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Amiloride but not memantine reduces neurodegeneration, seizures and myoclonic jerks in rats with cardiac arrest-induced global cerebral hypoxia and reperfusion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 It has been reported that both activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors and acid-sensing ion channels during cerebral ischemic insult contributed to brain injury.
Kwok Keung Tai, Daniel D Truong
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Geomagnetic jerks and seismic activity
Annals of Geophysics, 1996 By means of a Monte Carlo simulation, we explored the extent to which large earthquakes may induce fluctuations on the secular variation of the Earth's magnetic field.
W. Marzocchi +4 more
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Case Reports in Neurology, 2020 Epileptic seizures are common in the elderly Down syndrome population. We encountered a patient with Down syndrome in whom karyotyping showed the rare isodicentric chromosome 21 and who suffered from myoclonic seizures.
Koji Obara +3 more
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Atypical clinical presentation of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Neurology, 2013 SSPE (Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) is a chronic and slowly progressive inflammatory disease of the central nervous system caused by a persistent measles virus usually affecting the childhood and adolescent age group.
Adina Roceanu +2 more
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Myoclonic jerks secondary to piperacillin and nafcillin
Neurology International, 2014 A 66-year-old male receiving intravenous piperacillin and nafcillin for a post-surgical wound infection developed intermittent myoclonic jerks of all four extremities that disappeared after discontinuation of these two medications.
Michael A. Meyer
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Acute Myoclonic Jerk Terminated by A Simple Procedure – A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Myoclonic jerks are brief involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles. It is a medical sign and not a diagnosis of a disease. It occurs in number of secondary conditions like hepatic failure, renal failure, dyselectrolytaemia, etc in ...
Manigandan Gopi, Aashish Arumugam
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Myoclonus and other jerky movement disorders
Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, 2022 Myoclonus and other jerky movements form a large heterogeneous group of disorders. Clinical neurophysiology studies can have an important contribution to support diagnosis but also to gain insight in the pathophysiology of different kind of jerks.
Sterre van der Veen +7 more
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Prolonged spinal myoclonus following spinal anaesthesia with bupivacaine
Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2015 Spinal myoclonus occurring after spinal anaesthesia is very rare and characterised by sudden involuntary jerks of the back and limbs. A 34 year old male without any comorbidities underwent a subarachnoid block with bupivacaine heavy for laminectomy of L4-
S Kiran +3 more
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Myoclonic Jerks and Schizophreniform Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 Background: Schizophreniform syndromes can be divided into primary idiopathic forms as well as different secondary organic subgroups (e.g., paraepileptic, epileptic, immunological, or degenerative).
Dominique Endres +18 more
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Myoclonic Jerks, Exposure to Many Cats, and Neurotoxoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent Male
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2018 Background: Myoclonic jerks are due to sudden, brief, involuntary muscle contractions, positive myoclonus, or brief cessation of ongoing muscular activity, negative myoclonus, and may be difficult to recognize.
Antonio Jose Reyes +4 more
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