Fulminant corticobasal degeneration: Agrypnia excitata in corticobasal syndrome

Federico Rodríguez‐Porcel, Lindsey Lowder, Rosa Rademakers, Thomas A. Ravenscroft, Bernardino Ghetti, Mathew C. Hagen, Alberto J. Espay

Neurology · 2016 · 13 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) may be expressed as an atypical parkinsonism with a mean disease survival of about 7 years,1 the shortest reported survival being 24 months.2 We report a patient with corticobasal syndrome (CBS) and pathology-confirmed CBD whose 10-month course was manifested as a frontal alien hand evolving into agrypnia excitata.

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