prosopagnosia/headache

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

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

Topographic disorientation is very rare, and usually occurs as a result of a right occipitotemporal lesion. The substrates accounting for these symptoms are thought to be the right parahippocampal and lingual gyri. I report two cases of topographic disorientation. Patient 1, a 58-year-old male taxi

OBJECTIVE Prosopagnosia is a rare dysfunction seen during the aura phase of migraine. We aimed to evaluate the face recognition, which has not previously been investigated in migraineurs during the interictal period, and its relationships with clinical features. METHODS Seventy-four migraineurs,

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

A 49 year old woman reported an attack of transient neurological dysfunction associated with unilateral headache. A prominent feature of the aura was a period of complete achromatopsia, so that the visual scene was experienced in monochrome. The episode developed to include features of prosopagnosia

A 70-year-old man presented with dizziness, headache and hearing loss. He was admitted to our hospital because of increasing unsteadiness of gait. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed meningeal thickening with enhancement. The lumbar puncture revealed high opening pressure. The