TS is a familial, neurologic disorder characterized by childhood onset of motor and vocal tics. The tics are typically rapid, stereotyped movements with eye blinking and head and facial movements, as well as vo
Although the etiology of attention-deficit–hyperactivity disorder is multifactorial, sleep problems in this group of children are common. The behavioral effects of sleep fragmentation are different in children and adults. Most adults and older, usually obese, adolescents complain of excessive daytime sle...
Long COVID Is Not a Functional Neurologic Disorder. J. Pers. Med. 2024, 14, 799. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/jpm14080799 Academic Editor: Igor Elman Abstract: Long COVID is a common sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Data from numerous scien- tific studies indicate that long COVID involves...
A disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement, often including tremors. Does not make enough dopamine Tourette syndrome involuntary, spasmodic, twitching movements; uncontrollable vocal sounds; and inappropriate words "Tics" myasthenia gravis ...
Tourettism refers to Tourette-like symptoms that result from another neurologic disorder or use of a medication; tourettism also includes the repetitive gestural movements and/or phonatory sounds that patients with chorea make. Unlike true tics, the pseudo-tics of Huntington disease cannot be...
If family history suggests a hereditary disorder, genetic testing If findings suggest polyneuropathy, other tests (see table Some Causes of Muscle Weakness) If myopathy is unexplained by drugs, metabolic, or endocrine disorders, possibly muscle biopsy Treatment of Weakness Causes of muscle weakness are...
The technique is described by Bianchi et al.5 Tetraparesis (i.e., paresis involving all four limbs) can reflect a C1-T2 abnormality or an intracranial or multifocal disorder. Spinal lesions cranial to C5 often manifest with UMN deficits in all four limbs, whereas a C6-T2 lesion often ...
6.1. Is CRPS an autoimmune or autoinflammatory disorder? Although there have been suggestions that CRPS may have an immune pathogenesis or that it is an autoimmune disease, the evidence for this claim is weak to this point. Autoantibodies directed against the autonomic nervous system and its compon...
Simple motor tics are common, affecting up to 1% to 2% of school-age children. The association of rapid-onset tics associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in the context of recovery from streptococcal infection (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infe...
No participants were excluded from the study after screening other than individuals who, upon screening, provided different responses that made them ineligible (e.g., developing a physiological disorder). 2.2. Thermal and pressure stimulation We delivered thermal stimulation to multiple skin sites using...