OBJECTIVE During the past 2 decades, celiac disease (CD) has been recognized as a multisystem autoimmune disorder. A growing body of distinct neurologic conditions such as cerebellar ataxia, epilepsy, myoclonic ataxia, chronic neuropathies, and dementia have been reported, mainly in middle-aged adults. There still are insufficient data on the association of CD with various neurologic disorders ...

OBJECTIVE To perform the first prospective survey of neurologic and neurosurgical emergency department (ED) admissions in Haiti. METHODS Data of all ED admissions at 3 Haitian hospitals for 90 consecutive days per site were collected prospectively. Patients who were given a diagnosis of a neurologic or neurosurgical disorder by the ED physician were entered in a deidentified database includin...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Just as gastrointestinal dysfunction may develop in the setting of neurologic disease, neurologic dysfunction may become evident in the setting of gastrointestinal disease. This article describes the range of neurologic features that have been described in three primary gastrointestinal diseases: celiac disease and gluten-related disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, and Whip...

abstract acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (adem) is a rare immune mediated and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that usually affects children. it as a monophasic disorder related with multifocal neurologic symptoms. here in this paper we report seven cases of adem in pediatrics and besides a review of literatures are presented.

Visual loss is a common symptom in neurologic emergencies. Although ocular causes of visual loss are usually identifi ed by eye care specialists, many patients appear in an emergency department or a neurologist’s offi ce when the ocular examination is normal or when it suggests a neurologic disorder. Indeed, many causes of monocular or binocular acute visual loss may reveal or precede a neurolo...

We provide a narrative review of functional neurological disorder (FND, or conversion disorder) for the emergency department (ED). Diagnosis FND has shifted from “rule-out” to one now based on recognition positive clinical signs, allowing ED physician make suspected likely diagnosis FND. PubMed, Google Scholar, academic books, and hand search through article references were used conduct literat...

Mortality risk assessment of juvenile life insurance applicants with impairments can be challenging. Advances in neonatal care means more premature infants will survive into childhood and adulthood with attendant respiratory and neurologic disorders. The degree of neonatal lung disease and length of ventilator support are factors that help to separate out more favorable risks. Autism and other ...

Promising results in adult neurologic and psychiatric disorders are driving active research into transcranial brain stimulation techniques, particularly transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in childhood and adolescent syndromes. TMS has realistic utility as an experimental tool tested in a range of pediatric neuropathologies such as perinat...