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Changes in the heartbeat-evoked potential are associated with functional seizures.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
September 2023
Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, University College London, London, UK
Background: Patients with functional seizures (FS) can experience dissociation (depersonalisation) before their seizures. Depersonalisation reflects disembodiment, which may be related to changes in interoceptive processing. The heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) is an electroencephalogram (EEG) marker of interoceptive processing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSuspecting unwitnessed hypoglycaemia.
Pract Neurol
April 2021
Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, St George's Hospital Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre, London, Greater London, UK.
Article Synopsis
- Hypoglycaemic coma can show symptoms similar to a stroke, leading to acute neurological dysfunction.
- The condition may appear to be normal blood sugar levels due to the body's compensatory mechanisms, like the Somogyi phenomenon.
- Clinicians should look for specific changes on MR brain scans in patients with a history of recurrent hypoglycaemia, as quick identification and treatment can improve outcomes and reverse radiological issues.
Rat bite fever in senior health medicine.
BMJ Case Rep
March 2020
Respiratory and General Internal Medicine, St. George's Hospital Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre Epilepsy Group, London, UK.
A 71-year-old man was admitted with confusion having been discovered on the floor of his unkempt home. Social services would later confirm that the home was infested by rats. An infection of unclear origin was suspected, and he was immediately started on broad spectrum antibiotics.
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