Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are neurobehavioral conditions positioned in a gray zone, not infrequently a no-man land, that lies in the intersection between Neurology and Psychiatry.
Unfortunately, he developed Covid-19 pneumonia during the third week of tapering dose prednisolone. This resulted in readmission to hospital ... The oral prednisolone was changed to intravenous ...
The virus particularly targets the temporal lobe of the brain causing debilitating problems in memory, especially verbal memory. It is postulated that immunomodulation with the corticosteroid, ...
Six patients received dexamethasone with an initial dose of 12 mg/d and subsequent slow tapering. 3 patients received a monotherapy with 60-100 mg prednisolone for 4 days or 250-1000 mg ...