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Hand up! Yawn and raise your arm.
International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society - 1 Feb 2010
Walusinski O, Neau J-P, Bogousslavsky J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In some cases of hemiplegia, the initiation of yawning is associated with involuntary raising of the paralysed arm. Reports are scarce in the literature, probably because the phenomenon has largely been overlooked. METHODS: We studied six patients from two neurologic units, and compared them with published cases from the last 200 years. Brain imaging typically shows a small vascular lesion most often...
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