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Month: July 2015

Catatonia: what is it, why does it happen and how do you treat it?

Posted on July 29, 2015 by

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, […]

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Scrub typhus: another treatable neurological infection

Posted on July 3, 2015 by

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 […]

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