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The spectrum of disease and tau pathology of nodding syndrome in Uganda
(Brain, 2021)
Nodding syndrome is an enigmatic recurrent epidemic neurologic disease that affects children in East Africa. The illness
begins with vertical nodding of the head and can progress to grand mal seizures and death after ...
Nodding syndrome in Uganda is a tauopathy
(Acta neuropathologica, 2018)
Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming
communities of East Africa. We report the neuropathologic findings in five fatal cases (13–18 years of ...