A 69-year-old male presented with 15 years duration of progressive unsteadiness gait, incoordination in upper limbs, and mild cognitive impairment. He required assistance to walk 10 into the illness. also had multiple lipomas around his shoulders neck that were noticed since 40 age; several them been removed surgically past. There was no history visual or hearing impairment, loss consciousness,...

Agnė Pacevičiūtė1, Austėja Malinauskaitė1, Irina Mitkienė2 1Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty Medicine 2S. Kudirka District Hospital Alytus Abstract Introduction: restless leg syndrome (RLS) is a movement disorder characterized by an uncontrolled desire to move due unpleasant, sometimes painful sensation in the legs. Two forms disease are distinguished: primary,...

Periodic migrainous neuralgia is a clearly defined syndrome and excellent descriptions of it have been given by a number of authors (Harris, 1926, 1936 ; Horton et al., 1939 ; Horton, 1941 ; Ekbom, 1947; Kunkle et al., 1952; Symonds, 1956; Bickerstaff, 1959). Its clinical features are usually so characteristic that its diagnosis should present no more difficulty than that of trigeminal neuralgi...

Ekbom Syndrome is characterized by delusion that small living being infests skin. The clinical profile of this disorder has shown it to be associated with organic conditions. Neuroimaging studies implicate putamen as the brain structure involved in the pathophysiology. These are also known as organic delusional disorder and provide an opportunity to study biological causation of delusional diso...

The emergence of new effective therapies for idiopathic restless legs syndrome (iRLS) or Willis–Ekbom disease (WED) during the last 15 years resulted in an exponential increase of reports regarding this syndrome and, especially, treatment options. In this review, we summarise the main findings related to neuropharmacological aspects and non-pharmacological therapies of idiopathic RLS (iRLS). As...

The use of eponyms in neurology remains controversial, and important questions have been raised about their appropriateness. Different approaches have been taken, with some eponyms being excluded, others replaced, and new ones being created. An example is Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome, which has been replaced by neurodegeneration with brain iron accuulatium (NBIA). Amiothoplic lateral sclerosys (...