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Merge, they are the same. "The first full description of the syndrome... ... was made by by Isaacs in 1961."

"Since these initials reports, a number of different terms have been used to describe the same electrophysiological and motor features... including... Isaacs' sydrome."

From a review article from Clinical Neurophysiology #117,2006 "Neuromyotonia" by Maddison

-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.69.153.131 (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Neuromyotonia is also known as Isaac's Syndrome." I just added that to the article. I searched medical literature (Medline database) and found mention of either "Isaacs Syndrome" or "Isaacs' Syndrome", so I used the latter name in the article. If anyone has more or better information, of course feel free to edit. DrVeghead 03:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, in the article Isaacs Syndrome, it talks about ataxia. Ataxia is a total lack of coordination, while neuromyotonia is generally a localised chorea. Ataxia is not the same as localised chorea. Mod.torrentrealm^blah 09:42, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

-- I am not a medical person, but was wondering if there is a cross-reference between <somebody's symptom> and the regular medical-latin terminology. Should there be a page "Isaacs' Syndrome" refering to this page ?
//rhi

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INDEPENDENT OPINION: Good point. This area of neurology/immunology is a constellation of overlapping illnesses with different names. In order of severity, the symptoms of Magnesium deficiency, Adrenal Fatigue, Chronic Fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Benign Fasciculation Syndrome, Neuromyotonia, Addison's Disease, etc, all have markedly similar 'core' symptoms with individual variants. It is possible that the difficulty in differential diagnosis is due to some of the illnesses being different manifestations of the same underlying problems, which may present different symptom-sets at different stages. This 'range' is being under-reported. For example, stressful illnesses in which the Adrenals are taxed may cause a yo-yo effect on energy symptoms in one stage, and only high or low energy at another. Another possibility is that low-or-high speed dyskenisia in the nervous system may present as twitching (low frequency) or anxiety (high frequency) or pain, yet have the same cause. There may be many persons affected by undiagnosed emotional problems in this way until there is a major breakdown in the body. Perhaps these conditions should be viewed as indirectly progressive, even if innately benign. A good deal of research is taking place at the present time and may offer more clarity. One possible way of bringing some of these conditions under one roof may be the presence of Voltage-Gated Potassium-Channel Antibodies, Anxiety, weakness, and excersise intolerance. 'Neuromyotonia" is the most inclusive and descriptive name for all these conditions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.71.15 (talk) 21:59, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with the merge:

I disagree, in the article Isaacs Syndrome, it talks about ataxia. Ataxia is a total lack of coordination, while neuromyotonia is generally a localised chorea. Ataxia is not the same as localised chorea.

Mod.torrentrealm^blah 09:42, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and redirected Isaacs Syndrome here. NINDS says they are the same. Plus, there was no content to merge (except a link to pl.wikipedia.org). --N Shar (talk · contribs) 21:49, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]