Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: severe unilateral periorbital headache and ophthalmoplegia resulting from a non-caseating granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus and/or superior orbital fissure.
Category Neurology
Giulio Ceradini
Giulio Ceradini (1844 - 1894) was an Italian physiologist. illustrated the mechanism of closure of the semilunar valves
Angelo Mosso
Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) was an Italian physiologist, archaeologist, politician, mountain climber and teacher.
Charles Bonnet syndrome
Charles Bonnet syndrome: Visual hallucinations in psychologically normal elderly people and most commonly associated in individuals with visual impairment .
Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet (1720 - 1793) was a Swiss naturalist and philosopher. Described Charles Bonnet syndrome in 1760; visual hallucinations of his visually impaired grandfather
Cornelia de Lange
Cornelia Catharina de Lange (1871 - 1950) was a Dutch pediatrician. Described Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) in 1933
Jules Sottas
Jules Sottas (1866–1945) was a French neurologist, historian and astronomer. Dejerine-Sottas Disease (1893)
Sir Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a Scottish anatomist, physiologist, neurologist and surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with Bell's palsy
Capgras syndrome
Capgras syndrome: uncommon syndrome in which a patient has a delusional belief that a person, usually a family member or friend, has been replaced by an imposter.
Alix Joffroy
Alix Joffroy (1844 - 1908) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist. Eponymously affiliated with Joffroy sign in Graves ophthalmopathy
Woltman sign
Woltman sign of myxedema: Slowness of both the contraction and the relaxation of muscles in hypothyroid patients, best seen as the “hung-up” ankle jerk and occurring because of mechanical factors and slowness of contraction time, as in myotonia and pseudomyotonia
Real world outcomes from TBI
Des Gorman talks about outcomes and controversies following traumatic brain injury.