Dr. D. Curtis Wegener (Neurology): A 68-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of worsening confusion and abnormal movements of the face, arms, and legs. The patient had been in her ...

What Are the Causes of Abnormal Head Posture? Abnormal head posture commonly occurs due to neck muscle problems, but the condition has eye-related or ocular causes too. Certain eye conditions can ...

To determine the value of recordings of somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) and neuron-specific enolase (NSE) tests in predicting the outcome in patients within the first 3 days of postanoxic coma ...

Coma scales have been developed for evaluating depth of consciousness and helping in prediction of outcome. This last issue is best assessed by several other clinical and neurophysiologic tests. For ...