Yawning in neurology: a review

Hélio A. G. Teive; Renato P. Munhoz; Carlos Henrique F. Camargo; Olivier Walusinski

doi:10.1590/0004-282X20180057

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Table of Contents

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2018; 76(07): 473-480
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282X20180057

VIEWS AND REVIEWS

Yawning in neurology: a review

Bocejo em neurologia: uma revisão

Hélio A. G. Teive

¹Universidade Federal do Paraná, Hospital de Clínicas, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Unidade de Distúrbios do Movimento, Serviço de Neurologia, Curitiba PR, Brasil;

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Renato P. Munhoz

²University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Gloria and Morton Shulman Movement Disorders, Toronto, ON, Canada;

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Carlos Henrique F. Camargo

³Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Hospital Universitário, Serviço de Neurologia, Ponta Grossa PR, Brasil;

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Olivier Walusinski

⁴General Practice, Brou, France.

› Author Affiliations

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Yawning is a stereotyped physiological behavior that can represent a sign or symptom of several conditions, such as stroke, parakinesia brachialis oscitans, parkinsonism, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. More rarely, it can occur in patients with intracranial hypertension, brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, migraine, Chiari malformation type I, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Drug-induced yawning is an uncommon clinical condition and yawning in patients with autism or schizophrenia is very rare. The aim of this review is to describe in detail the occurrence of the phenomenon in such conditions, and its’ phenomenology and pathophysiology.

RESUMO

Bocejo é um comportamento estereotipado fisiológico, o qual, contudo, pode representar um sinal ou sintoma de várias condições neurológicas, tais como, acidente vascular encefálico, incluindo a parakinesia brachial oscitans, parkinsonismo, doença de Parkinson, e epilepsia. Mais raramente, o bocejo pode ocorrer em pacientes com hipertensão intra-craniana, tumor cerebral, esclerose múltipla, migrânea, malformação de Chiari tipo I, e esclerose lateral amiotrófica. Bocejo-induzido por drogas representa outra condição clínica pouco comum. De outro modo, bocejo é muito raro em pacientes com autismo e esquizofrenia. O objetivo desta revisão foi descrever em detalhes a ocorrência deste fençmeno em tais condições, sua fenomenologia e fisiopatologia.

yawning - parakinesia, stroke

bocejo - paracinesia - acidente vascular cerebral

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