Keywords Pediatric, infantile, peripheral neuropathy, demyelination, axonal, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Dejerine-Sottas disease, congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy   Introduction The congenital and infantile neuropathies are an uncommon and complex group of conditions with…

Keywords Neuropathy, mononeuropathy, pediatric, median, ulnar, peroneal, tibial, sciatic   Introduction Mononeuropathies are rare in children, accounting for fewer than 10% of pediatric referrals for electromyographic (EMG) testing. This is…

Keywords Peripheral neuropathy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome, electromyography   Introduction The term peripheral neuropathy refers to a disorder affecting one or more components of the peripheral nervous system, specifically axons,…

Keywords Alacrima, anhidrosis, autonomic dysfunction, baroreflex failure, congenital insensitivity to pain, familial dysautonomia (FD), hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies (HSAN), insensitivity to pain, orthostatic hypotension   Introduction The hereditary sensory…

Keywords CMT, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP), HNPP, distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN), distal spinal muscular atrophy (dSMA), PMP22, CMT1, CMT2, CMT4, CMTX, MPZ, Connexin…

Keywords Asymmetric crying facies, Bell’s palsy, blink responses, brainstem, facial EMG, facial nerve, facial microsomia, Lyme disease, Moebius syndrome   Introduction Facial palsy is one of the most frequent mononeuropathies…

Keywords Nerve root, radiculopathy, plexus, plexopathy, brachial, lumbosacral   Anatomy In total, there are 31 spinal nerve root pairs: 8 in relation to the 7 cervical vertebrae, 12 thoracic, 5…

Keywords Stiff man, stiff person, stiff child, autoimmune, GAD antibody, GAD65 antibody, diabetes, thyroid, glycine   Introduction The stiff-man syndrome (SMS, also known as stiff-person syndrome) is a rare central…

Keywords Spinal muscular atrophy, 5q SMA, non-5q SMAs, survival of motor neuron protein, Werdnig-Hoffman disease, Dubowitz disease, Kugelberg-Welander disease   Introduction Spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) are genetic disorders that are…

Keywords Poliomyelitis, vaccine associated poliomyelitis, post-polio syndrome, Hopkins syndrome, rabies, tetanus   Infantile Poliomyelitis Historical Background To many physicians in the developed world, poliomyelitis serves as a dramatic example of…