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  1. Epilepsy is a chronic debilitating disease especially in pediatric population. Most of reported studies for corpus callosotomy as a palliative surgery in drug-resistant cases are on limited number of cases and...

    Authors: Ahmed Darwish, Omar El Farouk Ahmed, Khaled Saeed Ebrahim, Mennatallah O. Shata, Emad H. Abouelmaaty and Salah M. Hamada
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:30
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  2. Carotid cavernous fistula (CCF) is an abnormal arteriovenous shunt between the carotid artery or its branches, with the cavernous sinus. It is still common in developing countries, and is mostly due to traumat...

    Authors: Ashari Bahar, Jambri Pranata, Anthony Gunawan and Gita Vita Soraya
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:29
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  3. A 39-year-old male without any preceding medical ailment presented with 12 day history of fever followed by behavioral changes with left sided weakness. He was found to have Herpes Simplex Virus-1 encephalitis...

    Authors: Mridula Singh, Dinesh Khandelwal, Vaibhav Mathur and Chandani Shah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:28
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  4. Stroke is the most common acquired neurological disease in the adult population worldwide with an incidence of 16 million new cases every year responsible for about 6.1 million deaths and 130.6 million disabil...

    Authors: Mahmoud Ebrahim Mostafa Elhassanien, Azza Abbas Ghali, Asmaa Khaled Shaheen, Dina Abdallah Ali, Hamdy Khaled Sabra, Sara H. Motawea, Ali R. Ahmed, Michael Maher Mourad Fahem, Shimaa Abo Elfotoh Habash, Rola Essam Elbehairy, Ahmed Galal Abuelsoud, Gehan Ibrahim Mohamed Badawy and Wafik Said Bahnasy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:27
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  5. Attention, as it is now defined as a process matching data from the environment to the needs of the organism, is one of the main aspects of human cognitive processes. There are several aspects to attention inc...

    Authors: Ehsan Nasiri, Mohammad Khalilzad, Zahra Hakimzadeh, Ashkan Isari, Sajjad Faryabi-Yousefabad, Saeed Sadigh-Eteghad and Amirreza Naseri
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:26
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  6. Ever since AE was acknowledged as a potentially treatable cause of encephalitis, it has been increasingly recognised worldwide. Data suggests that these disorders are under-recognized, which calls for an incre...

    Authors: Rithvik Ramesh, Philo Hazeena, Sundar Shanmugam, Shankar Venkatasubramanian, Santhosh Perumal, Vijaya Shankar and Pedapati Radhakrishna
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:25
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  7. Due to its disturbance in schizophrenic patients, mismatch negativity (MMN) generation is believed to be a potential biomarker for recognizing primary impairments in auditory sensory processing during the cour...

    Authors: Abeer Mamdouh Ali Mahmoud, Mai Abd-Elraoof Eissa, Enaas Ahmad Kolkaila, Reham Abdel Rahman Amer and Mona Ahmed Kotait
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:24
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  8. Schizencephaly is a rare congenital cerebral malformation characterized by clefts in the cerebral cortex. The traction effect and splitting of leptomeninges caused by schizencephaly potentially formed an arach...

    Authors: Patricia Hapsari, Celia, Chand Nagpal, Andre, Ronny and Robert Shen
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:23
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  9. Stroke is a neurological disorder resulting from a sudden decline in blood flow to a localized area of the brain. It is the second most common cause of death and the third most common cause of disability world...

    Authors: Arjuman Mohamed Aziz, Alice Edwar Rizian, Fayza Mohamed Tawfik and Jaidaa Farouk Mekky
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:22
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  10. Stroke is among the most prevalent causes of disability. An easy reliable tool to predict stroke outcomes will help manage neurological and non-neurological events and rehabilitation. The modified SOAR (mSOAR)...

    Authors: Hend Abdelghany, Mohamed Elsayed, Amgad Elmeligy and Ghada Hatem
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:21
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  11. Millions of Muslims around the world fast during the holy month of Ramadan as a requirement of their religion Islam. Studies have reported varying effects of Ramadan fasting on mental health and various hormon...

    Authors: Mustafa Akan, Suheyla Unal, Lale Gonenir Erbay and Mehmet Cagatay Taskapan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:20
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  12. Elevated levels of S-100B in serum are increasingly considered a potential biochemical marker of nervous system damage. To our knowledge, limited number of research studies have tested the serum S-100B protein...

    Authors: Mohamed Khamis, Nahed Salah El Din, Maha Ali Nada and Hossam El Din Mahmoud Afifi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:19
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  13. Vitamin D3 is a secosteroid, broad-spectrum immunomodulatory, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory hormone produced either by the internal subcutaneous pathway in the presence of ultraviolet B (UVB) rays or by t...

    Authors: Amit Kumar Tripathi and Sunil Kumar Mishra
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:18
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  14. Hypokalemic paralysis is characterized by episodic attacks of flaccid muscle weakness of variable duration and severity associated with hypokalemia. Overall, there is a scarcity of data regarding hypokalemic p...

    Authors: Hilal Ahmad Ganie, Waseem Raja Dar, Annada Prasad Bhattacharya and Arjimand Yaqoob
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:17
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  15. Bone wax is a hemostatic agent widely used in surgery. Since it is neither absorbed nor metabolized, its use remains risky and a potential cause of complications. Even though its MRI radiological characteristi...

    Authors: Sonia Nagi, Arwa Rekik, Cyrine Drissi and Ihsen Zammel
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:16
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  16. During any critical health care situation as COVID-19 pandemic, it is expected that the medical staff will be under a high level of stress. However, nurses specifically are under both physical and psychologica...

    Authors: Eman Ahmed Ali, Mohammad Gamal Sehlo, Ramadan Abdelbr Hussein, Eman Tarek Ali and Ahmed Mohamed Abdalla
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:15
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  17. The second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are a group of antipsychotic drugs, used to treat psychiatric conditions. SGAs have been shown to precipitate rapid weight gain and dyslipidemia, as well as to promo...

    Authors: Samy Makary, Khaled Abd El Moez, Mona Elsayed and Haydy Hassan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:14
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  18. Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is described as a chronic progressive decline in cortical cognitive function due to the occurrence of multiple infarcts in the cerebral vascularization throughout the gray and whit...

    Authors: Bryan Gervais de Liyis, Jane Carissa Sutedja, Putu Mas Isyundra Kesuma, Sulaiman Liyis and I. Putu Eka Widyadharma
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:13
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  19. Neurovascular compression syndromes (NVCs) are cranial nerve syndromes caused by direct contact or compression of vascular structures on the cranial nerves at the root exit/entry zone. Cases of combined NVCs a...

    Authors: Prakit Anukoolwittaya, Akarin Hiransuthikul, Sekh Thanprasertsuk and Kammant Phanthumchinda
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:12
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  20. Intravenous thrombolysis is the current therapy of choice in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). While highly effective, the rate at which the procedure is employed is low. Studies evaluating the causes...

    Authors: Rocksy Fransisca V. Situmeang, Aristo Pangestu, Reza Stevano, Yesenia Tannu, Jessica Herlambang and Cynthia Putri
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:11
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  21. We report a case who developed long-term neuropsychiatric sequelae similar to frontotemporal dementia after suffering a "high altitude sickness" while climbing a high mountain without taking precautions agains...

    Authors: Cemile Hazan Tunalı, Süheyla Ünal and Suat Kamışlı
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:10
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  23. Gait disorders which caused by stroke are one of the most common causes of functional disabilities in hemiparetic stroke patients that leads to significant impact on quality of life and financial cost. In this...

    Authors: Gehan M. Ahmed, Ebtesam M. Fahmy, Mohamed F. Ibrahim, Ayman A. Nassief, Haidy Elshebawy, Marwa M. Mahfouz and Mahmoud Y. Elzanaty
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:8
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  24. Caregivers play an essential role in caring of patients with psychiatric disorders. It is important to focus on family burden and coping styles of chronic psychiatric disorders’ caregivers. In this survey, the...

    Authors: Tahereh Abbaslou, Aida Farsham, Reza Bidaki and Bonnie Bozorg
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:7
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  25. Wolfram syndrome is due to a mutation of the WFS1 gene that codes for the transmembrane protein wolframin. This protein is located in the endoplasmic reticulum and is expressed at higher concentrations in the bet...

    Authors: Ayca Kocaaga, Sevgi Yimenicioglu and Murat Bayav
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:6
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  26. Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (RCVS) is a neurovascular condition characterized by a severe sudden-onset headache that may be associated with focal neurological deficits. On imaging, the sugges...

    Authors: Michelle Zonkowski Ribas, Gabriela Ferreira Paticcié, Sara Diógenes Peixoto de Medeiros, Arthur de Oliveira Veras, Felipe Micelli Noleto and Júlio César Claudino dos Santos
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:5
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  27. Different studies investigating generalized genetic epilepsy (GGE) have shown that achieving 5 years of remission, early seizure remission, and needing antiseizure medication (ASM) monotherapy may predict favo...

    Authors: Hassan Hosny, Nervana Elfayoumy, Mahmoud Adly and Hend Abdelghany
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:4
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  28. Available data collected from patients of different types of acute cerebrovascular strokes can detect risk factors, clinical data (including semiology of seizures), EEG findings and functional outcome of these...

    Authors: Aya Taha Mohamed, Mahmoud Hemeda El Rakawy, Yousry Abo Elnaga Abdelhamid, Ahmed Mohammed Hazzou and Mona Mokhtar Wahid el din
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:3
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  29. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders. Children with ADHD may experience significant functional problems, such as academic concerns at school, poo...

    Authors: Zahra Sepehrmanesh, Alireza Asayeshi, Reza Daneshvar kakhki, Fatemeh Assarian, Habibolla Rahimi and Saeideh Ramezani moghadam Arani
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:2
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  30. Post-traumatic epilepsy is defined as the onset of at least one seizure beyond the first week following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). High prevalence of TBI in our setting may contribute to the burden of epi...

    Authors: Mathieu Motah, Daniel Gams Massi, Franklin Assonfack Sinju, Annick Mélanie Magnerou, Eric Guemekane Bila Lamou, Cyrille Nkouonlack, Jacques Doumbe, Ignatius Esene, Verla Vincent Siysi, Victor-Claude Eyenga and Yacouba Njankouo Mapoure
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2023 59:1
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  31. Coronavirus disease 2019 (CoVID-19), primarily thought of as a respiratory system disease is actually a multi-system disease with immunological implications. CNS involvement in COVID has been explained in rece...

    Authors: Arka Prava Chakraborty, Alak Pandit, Ajitava Dutta, Shambaditya Das, Goutam Ganguly and Souvik Dubey
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:167
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  32. Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by repetitive spinal cord damage that has resulted in significant clinical morbidity. The clinical evaluation of signs and symptoms, ...

    Authors: Zahraa Y. Jawad, Farqad B. Hamdan and Ihssan S. Nema
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:166
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  33. Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), or neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD), is an autoimmune CNS condition which often has a complex clinical course. Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) is a...

    Authors: Joe Joseph, Parissa Feizi, Shreya R. Pasham, Kanika Sharma, Samiksha Srivastava, Mahmoud Elkhooly, Lalit Nirwan, Shruti Jaiswal and Shitiz Sriwastava
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:165
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  34. Migraine is a chronic neurological disorder, characterized by recurrent headache attacks featuring specific clinical characteristics. Two-thirds of the migraineurs are women. It takes the second place among th...

    Authors: Tetiana Marusich, Yuliia Solodovnikova, Iryna Hnatyuk and Anatoliy Son
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:164
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  35. Functional outcomes of patient with acute ischemic stroke are influenced by the status of the cerebral collaterals. The study aims at evaluating the influence of cerebral collaterals on clinical and radiologic...

    Authors: Esam Saad Darwish, Mostafa H. Othman, Ahmed Hamdy Youssef, Ahmed Mamdouh Tawfik and Amal M. Tohamy
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:163
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  36. Posterior femoral cutaneous nerve (posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh) is a sensory nerve arises from the sacral plexus. Its terminal part supplies the skin of the posterior surface of the thigh and poplit...

    Authors: Emmanuel Kamal Aziz Saba
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:162
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  37. The aim of this letter to the editor is to discuss the etiology and pathophysiology of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) in two patients, of whom one experienced a mildly symptomatic SAR...

    Authors: Josef Finsterer
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:161
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  38. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has continued relentlessly for over one and half years now, causing a threat to life, fear of falling sick, helplessness, anxiety, depression and, pessimism about t...

    Authors: Sadia Sultan, MD. Abu Bashar, Aisha Tabassum, Mohammad Shahid Iqbal, Ibtesam Nomani, Nouf M. Almasoudi, Mawaddah Tayeb, Ghadi W. Munshi and Rahaf K. Matyuri
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:160
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  39. We needs to study Primary Large cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of the cranial vault, which is rare, and its association with COVID19 has not been reported, which may have an immunosuppressive effect to aggravate ...

    Authors: Vikas Chandra Jha and Mohammad Shahnawaz Alam
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:159
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  40. Facial-onset sensory and motor neuronopathy (FOSMN) is a rare disease whose cardinal features are initial asymmetrical facial sensory deficits slowly evolving and followed by bulbar symptoms and spreading of s...

    Authors: Betül Özenç, Zeki Odabaşı and Ersin Tan
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:158
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  41. Isolated common peroneal neuropathy (CPN) is the most common lower extremity mononeuropathy and the third most common mononeuropathy overall in adults. It often associated with multiple aetiologies, such as tr...

    Authors: Janudin Baharin, Abdul Hanif Khan Yusof Khan, Anna Misyail Abdul Rashid, Wei Chao Loh, Azliza Ibrahim, Liyana Najwa Inche Mat, Wan Aliaa Wan Sulaiman, Fan Kee Hoo and Hamidon Basri
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:157
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  42. Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is associated with acute events such as lacunar and hemorrhagic strokes, or chronic events such as cognitive deficit in the form of subcortical dementia, mood deficit in the...

    Authors: Mohamed M. Tawfik, Alaa Ebrahim, Salma Hamed and Mahmoud Haroun
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:156
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  43. Chronic liver disease is primarily caused by hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV produces extrahepatic psychiatric problems. So, patients with CHC who received sofosbuvir-based direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs) w...

    Authors: Zainab Gaber Mahran, Hossam Khalifa, Nahed A. Makhlouf, Dina K. Mostafa, Hani Sayed Aboalam, Ehab F. Moustafa and Gellan K. Ahmed
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:155
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  45. The COVID-19 vaccine-related Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) has been described for both messenger-RNA vaccine and adenovirus-vectored types in a few cases with great public concern and the necessity to inform p...

    Authors: Ali Shalash, Nourhan Belal, Amr S. Zaki, Shady S. Georgy, Mohamed Fahmy Doheim, Ahmed Hazzou and Azza Abdelnasser
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:153
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  46. Sudden onset of unilateral weakness of the upper and lower muscles of one side of the face is defined as peripheral facial nerve palsy. Peripheral facial nerve palsy is often idiopathic and sometimes it could ...

    Authors: Serap Bilge, Gülen Gül Mert, M. Özlem Hergüner, Faruk İncecik, Özgür Sürmelioğlu, Sevcan Bilen and Levent Yılmaz
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:152
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  47. Idiopathic polyneuropathy is an asymmetrical, length-dependent neuropathy in which neurophysiology demonstrates axonal damage involving large fibers, along with insidious onset and slow progression over 6 mont...

    Authors: Nabiel Abd Elhakeem Metwally, Mahmoud Mohamad Hasan, Abd Elaziz Shokry Abd Elaziz, Ali Farrag Elhadad, Kamal Shabaan Ibraheem, Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed Ali and Hesham Atif Abd Elsalam
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:151
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  48. Various studies have shown that about 40–50% of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) are undiagnosed at the time of referral and are often treated as depression. The present meta-analysis was conducted to deter...

    Authors: Fakher Rahim, Kianmehr Rouhani, Ali Delirrooyfard and Mehdi Sayyah
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:150
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  49. Depression is common in women, childhood sexual abuse and its related stigma in our culture are expected to increase the severity of depression, and it may be a strong risk factor for the presence of suicidal ...

    Authors: Mohammad Gamal Sehlo, Usama Mahmoud Youssef, Hayam Mohamed Elgohary, Ghada Mohamed Salah El-deen and Eman Ahmed Ali
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:149
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  50. Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common degenerative movement disorder. It is featured by motor manifestations and up till now the clinical diagnosis is based on them. Since the progress in the symptomatic...

    Authors: Said Salah Dahbour, Mohammad J. Al Murr, Liyan H. Oweis, Nada T. Al Antary, Maram Mohsen and Safa Al Fegi
    Citation: The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2022 58:148
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