Background: Over the last few years, there has been a steady increase in the incidence of neurological diseases in Nigeria particularly stroke, epilepsy and dementia. Therefore, it was needful to determine the current burden imposed by such disorders in Nigeria especially in the...
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE) is a progressive demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, associated with chronic infection of brain tissue with measles virus. Dykan criteria for definite diagnosis of SSPE includes a) clinical features of declining cognitio...
Neonatal seizures are the most prominent feature of neurological dysfunction during neonatal period. Seizures in the neonatal population often present differently than in other age groups due to brain immaturity. However, in neonates there may be no clinical movement abnormality...
Background: Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is one of the most complicated disorders in case history and its discovery. It is a childhood-onset regulated neurobehavioral disorder characterized by multiple motor tics plus one or more phonic vocalizations tics. The management of TS requi...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common movement disorder and is only second to Alzheimer’s disease in most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases. Diverse causative factors lead to PD pathology among which oxidative stress and accumulation of α-Synuclein aggregates are conside...
Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a pathology that affects the cerebral venous sinuses causing an ischemic and/or hemorrhagic brain, but, contrary to the arterial cerebral vascular accident, has a clinical presentation with varied signs and symptoms that are difficult to diagno...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an insult to the brain from an external mechanical force. It may cause permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and/or psychological functions. It may also be associated with an altered or diminished state of consciousness. It acco...
In December 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus started in China, and after a while, it spread worldwide. These diseases can appear with respiratory and gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatrics, but neurological symptoms like seizures are uncommon. Furthermore, there is no specific...
Pachymeningitis is a rare disease defined as diffuse or localized inflammatory and fibrosing thickening of the dura mater. Its occurrence in context of Ulcerative colitis has been exceptionally described. We report a case of a woman with ulcerative colitis who developed pachymeni...
Nummular Headache (NH) is a rare headache disorder characterized by sharply contoured pain fixed in size and shape within a round or elliptical region of the head. We present Mr EAO, a 25 year old young man who presented with a history of recurrent well-circumscribed headache of...