Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common inflammatory neurological diseases which leads to a highly heterogeneous set symptoms and signs due differential involvement motor, sensory, visual, autonomic systems [...]

Asthma prevalence has increased over the last fifty years, but the more recent changes have not been conclusively determined. Studies in children indicate that a plateau in the prevalence of asthma may have been reached, but this has not yet been confirmed in adults. Epidemiological studies have suggested that the prevalence of asthma in adults is approximately 7-10% in different parts of the w...

Part I of this series presented a review of the literature on Burning Mouth Symptoms (BMS) focusing on its prevalence, its symptoms, and proposed local etiologic factors associated with the condition. Part II will focus on the possible systemic and psychological etiologic factors in order to provide the dental clinician with a perspective on the alternative factors that may cause BMS.

The study presented here is the first detailed nosographic analysis of migraine aura, diagnosed using the criteria of the International Headache Society, in a sufficiently large sample for statistical analysis. Of 4,000 people, 163 had migraine with aura. Sixty-two had attacks of migraine aura with headache as well as migraine aura without headache, and seven had exclusively migraine aura witho...

Visual impairments are not the core symptoms in PD, but gain in significance when accompanied by exacerbation of the primary symptoms, since visual impairments reduce compensation and adaptation the patient to motor disturbances. Most frequent complaints include fuzzy vision, photophobia, asthenopia (with eye fatigue, often accompanied by headache and blurred vision). Patients with PD often fin...

Twenty patients with complex neuropsychologic symptoms associated with classic migraine were selected from a group of 200 patients with vascular headache. Twenty types of symptoms were found and grouped into six categories (language, visual symptoms, cognitive-dysmnesic symptoms, olfactory-gustatory hallucinations, automatisms, and somatosensory symptoms). Some of the symptoms found have appare...

An autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) patient with metachronous and multiple extrapancreatic lesions is reported. Initial symptoms were proptosis, oculomotor deficits, and a visual field deficit of the left eye, and swelling of bilateral lacrimal glands. Swelling of the right salivary gland and elevated serum levels of hepatobiliary enzymes were detected. AIP associated with IgG4-related orbital pse...

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong illness with a course that is usually chronic or recurrent. Severity of complications is generally proportionate to the number of episodes, especially depression. In addition to potentially preventing episodes, effective treatment reduces mortality. This article reviews long-term treatment strategies for bipolar disorder, focusing on depressive episodes, and discu...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to present 2 children with visual hallucinations possibly associated with clarithromycin administration at therapeutic dosage. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Two children were admitted to our hospital with sudden onset of visual hallucinations after taking clarithromycin at therapeutic dosage by mouth. Physical examination, laboratory investigations and imaging studies were normal...