The diagnosis of LBSL in humans is based on clinical presentation and is characterised by a slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia, spasticity, dorsal column dysfunction and a highly characteristic pattern of abnormalities observed using MRI and spectroscopy.
An attentional blink (AB) occurs when two target stimuli are presented within 200 500 ms of each other, under rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) conditions, and is characterised by an impairment in detecting the second target (T2) following successful identification of the first target (T1).
The cancer is characterised by presentation with advanced disease, a high rate of recurrence despite response to primary surgery/chemotherapy and ultimately low survival; a median overall survival of 3 4 years was defined in a recent international phase III clinical trial (Bookman et al, 2009).
It is a disease which is characterised by late presentation and a poor prognosis with an overall 5 year survival rate of 30%.
It is characterised by similar symptom presentation as IBS but also typically presents with blood stained diarrhoea and weight loss.
Tracheobronchial amyloidosis is the most common presentation form of thoracic amyloidosis, and it is characterised by the deposition of amyloid material as submucosal plaques and/or polypoid tumours in the airways [53], which may be localised, diffuse, or multifocal.
Neuroblastoma is characterised by a heterogeneous clinical presentation and course (Maris et al, 2007), but the prognosis is often severe (around 15% of all paediatric oncology deaths) (Joshi and Tsongalis, 1997).
It is the most common form of arthritis and is characterised by extreme variability in clinical presentation, rate of disease progression and patient outcomes.
As a process, diagnosis is characterised by the assessment of symptom presentations [ 13].
Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is the most frequent presentation in the clinical spectrum of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and it is characterised by progressive changes in personality and conduct.
