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. 2016 Jun;53(2):188-190.
doi: 10.5152/npa.2015.11310. Epub 2016 Jun 1.

Stiff Person Syndrome with Pyramidal Signs

Mecbure Nalbantoğlu  1 , Hasan Battal  2 , Meral E Kiziltan  1 , Mehmet Ali Akalin  1 , Güneş Kiziltan  1
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Stiff Person Syndrome with Pyramidal Signs

Mecbure Nalbantoğlu et al. Noro Psikiyatr Ars. 2016 Jun.
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Figures

Figure 1. a, b
Figure 1. a, b
Flexor reflex (a): Our patient’s record. Channels: right lumbar paraspinal, right biceps femoris, right anterior tibial, and left anterior tibial muscles. Obtained with four repetitive stimuli from foot base. Stimulus intensity 7.6 mA (b): Normal sample. Channels: anterior tibial and biceps femoris. Stimulus intensity 32 mA
Figure 2. a, b
Figure 2. a, b
Startle response obtained with vocal stimulus. Channels: left orbicularis oculi, left sternocleidomastoid, left biceps brachii, left lumbar paraspinal, and left anterior tibial. (a) Our patient’s record, (b) Normal sample
Figure 3. a, b
Figure 3. a, b
(a) Somatosensory startle response obtained with 9-mA electrical stimuli to the left median nerve at the wrist. Channels: left orbicularis oculi, left sternocleidomastoid, left biceps brachii, left lumbar paraspinal, and left anterior tibial. (b) Activation of the same muscles with 9-mA electrical stimuli from the supraorbital region. Channel 1: normal blink reflex, Channel 2: trigemino-cervical reflex obtained from the sternocleidomastoid muscle with normal latency, but the response did not exhaust and an ordinarily unseen reflex activity appeared in other muscles
Figure 4. a, b
Figure 4. a, b
(a): Masseter inhibitory reflex, obtained with 20-mA electrical stimuli to the perioral region (b): Normal sound-activated masseter inhibitory reflex, obtained with 105-dB binaural electrical stimuli. Channels: right and left masseter muscles
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