Living with multiple sclerosis (MS) or other chronic, progressive disease is a complex challenge. Life can be difficult when you’re healthy and it is even …
Neurological Disorders
How to Help With Seizures
The term seizure refers to a sudden malfunction or a temporary disturbance of the brain that causes a person to convulse or collapse. It can …
What Is Sciatica and How Can I Treat It?
Sciatica (or sciatic neuritis) is a symptom or set of symptoms, rather than a disease condition per se. That is, it’s a description of the …
The Junk Food-Alzheimer’s Connection
As people concerned about our health, readers of this Internet website have learned a great deal about how poor diet affects our health, and puts …
The Best Means of Avoiding Alzheimer’s Is Dance?
That seems to be the gist of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research, led by neurologist Dr. Joe …
‘Musical Memory Box’ Helps Alzheimer’s Sufferer
Are our memories of music stored and/or accessed differently in the brain than other memories? That is what is suggested by several research studies and …
How Hearing Loss May Affect Dementia
For another forum, I’ve written a number of articles lately about hearing loss, and thus have some idea how prevalent it is. Nearly one in …
A Drug for WHAT May Halt or Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease?
I should state at the outset that the research I’m reporting on was done on mice. Thus, it is preliminary, and no one who is …
Parkinson’s Disease – Definition, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Parkinson’s disease occurs when nerve cells, or neurons, in an area of the brain …