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RevieweNeurologicalSci2022

Nodding syndrome: A key role for sources of nutrition?

P S Spencer, C Okot, V S Palmer, R Valdes Angues, R Mazumder

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Review in eNeurologicalSci, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Nodding Syndrome: Shifting the Focus from Cause to Treatment.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

P S SpencerDepartment of Neurology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
C OkotCase-worker in Gulu, Uganda.
V S PalmerDepartment of Neurology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
R Valdes AnguesDepartment of Neurology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
R MazumderDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
Oregon Health & Science University · USGulu University · UGUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Etiology of Nodding Syndrome: an Epileptic Disorder of East African ChildrenR21NS108355 · NINDS · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI MWAKA, DEOGRATIUS AMOS, SPENCER, PETER S · 2018 to 2019
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NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS108355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nodding Syndrome (NS) has occurred among severely food-stressed communities in northern Uganda and several other East African populations that, with their forced physical displacement, have resorted to nutritional support from available wild plants and fungi, some of which have neurotoxic potential. Among the latter is an agaric mushroom with an unknown content of hydrazine-generating agaritine, namely

Indexed as

AgaritineDisplacementHypovitaminosisMalnutritionPyridoxineTauopathy

Identifiers

PMID35480298
PMCPMC9035392
OpenAlexW4223583348

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