Prosopagnosia, also referred to as "face blindness," is a type of visual agnosia characterized by a decreased capacity to recognize familiar faces with a preserved ability to identify individuals based on non-facial visual traits or voice. Prosopagnosia can be categorized as developmental (DP) or acquired (AP) owing to a variety of underlying conditions, including trauma, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, neuroinfections, and, less frequently, malignancies. Facial recognition is a complex process in which different neuronal networks are involved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a leading cause of death and long-term disability worldwide. Thromboinflammation plays an important role in the pathophysiology of stroke. The peripheral blood cell count ratios (PBCCR): neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR), are global inflammatory indicators with prognostic value for the clinical outcome after stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) is a rare but serious condition that is hypothesized to be a result of rapid correction of hyponatremia, with a catastrophic prognosis. The foci of demyelination may occur in either the pontine area or within the white matter of the cerebral hemispheres, which denotes a specific clinical presentation. We present the case of a post-COVID-19 patient who was diagnosed with ODS with typical clinical and radiological characteristics of both forms: central pontine myelinolysis and extrapontine myelinolysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bacterial meningitis (BM) is an inflammation of the meninges, associated with the invasion of bacteria. The etiologic agents vary by age group. BM because of Group B streptococcus (GBS) is common for the neonatal period but considered as rare in adult patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetic Striatopathy (DS) is a rare complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) with poor glycemic control and typical neuroimaging findings. DS predominantly leads to a unilateral reversible injury of the basal ganglia resulting in various movement disorders such as hemichorea and hemibalismus. We present a rare case of DS with left-sided hemichorea as a first presentation for a newly diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus (DM) type II and to make a thorough review of this disorder and to provide a practical approach to its management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Behcet's disease (BD) is a multisystem autoimmune relapsing vasculitis with almost unknown etiology, which involves both large and small vessels. The involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is rare, divided into two main sub-types- parenchymal nad and non-parenchymal. The peripheral nervous system is generally preserved or involved in very rare cases.
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