): Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) activity, β-amyloid42 (Aβ 42) and total T-tau (T-tau). The study included 15 patients with probable AD, 15 p...