This study reviews our experience in 83 cases of brain abscesses in children diagnosed at
seven teaching hospitals during the 10-year period from June 1978 to July 1987. The …

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) has been suggested to be required for neuronal development
and synaptic plasticity. However, in view of the fact that DHA facilitates NMDA responses …

Intracranial arachnoid cysts are benign development anomalies that may be clinically
asymptomatic. The authors describe 30 children with intracranial arachnoid cysts in terms of …

Severe muscle weakness in Fanconi’s syndrome is rarely the result of mitochondrial cytopathy.
We describe a rare case of a 9-year-old male with early onset of Fanconi’s syndrome. He …

Seventy-two children with Guillain-Barrésyndrome (GBS), diagnosed at 11 major teaching
hospitals in Taiwan during the period 1986–1990, were studied retrospectively. There were …

The effects of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on low-frequency stimulation (LFS)-induced
long-term depression (LTD) were investigated in the CA 1 subfield of rat hippocampal slices. …

The authors present three patients with de novo absence epilepsy after administration of
carbamazepine and vigabatrin. Despite the underlying diseases, the prognosis for drug-…

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is a rare inflammatory demyelinating disease
of the central nervous system. The experience in children is limited. We retrospectively …

To re-evaluate the diagnostic criteria for early myoclonic encephalopathy (EME), the following
study was done. During the past 2 years, five patients with erratic, fragmentary myoclonus …

The classic form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease is a rare X-linked dysmyelinating disorder
of the central nervous system in which mutations of the proteolipid protein gene have been …