Baby Bobble Head Syndrome

The syndrome is related to cystic lesions and swelling of the third ventricle in the brain.

Baby bobble head syndrome.

It is a disorder of the central nervous system. More detailed information about the symptoms causes and treatments of bobble head doll syndrome is available below. Bobble head doll syndrome is a rare neurological movement disorder in which patients usually children around age 3 begin to bob their head and shoulders forward and back or sometimes side to side involuntarily in a manner reminiscent of a bobblehead doll. It affects how the kitten moves not just in the beginning of life but all through it.

Its chief features are a 2 to 3 per second up and down or to and fro bobbing of the head sometimes also of the trunk which could be inhibited voluntarily and disappeared in sleep. The messages to the brain are short circuited somehow. Bobble head doll syndrome bhds is a rare neurological condition that is typically first seen in childhood. This has been done as part of my intro to neuroscience class at georgia t.

The signs and symptoms of bhds include characteristic up and down head movements that increase during walking and excitement and decrease during concentration. A rare condition where a child s head bobs up and down continuously due to either fluid on the brain or a large cyst in the third ventricle of the brain. Mri of the. Although the specific cause of this condition is unknown bhds is often seen with cysts in the third ventricle of the brain that also cause hydrocephalus water on the brain.

But wobbly kitten is a different sort of movement. A video review of an article written by nelia zamponi on bobble head doll syndrome. The pathogenesis of this movement disorder and the differential diagnosis of head bobbing in children are discussed. In 2011 the crown prosecution service recommended the term be replaced with nahi.

Sunil patel chief of neurosurgery at the medical university of south carolina discusses a rare case of bobble head doll syndrome. The messages are not received in a timely fashion. Abstract a third patient with the bobble head doll syndrome was reported. Two new cases of the bobble head doll syndrome are presented and the literature is reviewed.

Nitish agarwal m b b s and amol raheja m b b s m ch. Bobblehead doll syndrome list of authors. Non accidental head injury nahi or shaken baby syndrome the term shaken baby syndrome which consists of a triad of symptoms has become controversial both medically and legally. A 5 year old girl presented with a 2 year history of excessive head nodding.