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According to the Mayo Clinic, Stiff Person Syndrome is "a rare disorder of motor function characterized by involuntary stiffness of axial muscles and superimposed painful muscle spasms, which are ...
Symptoms of stiff person syndrome typically begin in the upper body, according to the Cleveland Clinic. As it progresses, symptoms typically move to the lower body, making it difficult to walk and ...
A person may be diagnosed with stiff person syndrome when there is no better explanation for a patient’s symptoms and diagnostic findings. Related: Doctors Explain the Stiff Person Syndrome.
Pierre Suu/Getty Images Céline Dion is sharing her stiff person syndrome battle with the world. The Grammy winner, 56, announced in a January statement that she would “raise awareness” about ...
Celine Dion Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Céline Dion will tell the story of her battle against stiff person syndrome (SPS) in a new documentary. The five-time Grammy winner, 55 ...
The eyespot apparatus (or stigma) is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it, prompting the organism to either swim towards the light (positive phototaxis ...
The three main signs of hyperekplexia are generalized stiffness, excessive startle response beginning at birth, and nocturnal myoclonus. [5] Affected individuals are fully conscious during episodes of stiffness, which consist of forced closure of the eyes and an extension of the extremities followed by a period of generalised stiffness and uncontrolled falling at times. [6]
Prosopagnosia, [2] also known as face blindness, [3] is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact.