Psychotic attack during the clinical course of megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts: a case report.

Objectives: Van der Knaap disease or megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC), is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease with macrocephaly. We present a case of MLC with a confirmed homozygous MLC1 mutation who presented with a psychotic attack at a very young age.

Case Presentation: An 11-year-old girl was admitted to the emergency room with delusions, hallucinations, and irritability.

Interplay between carotid artery dissection and thrombophilia leading to ischaemic stroke after minor head trauma in an adolescent: a case report.

Stroke in children is more common than is often realised; there are numerous potential causes, including carotid artery injury resulting from minor head or neck trauma, as well as genetic conditions associated with thrombophilia. A 13-year-old boy suffered an arterial ischaemic stroke (AIS) secondary to dissection of the left internal carotid artery (ICA) after he headed the ball during a game of football. He presented with generalised tonic-clonic seizure, loss of consciousness, right-sided hemiplegia and aphasia.

The First Case of 4H Syndrome with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

4H syndrome is a rare progressive hypomyelinating leukodystrophy. Hypomyelination, hypodontia, and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism are the 3 classic features of 4H syndrome. Biallelic pathogenic variants in POLR3A, POLR3B, POLR1C, and POLR3K gene cause 4H leukodystrophy.

Corpus callosum thickness: A predictive factor for the first drug efficiency of self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (selects)?

Objective: To investigate the existence of a possible linkage between the thickness of corpus callosum (CC) regions and the first antiepileptic drug response in patients with Selects.

Materials And Methods: CC thickness of 68 patients with Selects and 42 healthy controls between 4 and 12 years of age were measured using brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Clinical and EEG features of newly diagnosed Selects patients were recorded.

Neurologic Manifestations of COVID 19 in Children: Prospective Study in a Single Center.

Background: The data related to the neurologic manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in children are limited. The frequency of the neurologic manifestations and the risk factors in the development of these symptoms are not clear.

Objectives: We aimed to determine the exact frequency of the neurological symptoms in pediatric patients with confirmed COVID-19 and to identify the risk factors for the development of neurological manifestations.

Infantile spasms: Knowledge, attitude, and practice of pediatricians in Turkey.

Background: Infantile Spasms Syndrome (ISS) encompasses both West syndrome (WS), comprising epileptic spasms, psychomotor stagnation or regression and hypsarrhythmia, and also infants presenting with epileptic spasms who do not fulfill the triad of WS.

Objective: To investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding ISS among Turkish pediatricians and pediatric residents.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among pediatricians and pediatric residents from all regions of Turkey.

The management of elevated intracranial pressure and sinus vein thrombosis associated with mastoiditis: the experience of eighteen patients.

Purpose: Cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT) associated with acute mastoiditis is a rare complication of acute otitis media. Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) frequently occurs secondary to CSVT. The study aims to review the 5 years of experience of four medical centres to treat sigmoid sinus thrombosis and elevated intracranial pressure in children.

Evaluation of micronutrient levels in children with cerebral palsy.

Background: Many studies evaluating the nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy (CP) have focused on energy requirements and protein intake. The present work aimed to assess nutritional status and micronutrient levels of children with (CP).

Methods: This multicenter, cross-sectional and observational study was conducted in 10 different cities in Turkey.

Sleep: How is it affected in patients with DMD and their mothers?

Background: To investigate whether children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have sleep disorders, and the sleep quality and daytime sleepiness of mothers who are primary caregivers.

Methods: Clinical data and gross motor functional status of 24 patients with DMD were measured using the gross motor function classification system (GMFCS). Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children scores were evaluated to determine their sleep features.

Impact of COVID-19 on serum melatonin levels and sleep parameters in children.

Background/aim: This study aimed to analyze the serum melatonin levels and changes in sleep patterns in pediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Materials And Methods: This study was designed as a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Serum melatonin levels and sleep parameters of children with the diagnosis of COVID-19 who had mild and moderate disease (i.

Sydenham Chorea: Putaminal Enlargement.

Background: Our aim in this study was to evaluate the efficacy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies in the detection of brain regions effected by Sydenham chorea and to determine whether they provided data regarding the pathogenesis of Sydenham chorea. To this end, we assessed basal ganglia structures in Sydenham chorea patients and control group by quantitative MRI volumetric analysis.

Methods: Patients with a recent onset of chorea and control subjects matched for age and gender were included in the study.

Risk factors for recurrence after drug withdrawal in childhood epilepsy.

Background: Several studies have been conducted to determine the risk of recurrence after withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in recent years. There is no consensus concerning the circumstances affecting discontinuation of AEDs. This study was designed to determine the recurrence rate of epilepsy after withdrawal of AEDs and the risk factors related with recurrence.

Guillain-Barré syndrome in children: subtypes and outcome.

Objective: This study reviews the clinical features, subtypes, and outcomes of childhood Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).

Methods: Fifty-four children who attended a tertiary care training and research hospital in Turkey were enrolled in the study.

Results: The mean age was 6.

Mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion in children.

Purpose: We aimed to present clinical and radiologic characteristics of mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) in children.

Methods: Eight children (5 boys and 3 girls; median age, 5.9 years; age range, 8 months to 14.

The Frequency and Clinical Features of Hypersensitivity Reactions to Antiepileptic Drugs in Children: A Prospective Study.

Background: Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) can cause hypersensitivity reactions during childhood. Studies report a wide clinical spectrum of reactions with AED use, ranging from a mild rash to severe cutaneous reactions.

Objective: To determine the prevalence and clinical features of AED hypersensitivity reactions during childhood.

Childhood peripheral facial palsy.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the demographic and clinical characteristics, causes, treatment patterns, outcome, and recurrence of childhood peripheral facial palsy.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study of 144 peripheral facial palsy patients, under 18 years old in a tertiary care pediatric hospital. Medical charts were reviewed to analyze the age, gender, side of facial nerve paralysis, family history, cause, grading by the House-Brackmann Facial Nerve Grading Scale (HBS), results of diagnostic tests, therapies, outcomes, and recurrence.

Brain magnetic resonance imaging findings in children with headache.

Introduction: The aim was to describe the findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in children with headache.

Population And Methods: Retrospective review of the medical records of patients who were admitted to our pediatric outpatient neurology clinics with the complaint of headache between January 2013 and December 2014.

Results: A total of 478 patients (273 female, 205 male) were admitted with the complaint of headache.

Temporary Seizure in an Infant Who Had Been Exposed to G-Amino Butyric Acid Receptor Antagonist Thiocolchicoside.

Seizure is the most common presentation of neurological disorder in the pediatric emergency care setting. In evaluating the child after a first seizure, the first consideration should be determining if the seizure was provoked or unprovoked. Investigation listing the causes of the first seizure is considerably long, and adverse drug reactions must be in mind.

A magnetic resonance imaging finding in children with cerebral palsy: Symmetrical central tegmental tract hyperintensity.

Background: Central tegmental tract is an extrapyramidal tract between red nucleus and inferior olivary nucleus which is located in the tegmentum pontis bilaterally and symmetrically. The etiology of the presence of central tegmental tract hyperintensity on MRI is unclear.

Purpose: In this study our aim is to evaluate the frequency of central tegmental tract lesions in patients with cerebral palsy and control group, as well as to determine whether there is an association between central tegmental tract lesions and cerebral palsy types.

Predictors of recurrence in Sydenham's chorea: Clinical observation from a single center.

Objective: Sydenham's chorea is the most common cause of acquired chorea in children and is the major manifestation for acute rheumatic fever. Despite being known as a benign, self-limiting condition, recurrences and persistence of symptoms can be seen. In this study, we aimed to evaluate retrospectively the clinical and laboratory features of patients with Sydenham's chorea and the rate and the course of recurrences, and to assess the risk of recurrences.

Sleep-wake distribution and circadian patterns of epileptic seizures in children.

Background: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurologic disorders. Daily periodicity of epileptic seizures has been known for over a century. The diurnal patterns of epileptic seizures have also been observed in studies.

Cerebellopontine angle arachnoid cyst associated with mirror movements.

Arachnoid cysts are benign developmental collections of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). They constitute approximately 1% of intracranial masses. The cerebellopontine angle (CPA) arachnoid cysts are rare and often asymptomatic.