Twitching And Pressure In The Temple: What do Hemifacial Spasms Signal?
Muscle twitching is a common occurrence that can happen hundreds of times a day as muscles respond to increased workloads, irregular levels of electrolytes like potassium, sodium and calcium or...
Electroencephalography (EEG) Side Effects
Overview An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a special investigation used to evaluate the electrical activity in the brain. This test can help detect any potential problems associated with electrical impulses that...
Central Core Myopathy: What Is The Prognosis And What Are Treatment Options?
Central core myopathy (also called central core disease of the muscles or just central core disease) is a rare genetic disorder that affects the muscles used for everyday movement. The...
Numbness Of The Head
Whenever you feel numbness in any part of your body, it is a sign of disturbed innervation or blood circulation in that specific area. However, the reasons for these disturbances...
How Can You Help Median Nerve Damage Heal?
Millions of people have damage to the median nerve, which flows through the carpal tunnel in the wrist to the hand. Most of the time the problem is something called...
Arachnoid Cysts: What They Are, What to Expect
Arachnoid cysts are sacs of spinal fluid that grow on the arachnoid membrane, one of the three layers of tissue protecting the brain. They can also grow at the base...
Problems with Your Sympathetic Nervous System and What to Do About Them
Your sympathetic nervous system provides the "fight or flight" response of your body to stress. It prepares your body for action by regulating your heartbeat, the release of sugar from...
Hypochondria Is a Disease Unto Itself
People whose sickness is that they think they are sick are, well, sick. Hypochondriasis, the medical term for hypochondria, is a medical condition with a concise definition in the USA...
Diagnoses of Dire Diseases and Who Should Make Them
About 1 out of every 25,000 people in the world will develop Huntington disease. That means 24,999 out of every 25,000 people will not. The Baylisascaris procyonis parasite is found in...
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is one of the weirdest syndromes reported by some persons. Though it was noticed a long time ago, scientists were not particularly interested in it...