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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).

Neuropsychological symptom in mercury poisoning

I am very frightened for my husband. He works as a member of the sanitary team in the factory that recycles all sorts of materials. But he has developed some strange symptoms; he is always tired and nervous. I have been told that it might be a neuropsychological symptom in mercury poisoning and that...

by User avatar neile141881904

High heels Morton's neuroma

Answered by a doctor

Hi, I have a strong tingling pain in my left foot, on the tip of the foot between third and fourth toe. I started feeling the pain after twisting my ankle on the stairs three months ago, the ankle healed well and I recovered very well but the pain in the toes remained and it even increased in...

by User avatar Guest

on & off headaches for the past 3 weeks, help!!!

For the past three weeks I've had real bad headaches, sometimes the pain is throbbing, sometimes it's dull, sometimes it's tolerable & others it isn't. Sometimes it's on one side or the other, it can be my whole head or just the back along with neck pain & sometimes...

by User avatar Guest

Free Surgery for Boy Ends in Brain Death

A 16-year-old Russian boy, David Kurbanov, came halfway around the world to a hospital in Oklahoma city that was willing to remove his brain tumor for free. However, positive story St. Anthony Hospital and neurosurgeon Paul Francel hoped to tell became tragic when the surgery left David brain dead....

by User avatar Jenny3481

Bells Palsy

My sister has had bells palsy for 3 months now...with each passing day she is becoming more frustrated...was on predisone and antiviral med at the beginning...she does facial nerve exercises and tapes her face at bedtime..just want to know why do some people recover in a few weeks or a month and...

by User avatar rere

frontal lobe siezures

I have a friend who has epilepsy, and I found out that is interesting disorder. I wanted to know more about it, so I asked her to tell me something about it. She just told me she has problems with frontal lobe seizures. Now I do not understand anything so I need your help. Can you tell me anything...

by User avatar dulciana705

talking to someone while asleep?

hello, ok something happened last night that freaked me a little last night. Let me give u a background first. I have tourette's syndrome and had deep brain stimulation surgery so I have electrodes which pass a small current through my brain to block the signals that cause the uncontrollable...

by User avatar cduval04177614

headaches but not too painful

So after reading many of your posts I recently suffer from a minor pain level 1.  It comes once a hour or two, pain is minimal but annoyance is level 5. This is common if you were sick previously for 2-3 weeks.  Another thing that affects this is because of stress.  You may be...

by User avatar Guest

two numb pinkies

my two pinkies feel numb, i can move them but they feel as if they are frozen. for the past three days. what is wrong with me ?

by User avatar Guest

Prognosis for ataxia telangiectasia patients with functional immune systems?

I know that there are two kinds of ataxia telangiectasia - ataxia telangiectasia where the patient has a fully functional immune system, and ataxia telangiectasia where the patient has a severely malfunctioning immune system. Please tell me more about the prognosis for ataxia telangiectasia with...

by User avatar derron1638200293