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Early Dropped Head Syndrome In A Case With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
We Report a case of "Dropped head syndrome" [DHS] due to Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]. A thirty seven year old gentleman was admitted with progressive limb and bulbar weakness of 10 months duration. He developed drooping of the head six months after the onset of illness. After clinical examination and investigation a diagnosis of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was made based on El Escorial criteria
Somnambulism Due to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - A Case Report
Somnambulism (sleep walking) is a disorder of arousal that falls under the parasomnia group. It is more common in children than in adults. (1). The onset of sleep walking in adult life is most unusual and suggests the presence of secondary causes rather than a primary sleep disorder (1). We report a 30-year-old male who presented with repeated episodes of sleep waling possibly due to nocturnal temporal lobe epilepsy