Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System

The reticular activating system is the part of the brain that maintains the sleep/wake cycle. Any damage to this region can cause hypersomnolence and drowsiness along with altered sensorium. This case presents a patient with cerebellar and midbrain stroke with infarct of the reticular activating sys...

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Autores principales: Sadiq, Waleed, Subhan, Madeeha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29119068
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1637
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description The reticular activating system is the part of the brain that maintains the sleep/wake cycle. Any damage to this region can cause hypersomnolence and drowsiness along with altered sensorium. This case presents a patient with cerebellar and midbrain stroke with infarct of the reticular activating system, leading to hypersomnolence, drowsiness, and altered sensorium.
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spelling pubmed-56656912017-11-08 Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System Sadiq, Waleed Subhan, Madeeha Cureus Neurology The reticular activating system is the part of the brain that maintains the sleep/wake cycle. Any damage to this region can cause hypersomnolence and drowsiness along with altered sensorium. This case presents a patient with cerebellar and midbrain stroke with infarct of the reticular activating system, leading to hypersomnolence, drowsiness, and altered sensorium. Cureus 2017-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5665691/ /pubmed/29119068 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1637 Text en Copyright © 2017, Sadiq et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sadiq, Waleed
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Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System
title Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System
title_full Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System
title_fullStr Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System
title_full_unstemmed Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System
title_short Ischemic Stroke of Midbrain and Cerebellum Involving Reticular Activating System
title_sort ischemic stroke of midbrain and cerebellum involving reticular activating system
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29119068
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1637
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