Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder presenting with repeated hypersomnia due to involvement of the hypothalamus and hypothalamus-amygdala linkage

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 960-962

  Kume, Kodai ^a   Deguchi, Kazushi ^a   Ikeda, Kazuyo ^a   Takata, Tadayuki ^a   Kokudo, Yohei ^a   Kamada, Masaki ^a   Touge, Tetsuo ^a   Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^b,c   Kanbayashi, Takashi ^d   Masaki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Yonezawa National Hospital   (Japan)

^d AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

amygdala; aquaporin 4; hypersomnia; hypothalamus; Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder; orexin

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OREXIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOOPTIC NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERBAL MEMORY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLICATION; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; PATHOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA; OREXINS;

EID: 84930406013     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458515569100     Document Type: Article

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