Premium
Benign nocturnal alternating hemiplegia of childhood: The first clinical report with paroxysmal events home‐video recordings
Author(s) -
Sartori Stefano,
Vecchi Marilena,
Toldo Irene,
Boniver Clementina,
Dalla Bernardina Bernardo,
Maria Laverda Anna
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
movement disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.352
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1531-8257
pISSN - 0885-3185
DOI - 10.1002/mds.22180
Subject(s) - choreoathetosis , pediatrics , medicine , neurological disorder , psychology , audiology , neuroscience , central nervous system disease , psychiatry , dystonia
Benign familial nocturnal alternating hemiplegia of childhood (BNAHC) is a rare disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of hemiplegia, arising from sleep without progression to neurological or intellectual impairment. It is distinct from the malignant, relatively more common, alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), complicated by developmental deterioration, cognitive impairment, and permanent neurological deficits such as choreoathetosis. The authors add a new case of BNAHC to the pertinent literature and report, for the first time, a video with the typical nocturnal hemiplegic attacks in order to improve knowledge about this disorder among child neurologists and pediatricians and increase the possibility of clarifying its pathogenesis and molecular basis. © 2008 Movement Disorder Society