Table 1.
Main neurological features in Mowat-Wilson Syndrome.
Neurological Features | Possible Therapeutic Intervention |
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head and brain malformations | head size and skull | microcephaly [2,24,49,53] | |
Craniosynostosis [56,57] | neurosurgery [56,57] | ||
corpus callosum | complete agenesis [58] | ||
partial agenesis [58] | |||
hypoplasia 37% [58] | |||
hippocampus | bilateral morphological abnormalities or positional anomalies [58] | ||
white matter abnormalities | reduction of thickness [58] | ||
ventriculomegaly [12,58] | |||
cortical development | polymicrogyria, pachygyria, periventricular heterotopia [56,58,59] | ||
focal cortical dysplasia [4,58] | |||
cerebellar | hypoplastic or macro cerebellum [58,72] | ||
absent or small cerebellar vermis [58] | |||
other | CNS tumor [58,62] | ||
large basal ganglia [58] | |||
MC-I [15] | |||
epilepsy | seizures | febrile seizures [17,63,64] | AEDs (VPA; LEV; bi-therapy, tri-therapy [7,17,63]); VNS [65]; Steroids [63] |
focal seizures [17,63] | |||
atypical absences [17,63] | |||
EEG | focal abnormalities [17,63,64] | ||
slowing of background activity [17,63,64] | |||
ESES [63,64] | |||
sleep disorders | SDSC questionnaire | pathological results in “sleep wake transition” and “initiating and maintaining sleep” sub-scales [70] | melatonin; niaprazine, benzodiazepines [64,70] |
sleep architecture (polysomnography) | TST reduction and WASO increase [64] |