Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, plays an important role in a number of physiological functions, Its deficiency has been associated with macrocytic anemia and number of neuropsychiatric disorders. Further, at the... Read more »
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An idiopathic palsy of the facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) which results in ipsilateral weakness of the facial muscles. Read more »
AMSAN, or acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy, is a subtype of Guillain-Barré syndrome that is characterized by a combination of distal weakness (motor), reduction or complete loss of deep tendon reflexes... Read more »
Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis (BBE) is a rare inflammatory disorder involving the brainstem. Read more »
Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS) is thought to be a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) that affects primarily cranial nerves. Read more »
Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome is a neuro-ophthalmologic diagnosis of exclusion that presents clinically as painful ophthalmoplegia with the ocular motor neuron palsies ipsilateral to the pain. Read more »
The MR images show an abnormal growth hanging down from the hypothalamus. This is a hypothalamic hemartoma, which in some cases can be a type of grey matter heterotopia within the tuber cinereum.... Read more »
Landua Kleffner Syndrome is one of a spectrum of childhood epileptic disorders and presents with acquired aphasia (loss of the ability to speak or understand speech after initially being able to). Read more »
Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) derivatives are cofactors in the synthesis of both amino acids and purines. B12 deficiencies, as a result, cause problems with both DNA and protein synthesis. Read more »