Long Covid — the name adopted for cases of prolonged symptoms after an acute bout of Covid-19 — is an umbrella diagnosis covering a broad range of clinical presentations and abnormal biological ...
In the group home for people with disabilities that I manage, there are residents who have developed epileptic seizures after ...
No test can explain why they can’t walk without falling, why their leg won’t stop trembling, or why they experience seizures that leave them exhausted for hours, even days. Some begin to wonder if ...
Functional visual loss is a common issue in neuro-ophthalmology settings. There are many studies focused on diagnosis, but there is limited literature on associated epidemiology, phenomenology, ...
Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs’ (Jean-Martin Charcot, 1868)1 At its heart, the ...
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) results in fluctuating control of voluntary activities. PM&R Associate Professor Victor Mark, M.D. explains why FND has only recently begun to be acknowledged as ...
A recent study investigated whether the body’s oxytocin system acts as a biological risk factor for Functional Neurological Disorder. The findings indicate that while genetic variations do not appear ...
If you are struggling with neurological symptoms that are hard to explain—stroke-like symptoms, tremors, loss of vision, blackouts, or non-epileptic seizures—there is a good chance your health care ...
A mum had her leg amputated after doctors misdiagnosed a rare vascular disease as “anxiety”. Danielle Thomas, 40, said she ...