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MRI surveillance demonstrated progressive T2 hyperintensity with focal cortical oedema correlating to symptoms observed during clinical episodes.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Genetic testing for hemiplegic migraine, mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes along with exome sequencing and high-density microarray did not reveal a cause for the clinical phenotype. The diagnosis of neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) was confirmed by the detection of large guanine-guanine-cytosine repeat expansion in the Notch 2 N-terminal-like C gene using long-read nanopore sequencing.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>NIID is a genetic neurodegenerative disease, more common in Asian populations. It can present with a varied neurological phenotype, including an episodic event type that can mimic hemiplegic migraine and encephalopathy. 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