SF Journal of Neurology
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Abstract: Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) is a reversible clinic-radiological entity characterized by seizure, headaches, visual symptoms, impaired consciousness and other focal neurological findings. It is caused by a wide variety of causes ultimately leading to a white matter vasogenic cerebral edema of occipital and parietal lobes of the brain predominantly. We present
Abstract: Moyamoya disease is a rare, idiopathic, progressive occlusive condition involving cerebral vessels which includes mainly, stenosis of distal internal carotid arteries on both sides and anterior and middle cerebral arteries thereby leading to development of collateral vessels to compensate for the occlusion. The disease may develop in children and adults, but the clinical features differ. Moyamoya disease occurs predominantly in Japanese individuals but has been found in all races
Abstract: In the new interdisciplinary research program named neurotheology, researchers are trying to explain religious experiences by employing neuroscience. They believe that neural processes within the brain are the cause of religious experiences. Two competing approaches are presented in this program. The first approach, with an empathetic view on the reality of religious experience,
Abstract: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a neuropsychiatric disorder that is characterized by recurrent and intrusive thoughts or images (obsessions) or intentional repetitive behaviors (compulsions). According to DSM-5 these obsessions and compulsions must be time-consuming and cause distress or impairment to be considered as OCD characteristics. OCD like many psychiatric
Abstract: Dear Editor, This letter is my opinion on a research article, titled “Red price? Red flag! Eye‐tracking reveals how one red price can hurt a retailer”. Authors are Hongjun Ye, Siddharth Bhatt, HaeyoungJeong, Jintao Zhang, Rajneesh Suri. This article has been published in the Journal of psychology and marketing, 22nd of January 2020 [1]. There are two terms that might be utilized interchangeably; one term is Neuromarketing, which refers to the application of psychology and neuroscience in marketing,