…summoned to this banquet of literature/art and medicine: van Gogh (specifically his letters, replete with references to literature), Dostoevsky (accounts of epilepsy), Chekhov (doctors), Charcot (his interest in the theatre),…
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…multiple sclerosis; epilepsy and neuro-immunology. Of the numerous excellent presentations, one very practical presentation by Ellen Campbell and colleagues in Belfast provided data on the risk of major congenital malformations…
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…she suffered from epilepsy treated with Phenobarbital. The enamel of her teeth was deficient and she had lost four permanent teeth by the age of 24. She was prone to…
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…share their latest research, expertise and insights. A variety of sessions and teaching courses will be held on topics such as epilepsy, stroke, movement disorders, pain, dementia, neuro-rehabilitation, headache and…
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…paralysis, stroke, sleep disturbances, epilepsy, dementia, and the neurology of syphilis [12]. Claims for PD have also been made [13], for example in this quote from Troilus and Cressida (I:ii:172-5),…
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…Rheumatology and Haematology. Parallel sessions on Epilepsy and Multiple Sclerosis, and on Neuroinflammation and Movement disorders ensured that the subspecialties within neurology were covered. These teaching sessions were eye-opening and…
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…value of video access nowadays for looking at clinical signs and examination techniques online. Dr Phil Smith talked about epilepsy and blackouts and differential diagnoses with practical advice on how…
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…in the modern world. Through this thesis, conditions such as schizophrenia, anorexia, hallucinations, heautoscopy, phantom limb phenomena, anosognosia, body image distortions in epilepsy and migraine and hysteria with regard to…
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…the same technique to humans. The ethical issues were resolved by recruiting patients with refractory epilepsy needing neurophysiological studies (surgical insertion of micro electrodes in their hippocampus) to determine which…
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