In 1917, Von Economo described a disease named "Encephalitis Lethargica" which affected a large number of patients across the world in an epidemic between 1916 and 1927. It's spread paralleled with the spread of the pandemic influenza, but Von Economo and the contemporary authors did not believe it to be a post-influenzal sequela. Now parkinsonism is a well-known complication of acute infectiou...

Seroepidemiological investigations were done during the study of viral encephalitis in and around Karachi, Pakistan. Serum and /or cerebrospinaF fluid (CSF) from 352 persons (72 patients with encephalitis, 199 patients without neurological disease and 81 healthy volunteers) were collected during the period from June, 1983 to March, 1984. Of 72 encephalitis patients, serum antibody positivity ra...

Encephalitis lethargica (EL) was named and described by Von Economo in 1916, and further detailed in a monograph in 1931 [1] following the pandemic of 1919 to 1926, but for many years was regarded as a phenomenon of the past. In recent years there has been a recurrence of interest in the disease, concerning aetiology and links with post encephalitic parkinsonism. Oliver Sacks described awakenin...

The wide spectrum of neurological presentations of nervous distemper, granulomatous meningoencephalitis (GME), and necrotizing encephalitis (NE) may complicate their clinical diagnosis. In addition, although there are some differences, distemper encephalitis, NE, and GME share similar histological changes such non-suppurative inflammation. Further, necrotic lesions may be present in both distem...

West Nile virus (WNV) has re-emerged with a much wider geographic distribution and a higher incidence than ever. In spite of some recent reports on the neurological manifestations and EEG changes caused by WNV encephalitis, there are few data on the incidence of seizures, status epilepticus or post-encephalitic epilepsy. There is also no systematic review of EEG changes caused by WNV encephalit...

Objective To present and improve understanding of patient outcomes quality life post-autoimmune encephalitis. Background Patient outcome following encephalitis in particular autoimmune is not well understood. It only over the last 15 years that we knew, became able to test for, identify some these causes so there currently a small emerging literature about outcomes. Many papers talk or refer lo...

BACKGROUND We investigated a consecutive series of children with chronic enterocolitis and regressive developmental disorder. METHODS 12 children (mean age 6 years [range 3-10], 11 boys) were referred to a paediatric gastroenterology unit with a history of normal development followed by loss of acquired skills, including language, together with diarrhoea and abdominal pain. Children underwent...

how to cite this article: tavasoli ar, gharib b, alizadeh h, farshadmoghaddam h, memarian s, ashrafi mr, sharifzade m. brain on fires: super refractory seizure in a 7 year old boy. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4):80-85. abstract we present a 7 year old boy afflicted with super-refractory seizure that responded poorly to antiepileptic drugs and sustained a long course of hospitalization ...