Since its first clinical description (on his son) by William James West (1793–1848) in 1841,
and the definition of the classical triad of (1) infantile spasms;(2) hypsarrhythmia, and (3) …

Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies are present in around 85% of patients with
myasthenia gravis (MG) as measured by the conventional radioimmunoprecipitation assay …

Spinal neurofibromatosis (SNF) is a related form of neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), characterized
by bilateral neurofibromas (histologically proven) of all spinal roots (and, eventually, of all …

Objectives: To characterize MS patients with the earliest onset of disease. Background: MS—
primarily a disease of young adulthood—begins in childhood in 3 to 5% of cases. However …

Ohtahara syndrome or Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy (EIEE) with Suppression-
Burst, is the most severe and the earliest developing age-related epileptic encephalopathy …

Septo-optic dysplasia is defined by a variable combination of dysgenesis of midline brain
structures including optic nerve hypoplasia and hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction often …

The earliest examples of neurofibromatosis (in this case type 1, NF1) can be traced in the
Ebers Papyrus (Ancient Egypt, 1.500 BC), in a Hellenistic statuette (Smyrna, 323 BC), in the …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of neurologic manifestations in children with gluten
sensitivity (GS) and the frequency of GS in children with neurologic disease. STUDY …

The clinical syndrome idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also termed pseudotumor
cerebri, consists of symptoms of headache, nausea, vomiting and visual field defects in …

Abstract The Dutch ophthalmologist, Jan van der Hoeve, first introduced the terms
phakoma/phakomata (from the old Greek word “ϕαχοσ”= lentil, spot, lens-shaped) to define …