Brain Diseases

     




 


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  • A little about me
  • Brain diseases
  • Epilepsy/ seizureClick to open the Epilepsy/ seizure menu
    • Post Traumatic Epilepsy: when head trauma leaves behind a seizure disorder
    • Side-effects associated with anticonvulsant use
  • Seizures in children: febrile convulsions
  • Refractory seizures
  • Childhood Absence seizures
  • Unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
  • Non epileptic seizures or pseudoseizures
  • Infantile spasms and hypsarrhythmia
  • Seizures and alcohol
  • Syncope Vs Seizure
  • Epilepsy Surgery
  • Temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Driving with epilepsy
  • Brain Tumors
  • Brain tumors: going over the basics
  • Brain tumors: primary Vs secondary
  • Brain tumors: malignant gliomas
  • Brain tumors: meningiomas
  • Management of brain tumors
  • Radiation therapy
  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • MS presenting features
  • Issues that come up during MS treatment
  • MS treatment related issues
  • Is it MS?
  • MS and marijuana
  • Spinal MS
  • Transverse Myelitis
  • Multiple Sclerosis: making the diagnosis
  • White matter lesions, migraine and memory problems: a question and an answer
  • Erectile dysfunction in MS
  • Stroke classification
  • Stroke risk factors
  • Transient ischemic attack or TIA
  • Salt and stroke
  • Thrombolysis for stroke
  • Stroke prevention
  • Stroke rehabilitation
  • Neuropathy
  • Neuropathy presenting features
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
  • ALS pathophysiology
  • ALS terminal issues
  • CNS infections
  • Neuro trauma
  • HeadacheClick to open the Headache menu
    • Headaches-know the red flags
    • Low pressure headache–I better lie down.
  • Analgesic overuse headaches
  • When a headache is a pain! About primary and secondary headaches
  • Post coital headaches: a question and an answer
  • Muscle diseases
  • DementiasClick to open the Dementias menu
    • Dementia-it comes in many forms
  • Vitamin B12 for dementia
  • Senior moments and dementia
  • Dementia-it comes in many forms
  • Red flags for dementia
  • Back pain (radiculopathy/ myelopathy)
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Parkinson's disease: when to treat?
  • Tremor of Parkinson's disease
  • Not all tremors represent Parkinson’s disease
  • Early signs of Parkinson’s disease: making the diagnosis
  • Tremors
  • Tremor: what is essential about it?
  • Depression
  • Depression superimposed on dementia–two hits to the brain
  • HIV related neurological conditions
  • MRI white matter lesions
  • Brain Foods and more
  • Controlled eating Vs mindless munching
  • Brain and spirituality
  • How to seek a second opinion
  • Yoga and the brain
  • Stroke and nirvana
  • Successful aging
  • Bells palsy
  • Awake craniotomy during brain surgery
  • Neurobics
  • More neurobics
  • Foot drop
  • Falls in the elderly
  • Preventing falls in the elderly
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Incidental cerebral aneurysm
  • Brain death
  • Persistent vegetative state
  • Progressive cerebral atrophy after anoxic encephalopathy following cardiac arrest: a serial MRI study
  • Mind-body interventions
  • Carpel Tunnel Syndrome
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Developmental delay and regression
  • Brain our supercomputer
  • Second opinion
  • Sleep apnea syndrome
  • Bumps to the head: minor concussion and post concussive symptoms
  • Concussion and return to playClick to open the Concussion and return to play menu
    • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy-making the games we play safer
    • Head injuries sustained while playing contact sports such as boxing, ice-hockey and football—how concerned should we be about chronic traumatic encephalopathy?-A neurologist’s viewpoint
  • Post concussive syndrome
  • Coma
  • Alcohol and neurodegeneration
  • Alcoholic neuropathy
  • Neurology of aging
  • Confused mass of protoplasm
  • Multiple consultations versus medical shopping
  • Dementia and Aging
  • Behavioral problems in dementia
  • Cardiac death and organ transplantation
  • Syncope
  • Irritable bowel syndrome and brain
  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
  • Dr. Google
  • Forgetting to learn
  • Ginkgo biloba and memory
  • Cyberchondria
  • Statins and cognition
  • Q&As
  • I had a stroke like episode
  • Digitalization of medical records: pearls and perils
  • Brain Care Foundation
  • Hypothermia and Brain Arrest Protocol
  • A Doctor’s Point of View on the Doctor Patient Relationship
  • Post traumatic epilepsy or seizures after head trauma
  • Post traumatic epilepsy
  • Incidentally discovered aneurysms in the brain-what to do about them?
  • Syncope Vs Seizure: the quest for an answer
  • When a seizure is not a seizure (pseudoseizures)
  • Pseudoseizures
  • When hospitals fail
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