Baby Bobble Head Syndrome

Nitish agarwal m b b s and amol raheja m b b s m ch.

Baby bobble head syndrome.

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. The syndrome is related to cystic lesions and swelling of the third ventricle in the brain. It is a disorder of the central nervous system.

Abstract a third patient with the bobble head doll syndrome was reported. Sunil patel chief of neurosurgery at the medical university of south carolina discusses a rare case of bobble head doll syndrome. 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. The messages to the brain are short circuited somehow.

Bobblehead doll syndrome list of authors. A 5 year old girl presented with a 2 year history of excessive head nodding. 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. In 2011 the crown prosecution service recommended the term be replaced with nahi.

This is a tic like movement disorder described thus far only in children. Two new cases of the bobble head doll syndrome are presented and the literature is reviewed. Bobble head doll syndrome bhds is a rare neurological condition that is typically first seen in childhood. The messages are not received in a timely fashion.

The signs and symptoms of bhds include characteristic up and down head movements that increase during walking and excitement and decrease during concentration. Characterized by a y. The pathogenesis of this movement disorder and the differential diagnosis of head bobbing in children are discussed. It affects how the kitten moves not just in the beginning of life but all through it.

But wobbly kitten is a different sort of movement. 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. This has been done as part of my intro to neuroscience class at georgia t. A video review of an article written by nelia zamponi on bobble head doll syndrome.