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The association of visual agnosia and prosopagnosia with cerebral metastasis is very rare. The presence of symmetric and bilateral cerebral metastases of melanoma is also uncommon.We report the case of a 34 year-old man who was admitted to hospital with seizures and a three-month history of
A case of isolated, pure and paroxystic auto-prosopagnosia in a young man aged 19 years and 10 months, followed until age 21 years and 6 months, is described. He also exhibited petit-mal seizures since the age of 18 years, these two pathological manifestations being chronologically independent.
This case report concerns a patient whose episodes of prosopagnosia appeared to be epileptic manifestations arising from the left occipital lobe. The underlying pathology, as revealed by radiologic and surgical findings, was an atrophic-hypoplastic lesion of the left hemisphere, more prominent in
Whipple disease is a rare, chronic multisystem infectious disease. The central nervous system (CNS) is secondarily involved in 43% of patients; 5% of patients have isolated or primary CNS involvement. The most frequent CNS symptoms are cognitive changes. Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognize
A 23-year-old right-handed woman developed isolated transient prosopagnosia following surgical resection of a right posterior temporal seizure focus. At 18 years of age she had developed secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Preoperative neuropsychological evaluation was normal, and
A 67-year-old, right-handed woman became unable to recognize familiar faces following a period of nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Neuropsychological assessment revealed a relatively selective impairment of familiar face recognition in the absence of low-level visual deficits or widespread
A 21-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to our hospital with fever, headache, and seizures. On admission, she showed anterograde and retrograde amnesia. These features, together with mild pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid, led to the diagnosis of encephalitis. Brain MRI was normal. EEG
To report 10 patients with limbic encephalitis (LE) and adenylate kinase 5 autoantibodies (AK5-Abs).
We conducted a retrospective study in a cohort of 50 patients with LE with uncharacterized autoantibodies and identified a specific target using immunohistochemistry, Western blotting,