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Eyebrow Spasm (Guest Lecture) | This case is published courtesy of Daniel J. Costello, M.D., Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. The patient is a 32-year-old right-handed man with an established diagnosis of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex characterized by: - medically intractable epilepsy - developmental... | Text |
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Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | This 58 year old woman was referred to Dr. Robert Brown in March 1995 for evaluation of slurred speech. She remained under his care until her death. On examination she had signs of a pseudobulbar palsy: Dysarthria and dysphagia Diminished palatal movement... | Text |
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Frontotemporal Dementia | The patient is a 68 year old right handed retired air conditioner repair man who presented with impaired balance and slow walking. For about one year he had noted difficulty lifting his feet high enough when climbing the stairs. From that time on, his movements slowed and worsened so that he had ... | Text |
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Hemifacial Spasm | The patient is a 72 year old man with myopia, childhood exotropia, progressive age related ptosis and right hemifacial spasm. Hemifacial spasm (HS) most often begins insidiously in the orbicularis oculi muscle in the early stages, as in this man. He presented with a 2 year history of involuntary t... | Text |
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Horizontal Gaze Palsy | This 56 year old woman with known adenocarcinoma of the breast presented with the recent onset of horizontal diplopia and deviation of her left eye inwards. Her oncologist referred her for a neuro-ophthalmic evaluation. This 56 year old woman with known adenocarcinoma of the breast presented with... | Text |
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Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia in Childhood (Guest Lecture) | | Text |
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Lateropulsion | This 60 year old patient has Wallenberg's syndrome due to infarction of the left dorsolateral medulla. Wallenberg's syndrome is the best recognized syndrome involving the vestibular nuclei and adjacent structures. Unilateral infarcts affecting the vestibular nuclei may produce an oculomotor imbalanc... | Text |
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Lessons from the Bench and Bedside | | Text |
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Lid Lag | The classical eye signs of thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) of Graves' Disease is illustrated by case ID925-4. This 50 year old woman with TAO is included in the collection because she illustrates very well lid lag (persistent elevation of the upper eyelid in downgaze) - von Graefe sign E... | Text |
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Midbrain Hemorrhage | The patient is a 49 year old woman who was in good health until January 17, 1991. When, at work one morning, she had an acute attack of light headedness and double vision and collapsed on the floor without loss of consciousness. She developed a severe retro-orbital headache. She was taken to t... | Text |
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Migraine Visual Aura | The patient is a 9 year old right handed boy who developed headaches in 1993 at the age of 8. At that time he told his mother that he had bad headaches starting at the back of the head, usually bioccipital, spreading over the top of the head to his forehead. The headaches were short in duration la... | Text |
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Miller Fisher Syndrome (Guest Lecture) | | Text |
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Mitochondrial Myopathy (Guest Lecture) | | Text |
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Movement Disorders: A Brief Overview | | Text |
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Multiple Sclerosis | | Text |
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Multiple Sclerosis | The patient is a 56 year old woman who presented in 1982, at the age of 48, with a one week history of painless loss of vision in the left eye. Past History: Negative for a previous attack of optic neuritis or transient neurological symptoms. Family History: Negative for CNS disease Neuro-ophth... | Text |
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Multiple Sclerosis Lateropulsion | This 44 year old woman has a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. | Text |
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Myasthenia Gravis (Guest Lecture) | The patient is a 46 year old woman who presented in July 1977 with horizontal double vision lasting two weeks. Three weeks later the left upper eyelid started to droop and by the end of the day the eye was closed. She had no ptosis of the right eye and no generalized fatigue. She consulted an in... | Text |
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Myasthenia Thymoma | The patient is a 46 year old woman who presented in July 1977 with horizontal double vision lasting two weeks. Three weeks later the left upper eyelid started to droop and by the end of the day the eye was closed. She had no ptosis of the right eye and no generalized fatigue. She consulted an in... | Text |
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Neuroblastoma | The patient is Case 27-1995 Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital (New Eng. J Medicine 1995, 333:579-586). The discusser was Dr. Elizabeth Engle, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School. The baby girl was born after a 30 week gestation, with a birth weight of 1.25 k... | Text |
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Ocular Motor Apraxia (Guest Lecture) | | Text |
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Ocular Myasthenia Gravis (Guest Lecture) | | Text |
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Oculomasticatory Myorhythmia (Guest Lecture) | | Text |
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One and a Half Syndrome | | Text |
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Overview of TDP 43 (Guest Lecture) | | Text |