Patients with schizophrenia and related psychoses have an excess of minor neurological abnormalities (neurological soft signs) of unclear neuropathological origin. These include poor motor coordination, sensory perceptual difficulties and difficulties in sequencing complex motor tasks. Neurological soft signs seem not to reflect primary tract or nuclear pathology. It still has to be established...

celiac disease or gluten sensitivity may initially present as one or more neurological signs and/or symptoms. on the other hand, it may be associated with or complicated by neurological manifestations. neurological presentations are rare in children but as many as 36% of adult patients present with neurological changes. with severe malnutrition after progression of celiac disease, different vit...

There have been few longitudinal studies on sick building syndrome (SBS), which include headache, fatigue, and runny nose. We considered effect of sick building syndrome with illnesses like headache, fatigue and runny nose. Thus, we designed a questionnaire and asked from male of dormitory residence. Questions of the questionnaire were more about known symptoms of buildings (headache, fatigue, ...

AIMS (1) To examine the relation between neurological soft signs and measures of cognition, coordination, and behaviour in mainstream schoolchildren. (2) To determine whether high soft sign scores may predict children with significant problems in other areas. METHODS A total of 169 children aged between 8 and 13 years from mainstream schools were assessed. They form part of a larger study int...

Patients with schizophrenia often exhibit structural brain abnormalities, as well as neurological soft signs (NSS), consistent with its conceptualization as a neurodevelopmental disorder. NSS are mild, presumably nonlocalizing, neurological impairments that are inferred from performance deficits in domains such as sensory integration, motor coordination, and motor sequencing. The vulnerability ...

Numerous complex regulatory mechanisms influence the development and function of the peripheral and central nervous system. Among them, hormones belong to the most potent regulatory factors. Various particles known for their hormonal activity serve as neurotransmitters. Additionally, hormones secreted systemically modulate the function of the nervous system both on the brain level and in periph...

In the early 1960s a live BBC television broadcast on Parkinson's disease showed the moment of cessation of tremor in a patient undergoing stereotactic surgery. The importance of the physical sign not only in diagnosis but also, together with knowledge of anatomy, in understanding pathophysiology was made clear and a future addiction to physical signs primed in at least one viewer. Subsequent m...

St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) is a form of epidemic encephalitis named for a 1993 outbreak in that Missouri city when 11000 cases occurred; the fatality rate during this epidemic was ∼20% [1]. Although it is the most common type of viral encephalitis, !1% of patients present for medical attention [2]. Symptoms are usually nonspecific and consistent with those of viral meningitis. The virus causi...

Neurological soft signs (NSS) refer to subtle neurological abnormalities comprising deficits in sensory integration, motor coordination, or sequencing of complex motor acts. It is generally accepted that NSS are more prevalent in schizophrenia patients, including first -episode cases, than in healthy subjects. Moreover, NSS have been consistently demonstrated in neuroleptic naïve firstepisode p...