Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) involves neurological symptoms arising from brain network changes rather than structural damage, often described as a “software” issue rather than a “hardware” problem. Symptoms…
Pompe disease is a progressive, life-threatening genetic neuromuscular disorder. Late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD), affecting individuals over one year old, leads to trunk and proximal muscle weakness, often impacting…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with incidental MRI anomalies resembling demyelinated lesions that are not due to another disease process are at increased risk for multiple sclerosis…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While prophylactic cranial irradiation can reduce the occurrence of brain metastases and improve survival in patients treated for extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer, it…
By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The increase in autism prevalence that many studies have reported in recent years may be attributable, at least…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Serum procalcitonin is highly sensitive and specific for differentiating bacterial from aseptic meningitis in pediatric patients, physicians in Europe report in the December…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Progressive task-repetitive treadmill exercise recruits cerebellum-midbrain and subcortical circuits to promote gait recovery after hemiparetic stroke, according to trial results published in the…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Combining eptifibatide with low-dose recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) appears to be a safe thrombolytic strategy for acute ischemic stroke, study findings in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with treatment-refractory temporal lobe epilepsy, the quality of life and mortality benefit from being seizure-free with surgery outweighs the risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Although often billed as a memory and cognition enhancing product, Ginkgo biloba does not stave off cognitive decline or help prevent dementia and…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus reduced symptoms and improved function in patients with severe, refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during a trial conducted…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elevated nonfasting levels of triglycerides, a marker for remnant lipoproteins, are associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, according to analysis of…
