... Abstract Background: Yawning is phylogenetically ancient and associated with a stereotyped behavioral pattern. Objective: To describe the pattern of associated movements observed in hemiplegic limbs during yawning and its relationship to gender, laterality of hemiplegia and muscle tone...

... Abstract In 1974, Critchley described misoplegia as the phenomenon in which a hemiplegic patient develops a morbid dislike towards the offending immobile limbs. Patients with misoplegia may employ, but more commonly strike their paretic limbs not recognized as self. The pathophysiological...

... and politicocultural involvement, and ultimately in the neurological diseasethat struck them at the end of their careers. Both suffered a right-hemispheric stroke thatleft them hemiplegic on the left side. We review their life and career to put that event into perspective,and then discuss its aftermath for both...

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...: a randomized controlled trial. Neurorehabil Neural Repai 2011;25:304-313 31. Chen JC, Liang CC, Shaw FZ: Facilitation of sensory and motor recovery by thermal intervention for the hemiplegic upper limb in acute stroke patients: a single-blind randomized clinical trial. Strok 2005;36:2665-2669 32...

... to describe the movement of a paralyzed arm in a hemiplegic during yawning: L’ art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie (‘The Art of Understanding Men by Their Physiognomy’ , 1775-1778) by Gaspard Lavater (1741-1800) was the result of a philosophical movement dating back to Antiquity that consisted...

.... Thermoregulatory Dysfunction and Pain Asymmetric sweating with cold hemiplegic limbs, reflecting changes in the sudomotor and vasomotor regulatory systems, are quite frequent after stroke. In a recent study [ 8 ] acute autonomic changes contralateral to the lesion, i.e. on the side of the deficit, were seen...

... by the side of hemiplegia and confirmed by autopsy. Whereas “ordinary” right-hemiplegics (with left-side lesions) are “apathetic,” “silent,” and “stricken with hebetude,” “emotional” left-hemiplegics show “an abnormal impressionability … respond[ing to questions] in a limping voice, broken up by a kind...

... of the Effectiveness of Neurorehabilitation on Sensation: a randomized controlled trial. Neurorehabil Neural Repai 2011;25:304-313 31. Chen JC, Liang CC, Shaw FZ: Facilitation of sensory and motor recovery by thermal intervention for the hemiplegic upper limb in acute stroke patients: a single-blind randomized...

...), familial hemiplegic migraine, spinocerebellar ataxia, and sporadic hemiplegic migraine. EA2 is on the differential diagnostic list of patients with unexplained episodic vertigo. Other conditions would include vestibular migraine, Meniere's and vestibular paroxysmia among others. Vertigo attacks may last...