Acute encephalopathy is classified into multiple syndromes, such as acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion (AESD), clinically mild encephalitis/encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion (MERS) and acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE), characterized radiologically by lesions in the cerebral subcortical white matter, splenium of the corpus callosum and bilateral thalami, respectively. We described a previously healthy 8-year-old boy who had febrile and biphasic seizures, and encephalopathy. MRI showed abnormal signal intensity in the corpus callosum on day 2 and cerebral subcortical white matter and bilateral thalamic lesions on day 8. This is the first case of acute encephalopathy in which callosal, subcortical and thalamic lesions co-existed. The clinical course of this case was typical for AESD, atypical for MERS, and different from that of ANE.
Brain Diseases

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Brain Diseases*

Mental illnesses were understood for centuries as affliction of spirit or mind. There were many efforts to reveal the nature of mind. In the past century, however, physicians recognized that psychiatric disorders are primarily diseases of the brain and that many mental illnesses are caused by abnormalities in the brain. For the evolution and development of psychiatry in the New Millenium, understanding the relationship between the brain and mind is inevitable. To understand the nature of mind, we must understand the nature of brain. The more we know the brain, the better understood are the truth of mind and it's disorders.
Brain Diseases* ; Brain*

The results of Danver test and Raven test on 238 > 6 years old of age children with cerebral palsy in HaTay province were assessed. With Ravent test, only 2% among them had not mental retardation, but 98% had mental retardation in various levels. Among the subjects of floppy form of cerebral palsy there is not any case of normal mental level, but a light level of retardation. With Denver test, 26% of cerebral palsy children had got normal development in comparing with the other. But there are different levels of retardation in various domains, 97% of cerebral palsy children got retardation in mobility domain, 85% in individual and social domain, 61% in adaptative mobility and 53.7% in laguage domain
Cerebral Palsy ; Brain ; Brain Diseases

In studying 155.633 subjects living in Ha Tay, among them 238 suffered from cerebral palsy, 54% of cases are male, 46% female. Gender ratio male/female: 1.16, varying with age groups. The highest 1.9 in under 10 years of age group. The lowest 0.2 of > 50 years of age group. Cerebral palsy patients mean age are 18.2 versus 28.3 of normal population in this survey. Average age and maximal age of cerebral palsy patients in Ha Tay are lower than those of the patients in developed countries
Cerebral Palsy ; Brain ; Brain Diseases

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Brain ; Trigeminal Nerve Diseases

396 patients with acute brain syndrome were admitted in Ninh Binh hospital during 1993-1999. 39 cases died (9.9%). The morbidity/mortality was the highest in 1996 (116/15). The patients were mainly children under 14 years old, and were admitted commonly in May and June. Within 125 samples of serum were tested, the positive rate with virus of Japanese encephalitis was 62.5%.
Epidemiology ; Brain Diseases ; syndrome

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Brain Diseases* ; Diarrhea* ; Shock*

Acute necrotising encephalopathy of childhood (ANEC) is an uncommon disease with characteristic clinical and imaging findings. We present two cases of ANEC secondary to Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and mycoplasma infections. An eight-month-old boy presented with features of gastroenteritis but soon developed multiple episodes of seizures. Blood and CSF cultures were negative but nasopharyngeal aspirate immunofluorescence was positive for RSV. A nine-year-old girl presented with abnormal behaviour following two days of prodromal symptoms. Her serological markers implicated mycoplasma (IgM titre 1: 640). CT brain of both patients showed bilateral symmetrical thalamic hypodensities, while MRI revealed more extensive white matter involvements.
Brain Diseases ; Mycoplasma Infections

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Brain Diseases ; Metronidazole