Superior orbital fissure syndrome (SOFS) is a rare condition characterized by ophthalmoplegia, proptosis, ptosis, and dilation and fixation of the pupil. We present a case series with clinical and radiological findings of patients with idiopathic SOFS. All five patients had a sub...
Tetanus remains a major public health problem in developing countries. The annual number of cases in Morocco is relatively low. The prognosis for this disease is as severe as ever, and all the gloomier as the diagnosis and treatment are late. Despite the improvement in intensive...
Cervical artery dissection accounts for almost 20% of ischemic strokes in young patients. Vertebral artery dissection is considered less common than carotid dissection, and 18% of cases are bilateral. The typical presentation is posterior neck pain, holocranial or frontal headach...
Aim: To identify the difference in motor learning duration between right and left dominant subjects for a novel task. Study Design: Quasi-experimental study design with two groups, pre and post-intervention assessment Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at KMCH C...
Background: Pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders have a large burden on the health care system all over the world particularly in developing countries. Due to the constraints of the appropriate diagnostic tools many of these children report late and identification in appropriat...
The “Type of Article” of this paper is “Letter to the Editor”. This paper discuses about: “Is High Blood Pressure Always an Obstacle in Stroke Thrombolysis?”. No formal abstract is available. Readers are requested to read the full article.
The key to accurate classification of epilepsies is the accurate characterization of seizure types and clinical history. Accurate clinical characterization of seizures is important in selecting candidates who are more likely to benefit from radio-imaging. Few studies have address...
Background: Inherited neuropathy is a group of common neurologic disorders with heterogeneous clinical presentations. The study aimed to evaluate the clinical and electrophysiological profiles of children with inherited neuropathies and categorize them under various inherited neu...
The “Type of Article” of this paper is “Letter to the Editor”. This paper discuses about: “Stroke Thrombolysis in Difficult Circumstance: When Benefit May Not OverruleRisk!”. No formal abstract is available. Readers are
Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the variations in the of sphenoid sinus pneumatization in the Sudanese. Materials and Methods: The study is a cross sectional observational descriptive study included 100 patients (50 males, 50 females) who underwent Magnetic Resonance...
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...