BACKGROUND Hemichorea and other hyperkinetic movement disorders are uncommon present-ations of stroke and are usually secondary to deep infarctions affecting the basal ganglia and thalamus.Therefore,temporal ischemic ...
This study was conducted with the approval of the ethics committee of Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine(approval No.2023-GAKY-KS-XYQ).The patient gave explicit informed consent to report her clinical case.
BACKGROUND Pediatric-onset systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE)is typically more severe than adult-onset SLE,with a higher incidence of nervous system involvement.Chorea is a relatively rare neurological complication rep...
Introduction: Post-streptococcal chorea is the most common form of acquired chorea in children. Objective: The objective of this study was to contribute to better management of this condition by giving the characteris...
Hemichorea associated with non-ketotic hyperglycemia(HC-NH)is a rare disease.The purpose of this case report is to introduce a patient with HC-NH and provide a schedule of examination and follow-up treatment.We also r...
Introduction: Chronic exposure to organic solvents may result in a variety of neurologic complications like dementia, cerebellar dysfunction, pyramidal syndrome, cranial nerve abnormalities, and neuropathy. Clinical P...
the programs for the postdoctoral fellowships-Chilean CONICYT-FONDECYT#3140218,Mexican CONACYT#164978 and DID-UACh S-2015-81;Sistema Nacional de Investigadores#58512 to Abraham Rosas-Arellano;supported by USACH PhD fellowship;supported with a PhD fellowship from CONACYT(#299627);FONDECYT grants 1151206 and 1110571 to Maite A.Castro
γ-Aminobutyric acid(GABA),plays a key role in all stages of life,also is considered the main inhibitory neurotransmitter.GABA activates two kind of membrane receptors known as GABAA and GABAB,the first one is respo...
Diabetic chorea (DC) is a rare complication of diabetes. Here we describe two cases of DC;patient 1 was an 87-year-old woman with chronic kidney disease and was administered with sulphonylurea and dipeptidylpeptodase-...
Movement disorders of paraneoplastic etiology are very rare,representing solely about 1%of all paraneoplastic neurological syndromes.^([1])The most frequently associated carcinoma is small-cell lung cancer,although se...
This study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China
We report a rare case about chorea in a Chinese adult after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) with deep hypothermia and circulatory arrest.A 41-year-old male was admitted to our hospital because of breathing dif...
Recent morphological studies in schizophrenia suggest atrophic changes in the neuropil of the prefrontal cortex. Most recently, we showed a schizophrenia-associated decrease in MAP2 in schizophrenia, which we believed...