ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2006
Sneeze related area in the medulla: localisation of the human sneezing centre?
Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- When the sun prickles your nose: an EEG study identifying neural bases of photic sneezing.PloS one · 2010Trial
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- The sneeze reflex in physiological and pathological states: a mini review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- The Trigeminal Sensory System and Orofacial Pain.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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- Cough as a neurological sign: What a clinician should know.World journal of critical care medicine · 2022Article
- The sigh and related behaviors.Handbook of clinical neurology · 2022Review
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- Intractable Sneezing Unfolding a Hideous Truth.Cureus · 2021Article
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- Investigations on the prevalence of the photo-induced sneezing reflex in the German population, a representative cross-sectional study.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2017Article
- Paroxysmal sneezing in NMOSD: Further evidence of the localization of the human sneeze center.Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation · 2017Article
- Paroxysmal sneezing at the onset of syncopes and transient ischemic attack revealing a papillary cardiac fibroelastoma.Case reports in neurological medicine · 2014Article
- Paroxysmal rhinorrhea after medullary infarct.Case reports in neurology · 2012Article
- The role of particle size in aerosolised pathogen transmission: a review.The Journal of infection · 2011Review
- Sneezing induced by sexual ideation or orgasm: an under-reported phenomenon.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2008Review
- Nasonasal reflexes, the nasal cycle, and sneeze.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2007Review
- Autonomic nervous system dysfunction and sinonasal symptoms.Allergy & rhinology (Providence, R.I.)Article
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Abstract
Sneezing is a rarely explored symptom in neurological practice. In the cat, a sneeze evoking centre is located in the medulla. The existence of a sneezing centre has not been confirmed in humans. A case with abnormal sneezing secondary to a strategic infarct in the right latero-medullary region is presented. A 66 year old man suddenly presented paroxysmal sneezing followed by ataxia, right sided motor and sensory symptoms, and hoarseness. The application of stimuli to the right nasal fossa did not evoke sneezing nor the wish to sneeze. The same stimuli to the contralateral nasal fossa evoked normal sneezing. The preservation of the superficial sensitivity of the nasal fossa indicates that the lesion was localised in the hypothetical human sneezing centre, very close to the spinal trigeminal tract and nucleus. This centre appears to be bilateral and functionally independent on both sides.
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