Nervous System Disorders and Diseases

Ask questions and share information about nervous system disorders and diseases here. Talk about vascular disorders (stroke, transient ischemic attack or TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage and hematoma, and extradural hemorrhage), infections (meningitis, encephalitis, polio, and epidural abscess), functional disorders ( headache, epilepsy, dizziness, and neuralgia), structural disorders (Bell's palsy, cervical spondylosis, carpal tunnel syndrome, brain or spinal cord tumors, peripheral neuropathy, and Guillain-Barre syndrome) and degeneration (Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington's chorea, and Alzheimer's disease).

Severe Pain, Numbness, and Bruising in Thumb

This has happened to me several times before but this one was by far the worst. I had been leading my horse around (no contact with my thumb) and my thumb just started to hurt. It started out small and irritating but quickly grew. The pain was located on the side of the nuckle (where it rounds out)...

by ClassicRascal4 over a year ago

Are these signs of Turrets?

I am 16 Years old and have a weird twitch in my arm and have the need to clack my teeth together and blink my eyes at the same time and if i don't get it perfect i will do it multiple times until I do, I don't have any real vocal tics or anything. When i twitch it's almost like a cough, i feel the...

by Guest over a year ago

scared ill fall all the time :(

ok like i have a severe balance problem where i feel like im gona fall bad. i've been to a neuroloogist, he said my brain is shrinking (i have no idea what that means) so like now im havin vertigo and other symptoms.

by guest over a year ago

one minute migranes.

i have been getting migranes. well more of a head pain. they last for one minute and it happens once a month maybe more than that. it feels as if a needle is just sliding into my brain? whats wrong with that? should i get my head checked or what?

by blah555 over a year ago

Strengthen Your Memory During Sleep

The researchers from the Harvard Medical School found that sleeping could strengthen the memories we made during the day. They chose the study participants and divided them into four groups. All participants were supposed to memorize word pairs. The first two groups had to remember just one group...

by Markos over a year ago

Passing out approximatly four times a week (Is this serious?)

Answered by a doctor

I got an E.G.G (Electroencephalogram) which checks for dementia, problems with the nervous system, spinal cords, or brain injures, it also checks for narcolepsy (which is a sleeping disorder) I have been passing out about 4 times a week for the last 5 years, there was an incident that accured 5...

by misssixty over a year ago

Social Stress May Kill Off New Brain Cells

Researchers from the Rosalind Franklin University found that severe stress could have hazardous effects on human brain and possible lead to depression. Their studies on rats showed that stress rats suffered did not prevent new brain cells to be generated but it did prevent the cells from...

by DanDan over a year ago

Brain problems

Hello everyone, for the last few days I have been getting the weirdest feelings in my head when I stand up and walk around. I don't really know how to explain it. It's not a heartbeat-like pulse. It's kind of like i'm blanking out for a milisecond. The shortest amount of time you wouldn't even...

by Josh over a year ago

Every Day Stuff

In August i just found out that i had turrets. It had been going on my whole life and everybody thought i could help it. It was just little tics, like breath noises, making other noises INSIDE my mouth, you know......little things. and then they got a little worse. Like Nodding my head up and down...

by Guest over a year ago

"Sleep training" found effective in fighting bedtime problems

Recent studies have determined that sleep disorders in children could be causing behavioral and learning problems later on. Reviewing over 52 sleep studies, researchers found that "sleep training" was effective in helping kids fall asleep and stay asleep. There are many behavioral tactics...

by Jane232591 over a year ago