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Inability to Sneeze as a Manifestation of Medullary Neoplasm Neurol 41:1675-1676, Martin,R.A., 1991 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract While excessive sneezing may be considered a manifestation of disease, inability to sneeze is a rarely described symptom.A recent report found this symptom in 1.1%of a psychiatric population in India.The most common association was with endogenous depression and schizophrenia;the symptom frequently remitted with treatment of the primary disorder.There are no similar reports in Western cultures.We report a young man with a medullary neoplasm who was unable to sneeze despite a sensory urge to do so,and we propose an explanation for this symptom based on animal studies.

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