Part ii – Neurological Disorders

The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and causes of LOC during diving in former North Sea divers, and the impact on health-related quality of life.. Materials

These include cerebral malaria, toxoplasmosis, and human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), neurocysticercosis, schistosomiasis and hydatid disease.. The student should aim to be

Spinal TB can result in paraplegia in two main ways, either by infection of the spine (Pott’s disease) accounting for the majority of cases of paraplegia or less commonly by

This is an uncommon form of hereditary spastic paraparesis that usually follows an inheritance pattern of autosomal dominance and less frequently recessive and X-linked.

Facial nerve paralysis may either be central (upper motor neurone) in origin as occurs in stroke or peripheral (lower motor neurone) in origin as occurs in Bell’s palsy.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by four key clinical features: tremor, rigidity, poverty of movement also known as bradykinesia

The student should aim to be able to define incidence, prevalence and mortality rates and to understand disease burden and its measurement and prevention with particular regard

The differential diagnosis for ABM in adults in Africa includes the other main causes of meningitis (cryptococcus, TBM and viral), opportunistic infections in HIV, cerebral malaria,