Some readers will no doubt have watched the 1990 movie, Awakenings starring Robin Williams and Robert de Niro, about a group of patients who had suffered a form of encephalitis and survived, only to be permanently in a state of reduced awareness and responsiveness. The movie was based on a book by the famous neurologist, […]
Month: July 2015
Scrub typhus: another treatable neurological infection
Infectious diseases of the nervous system are an evolving and extremely interesting area of neurology. There always seems to be a new infection on the horizon and this means that neurologists constantly need to stay up-to-date on how these infections present clinically. Importantly, many are treatable and this means that you have to be on […]