Epilepsy types: Surgery for epilepsy
Epilepsy is a condition which is most commonly related to imbalances between the inhibitory neurotransmitters in our brain and the neurotransmitters in charge of electric impulses. When the two are...
First-line treatments for OCD
There are not that many people who have never heard of obsessive compulsive disorder. However, most people do not know what exactly it is, even though they have heard of...
Encephalitis symptoms in children
Encephalitis is an acute inflammation of the brain, often caused by viral infection. In most cases, encephalitis causes flu-like symptoms and in many cases even goes unnoticed. In more severe...
Safty mesurs and job restirction with epilepsy
Due to seizures and other healthproblems it can cause, epilepsy may present a problem once anaffected person desires to find a job. Since all people who work at acertain post...
Viral encephalitis symptoms
Viral encephalitis is a medical term that refers to viral inflammation of the brain. In most cases such inflammation is caused by enterovirus.Once the virus enters the body, it spreads...
Epilepsy symptoms in children: Epilepsy juvenile absence
What is Juvenile Absence Epilepsy?Its specific features and distinct EEG images characterize juvenile absence epilepsy. The disorder was first distinguished around the 1950s, and was officially classified as juvenile absence...
HSV encephalitis symptoms
Herpes virus is known as the cause of mouth sores. This disease may affect and degenerate the central nervous system (the brain) causing herpes simplex encephalitis. Besides the brain, this...
Neurological disorder dyspraxia
DyspraxiaDyspraxia is a disorder that influences coordination and movement. Research indicates it is a distortion of messages sent from brain to body. It is as disability to plan smooth and...
West nile encephalitis prognosis
West Nile encephalitis is a type of brain inflammation caused by the West Nile virus. The infection is contracted trough the bite of the infected mosquito ( above all the...
Tumors of the brain: Brain surgery
The brain is a mighty organ controlling all the functions in the body allowing all the organs to act according to the body's needs. Any damage to the brain's structure...