Baby Bobble Head Syndrome

Two new cases of the bobble head doll syndrome are presented and the literature is reviewed.

Baby bobble head syndrome.

It affects how the kitten moves not just in the beginning of life but all through it. 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. Characterized by a y. A video review of an article written by nelia zamponi on bobble head doll syndrome.

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. 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. 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. This is a tic like movement disorder described thus far only in children.

In 2011 the crown prosecution service recommended the term be replaced with nahi. The syndrome is related to cystic lesions and swelling of the third ventricle in the brain. Mri of the. The messages are not received in a timely fashion.

Symptoms of bobble head doll syndrome. But wobbly kitten is a different sort of movement. The signs and symptoms of bhds include characteristic up and down head movements that increase during walking and excitement and decrease during concentration. The pathogenesis of this movement disorder and the differential diagnosis of head bobbing in children are discussed.

This has been done as part of my intro to neuroscience class at georgia t. A 5 year old girl presented with a 2 year history of excessive head nodding. Abstract a third patient with the bobble head doll syndrome was reported. 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.

Nitish agarwal m b b s and amol raheja m b b s m ch. Bobblehead doll syndrome list of authors. It is a disorder of the central nervous system. The messages to the brain are short circuited somehow.