Background: World Health Organization declared pandemic phase of human infection with novel influenza A (H1N1) in April 2009. There are very few reports about the neurological complications of H1N1 virus infection in the literature. Occasionally, these complications are severe and even fatal in some individuals. The aims of this study were to report neurological complaints and/or complications ...

BACKGROUND Since the 1991 Gulf War, concerns have been voiced about the effects on the health of veterans of Gulf War related medical and chemical exposures. METHODS Our cross-sectional study compared 1424 male Australian Gulf War veterans and a randomly sampled military comparison group (n = 1548). A postal questionnaire asked about the presence of current neurological type symptoms, medical...

BACKGROUND Neurological soft signs preceding adult-onset schizophrenia suggest a neurodevelopmental origin and could reflect physical illness in childhood. AIMS To investigate possible associations of adult-onset psychosis with neurological soft signs and common infectious illnesses in childhood. METHOD Using data from the UK National Child Development Study, a longitudinal general populati...

Results Performances ontests reflecting executive function andverbal memory (butnot attention) were significantlypoorer inthe bipolardisorder group.Sub-syndromalmood symptoms produced small cognitive effects, predominantlyonverbalmemory.Soft neurological signs, especially frontal signs, weremarked; somepatients showed marked social disability which correlated strongly with soft neurological sig...

BACKGROUND Neurological soft signs are subtle but observable impairments in motor and sensory functions that are not localized to a specific area of the brain. Neurological soft signs are common in schizophrenia. It has been established that soft signs meet two of five criteria for an endophenotype, namely: association with the illness, and state independence. This review investigated whether s...