ReviewBrain communications2020
Nodding syndrome: a concise review.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus in the Presence of Catatonia: A Clinically Focused Review.General hospital psychiatryPooled it
- Cognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Manifestations in Nodding Syndrome: A Neuropsychological Narrative Review.Revista de neurologia · 2026Review
- The Nodding syndrome cerebrospinal fluid proteome: a lens into neurodevelopmental failure consistent with environmentally triggeredFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2026Article
- Insights into pathophysiology, biomarkers, and therapeutics in tauopathies: Proceedings of the Tau2024 Global Conference.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Crystal structure of N-terminally hexahistidine-tagged Onchocerca volvulus macrophage migration inhibitory factor-1.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2024Article
- Interventions to support the mental health of family carers of children with brain injury in low and middle income countries: a scoping review.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
- Parasitic, bacterial, viral, immune-mediated, metabolic and nutritional factors associated with nodding syndrome.Brain communications · 2023Article
- 'There Were Moments We Wished She Could Just Die': The Highly Gendered Burden of Nodding Syndrome in Northern Uganda.Qualitative health research · 2022Article
- Nodding syndrome: A key role for sources of nutrition?eNeurologicalSci · 2022Review
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- The neurology of chronic nodding syndrome.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Neuroimmunology of Common Parasitic Infections in Africa.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
- The position of geochemical variables as causal co-factors of diseases of unknown aetiology.SN applied sciences · 2022Review
- Risk Factors for Nodding Syndrome and Other Forms of Epilepsy in Northern Uganda: A Case-Control Study.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Systemic and cerebrospinal fluid immune and complement activation in Ugandan children and adolescents with long-standing nodding syndrome: A case-control study.Epilepsia open · 2021Article
- Case-Control Study of Nodding Syndrome in Acholiland: Urinary Multi-Mycotoxin Screening.Toxins · 2021Article
- Epilepsy inFrontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Nodding syndrome, many questions remain but we can prevent it by eliminating onchocerciasis.Brain communications · 2021Article
- Response to: 'Nodding syndrome, many questions remain but we can prevent it by eliminating onchocerciasis'.Brain communications · 2021Article
- Editorial June 2020.Brain communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Nodding syndrome is an uncommon epileptic disorder of childhood onset, which appears to occur exclusively in clusters in sub-Saharan Africa. It was first reported in the 1960s, in what is now southern Tanzania, then in Liberia, and later in South Sudan and northern Uganda, with both epidemic and endemic patterns described. The cause remains unknown. Here we describe the background and development of descriptions of the disorder, review its clinical features and summarize current theories and studies concerning its cause, outlining the principal remaining research questions relating to this highly unusual disease.
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