Living Well With Epilepsy: Sleep, Driving Rules, Work and Keeping a Seizure Diary
Most people with epilepsy live full lives, but three areas need planning. Driving is usually paused after any seizure until a legally set seizure-free…
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Articles on the brain and nervous system: headaches, dizziness, numbness, memory concerns and common neurological conditions. Every piece flags the warning signs that need urgent medical attention rather than reading.
Living With Essential Tremor: Eating, Writing and Caffeine Habits Your Neurologist May Discuss
Living with essential tremor usually means managing a long-term, non-life-threatening shaking of the hands, head or voice rather than treating a disease that shortens…
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When Does a Traumatic Brain Injury Need Surgery? How Pressure and Imaging Guide the Decision
A traumatic brain injury usually needs surgery when bleeding or swelling raises pressure inside the rigid skull enough to threaten brain tissue. Surgeons weigh…
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Myasthenia Gravis Follow-Up: Which Breathing or Swallowing Changes Need Urgent Care
In myasthenia gravis, seek urgent care the same day if you notice new or worsening shortness of breath, trouble lying flat, a weak cough,…
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Can Sleep, Hydration and Regular Meals Change a Migraine Treatment Plan’s Results?
Sleep, hydration and regular meals do not replace migraine treatment, but they can change how well a plan appears to work. Irregular sleep, dehydration…
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Orthotics, Walkers and Standing Frames in Cerebral Palsy: How Equipment Supports Movement
Orthotics and equipment for cerebral palsy do not change the brain injury itself; they change what the body can do with the movement it…
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Will You Need a Second Craniotomy? When Repeat Brain Surgery Is Part of the Plan
Some people do need a second craniotomy, but it is not the norm and it is rarely a sign that the first operation failed.…
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When Does Dysphagia Need a Specialist? How ENT, Neurology and Gastroenterology Roles Differ
Dysphagia usually needs a specialist when swallowing trouble lasts more than a few weeks, keeps getting worse, causes coughing or choking with meals, or…
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How Do Home Exercises and School Routines Fit Into a Cerebral Palsy Therapy Plan?
Home exercises and school routines are usually the largest part of a cerebral palsy therapy plan, not an add-on to it. Therapists set goals…
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Recovering From a Multiple Sclerosis Relapse: What the First Weeks of Rehabilitation Involve
Multiple sclerosis relapse recovery usually unfolds over weeks to months rather than days. Symptoms typically peak, plateau, then fade as inflammation settles and the…
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After DBS for Tremor: Wound Care, Device Programming and the Gradual Adjustment Period
Recovery after DBS for tremor happens in stages. The scalp and chest incisions usually heal over the first few weeks, while the stimulator is…
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When Is Epilepsy Surgery Considered? The Path From Medication Trials to Surgical Evaluation
Epilepsy surgery is usually considered when seizures keep happening despite adequate trials of two appropriately chosen, well-tolerated antiseizure medicines, a situation neurologists call drug-resistant…
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FND Myths Corrected: Why Functional Neurological Disorder Is Neither Imagined Nor Untreatable
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a real, recognized condition in which the brain's networks for movement, sensation or awareness stop working properly, even though…
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When a Vagus Nerve Stimulator Battery Runs Down: What Generator Replacement Involves
VNS battery replacement is a planned, usually short operation in which the surgeon reopens the small scar over the pulse generator in the upper…
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Which Orthoses, Walking Aids and Home Equipment Help in HSP, and How Are They Chosen?
In hereditary spastic paraplegia, the most commonly used equipment includes ankle-foot orthoses to control foot drop and toe-catching, walking sticks, hiking poles or wheeled…
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IVIG, Steroids or Plasma Exchange for CIDP: How the Three Treatments Differ
IVIG, corticosteroids and plasma exchange are the three first-line treatments for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and the trials that compared them head to…
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Preparing for Narcolepsy Testing: Sleep Diaries, Medication Lists and Symptom Notes
Preparing for narcolepsy testing usually means keeping a sleep diary for one to two weeks, listing every medicine and supplement you take so your…
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What Can Headache Medicine Realistically Change? Frequency, Severity and Daily Disability
Headache medicine can realistically reduce how many headache days you have each month, shorten and soften individual attacks, and lower the hours lost to…
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