Vol. 33 (6) 2012 Neuro endocrinology letters

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a unifying neuroendocrine hypothesis through the adrenal-brain axis.

: The clinical syndrome idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also termed pseudotumor cerebri, consists of symptoms of headache, nausea, vomiting and visual field defects in combination with findings of papilledema. IIH is more commonly seen in overweight women where the rise in intracranial pressure is putatively a consequence of.....