Arch Neurol Chicago
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Arch Neurol Chicago · Mar 1993
Comparative StudyInformation processing efficiency in chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
To compare the cognitive performance of subjects with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), multiple sclerosis (MS), and healthy controls. All subjects were matched for age, education, and verbal intelligence, as previous neuropsychological studies of CFS had not used appropriate control groups. ⋯ These results indicate that subjects with CSF and subjects with MS show significant impairment on a test of complex concentration when compared with appropriate controls. The data suggest that subjects with CFS and subjects with MS have difficulty on tasks that require the simultaneous processing of complex cognitive information. Selective impairment in information processing efficiency may lie at the
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Rasmussen's chronic encephalitis, a cause of intractable epilepsy in childhood, is described in three adults. ⋯ Rasmussen's encephalitis is a cause of intractable epilepsy with progressive neurological deficit in adults as well as children. Cytomegalovirus may be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease.