NeuroTeach 14 - Animals in the brain (pareidolia)

Fantastic animals in the brain!!!

“From the tiny tadpole,

to the giant panda”

2)  Eye of the Tiger Sign

Clinical Correlate: Neurodegeneration With Brain Iron Accumulation Type 1

3) Face of the Panda Sign

Clinical Correlate: Wilson's Disease

4) Swallow Tail Sign

Clinical Correlate: Parkinson's Disease/Parkinson-Plus Syndromes

5) Hummingbird and Mickey Mouse Sign

Clinical Correlate: Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)

6) Ears of the Lynx

Clinical Correlate: Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (SPG 11 + 15)

7) Dragonfly-Like Cerebellar Pattern

Clinical Correlate: Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia Type 2

8) Tadpole Sign

Clinical Correlate: Adult-Onset Alexander's Disease

9) Tigroid and Leopard Skin Pattern

Clinical Correlate: Metachromatic Leucodystrophy

10) Bat Wing Sylvian Fissure

Clinical Correlate: Glutaric Aciduria Type 1

11) Bat Wing Fourth Ventricle

Clinical Correlate: Joubert Syndrome

12) "Tigers in the brain"

Tigroid and leopard skin pattern dysmyelination - Metachromatic Leucodystrophy Tigers eye - Hallervorden-Spatz disease Tiger stripe pattern in cerebellum - Lhermitte-Duclos disease

13) Owl & monkey face

Clinical Correlate: central pontine myelinolysis

14) Butterfly

Clinical correlate: glioma & glioma mimickers (primary lymphoma, tumefactive demyelinating lesion, metastasis, cerebral toxoplasmosis)

15) Cat tail

Clinical correlate: meningioma

16) Steer & buffalo horn ventricles

Clinical correlate: corpus callosum agenesis

17) Head of snakes (Caput medusae)

Clinical correlate: developmental venous anomalies

18) Crab of death

Clinical correlate: Subarachnoid hemorrhage

19) Shrimp

Clinical correlate: cerebellar progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)

20) Loss of swallow tail

Clinical correlated: Parkinson's disease, Parkinson-Plus syndromes

21) Donald Duck

Clinical correlate: rhombencephalosynapsis

22) Zebra

Clinical correlate: remote cerebellar hemorrhage

23) Giant panda cub

Clinical correlate: Wilson's disease (alteration in the dorsal pons)

24) Piglet face

Clinical correlate: osmotic demyelination syndrome

25) Bull's-eye

Clinical correlate: cerebral toxoplasmosis

26) Horseshoe

Clinical correlate: tumefactive demyelination lesion

27) Bird beak

Clinical correlate: Chiari type II malformation