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Neurological Syndrome Case Study

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RARE NEUROLOGICAL SYNDROMES: An Overview

INTRODUCTION: Syndrome is a clinical guide to symptoms and diagnosis, propose a brief useful resources for knowing a subset of neurological clinical features depict a disease or disorder whereas disorder is an abnormal physical or mental condition.[1] Rare neurological syndromes is one of the challenges to public health. Careful analysis of the signs and symptoms can compare with other neurological diseases. The better treatment options and supportive therapies are not well defined in neurological syndromes. WHO and world federation of neurology bring to relate the public issues that associated with neurological syndromes especially in developing countries.[2] Our study emphasizing on the importance of clinical neurological examination, diagnosis and …show more content…

A Case of Right Alien Hand Syndrome Coexisting with Right-Sided Tactile Extinction. Front Hum Neurosci [Internet]. 2016;10(March):1–6. Available from: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00105/abstract 16) Sarva H, Deik A, Severt WL. Pathophysiology and treatment of alien hand syndrome. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) [Internet]. 2014;4(July):241. Available from: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=4261226&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract 17) Bourvis N, Boelle PY, Cesbron JY, Valleron AJ. Risk assessment of transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in endodontic practice in absence of adequate prion inactivation. PLoS One. 2007;2(12):1–7.
18) Gao C, Shi Q, Tian C, Chen C, Han J, Zhou W, et al. The epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory features of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients in China: Surveillance data from 2006 to 2010. PLoS One. 2011;6(8):6–11.
19) J. Pearn and C. Gardner-Thorpe, “Jules Cotard (1840–1889): his life and the unique syndrome which bears his name,” Neurology, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 1400–1403,

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