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946-2 | Bilateral Sixth Nerve Palsy | The patient is a 70 year old Italian man with atrial fibrillation on long-term coumadin therapy. In October 1995, he developed generalized headache, horizontal double vision and his left eye deviated inwards (esotropia). A diagnosis of left sixth nerve palsy was made and attributed to microvascular ... | Bilateral Sixth Nerve Palsy; Bilateral Esotropia; CNS Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma; Cavernous Sinus Syndrome; Lymphoma |
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946-3 | Supranuclear Paralysis of Upgaze | The patient is a 58 year old man who was admitted as an emergency with hypersomnolence, gait ataxia and diplopia. On the night before Thanksgiving he went to bed feeling well. He was awoken by a phone call at 2 p.m. on Thanksgiving day having over slept by 7 hours. He got out of bed to answer th... | Supranuclear Paralysis of Vertical Gaze; Convergence Retraction Nystagmus; Vertical Oculocephalic Reflex Normal; Third Nerve Palsy; Pretectal Syndrome Top of the Basilar Syndrome; Thalamic Infarct; Patent Foramen Ovale; Thalamus Infarct; Somnolence |
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946-4 | Benign Essential Blepharospasm | The patient is a 60 year old estate manager with a history of retinal laser therapy, dry eyes and age related bilateral ptosis. He carries a diagnosis of hilar lymphadenopathy due to sarcoid and has had cancer of the kidney. He presented in 1995 with a 6 month history of frequent blinking and sp... | Benign Essential Blepharospasm; Focal Dystonia |
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946-5 | Dressing Apraxia | The patient is a 72 year old right handed woman who presented in November 1995 with the sudden onset of impaired coordination of visual and motor skills following an inner right ear infection. One of her problems was difficulty sitting on a chair as she tended to place her body incorrectly. By lat... | Dressing Apraxia; Apraxia of the Left Hand; Constructional Apraxia; Right Parietal Lobe; Progressive Lobar Atrophy; Degenerative CNS Disease; Apraxia |
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946-6 | Third Nerve Palsy | The patient is a 50 year old man with Type II Diabetes who presented to an outside hospital in September 1996 with ptosis and an inability to open the right eye. Five months prior to admission (PTA), he had flu-like symptoms with mild fever, sinus congestion and diffuse myalgia in the chest, abdo... | Ptosis; Unilateral Third Nerve Palsy; Oculomotor Nerve; Meningovascular Syphilis; Heubner's Arteritis; Unilateral Oculomotor Third Nerve Palsy; Third Nerve Microinfarct |
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946-8 | Pendular Nystagmus; Horizontal Gaze Palsy | The patient is a 29 year old retarded man with a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by congenital absence of conjugate horizontal eye movements, preservation of vertical gaze and convergence and horizontal pendular nystagmus. Ocular motility examination: Conjugate horizontal pendular n... | Horizontal Pendular Nystagmus; Congenital Horizontal Gaze Palsy; Preservation of Convergence; Normal Vertical Gaze; Optokinetic Nystagmus Absent; Horizontal Vestibular Ocular Reflex Absent; Mutation of the ROBO 3 Gene on Chromosome 11q23-q25; Congenital Cranial Disinnervation Syndrome |
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947-1 | Migraine Visual Aura: A Personal Account | I am greatly indebted to the Nobel Laureate, David Hubel for his permission to publish his description of his migraine aura. The recording was made fortuitously at the time that I invited David to the Unit for Neuro-Visual Disorders to record an audio clip describing the experiments in the cat that... | Migraine Visual Aura; Occipital Lobe; Visual Phenomena; David H. Hubel |
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947-2 | Migraine Visual Aura: A Discussion with Nobel Laureate David H. Hubel | I am greatly indebted to the Nobel Laureate, David Hubel for his permission to publish his description of his migraine aura. The recording was made fortuitously at the time that I invited David to the Unit for Neuro-Visual Disorders to record an audio clip describing the experiments in the cat that... | Migraine Visual Aura; Occipital Lobe; Visual Phenomena; David H. Hubel |
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947-3 | The Prize: An Interview with David H. Hubel Nobel Laureate Physiology or Medicine 1981 | David H. Hubel is the John Enders University Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Born in Canada of American parents, he grew up in Montreal, graduated from McGill Medical School, and received training in neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital. ... | David H. Hubel; Intracellular Microelectrode Recordings of Visual Neurons to Visual Stimuli; AVP Association Areas |
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948-1 | Information Processing in the Visual System: David H. Hubel, Nobel Laureate Physiology or Medicine 1981 | David H. Hubel is the John Enders University Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Born in Canada of American parents, he grew up in Montreal, graduated from McGill Medical School, and received training in neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Johns Hopkins Hospital. ... | Architecture of the Visual Cortex; Information Processing in the Visual System; David H. Hubel; AVP Association Areas |