Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
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A proposal that an endogenous benzodiazepine-like agent named endozepine-4 might be responsible for presentations of recurrent stupor has gained wide acceptance. A case of recurrent stupor over two decades is presented with many similarities to previous cases of "endozepine stupor". This case, however, was caused by exogenous benzodiazepine administration and serves as a warning to clinicians to beware of this diagnosis.
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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Mar 2004
Clinical TrialNeurophysiological testing correlates with clinical examination according to fibre type involvement and severity in sensory neuropathy.
To investigate a comprehensive battery of neurophysiological tests for objective evaluation of sensory neuropathies including fibre type involvement and severity, and to determine the relation between neurophysiological data and clinical examination. ⋯ The correlation between clinical examination and the results of an original neurophysiological test battery offers a comprehensive clinical and neurophysiological approach to the objective assessment of peripheral neuropathies according to fibre type involvement and overall severity.
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J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. · Mar 2004
Unilateral posterior parietal lobe lesions disrupt kinaesthetic representation of forearm orientation.
To apply the lesion method to assess neuroanatomical substrates for judgments of forearm orientation from proprioceptive cues in humans. ⋯ The findings suggest that the right and left superior and inferior parietal lobules, posterior superior temporal gyri, and premotor areas play a role in defining higher level coordinate systems for specifying orientation of the right and left forearm.