Neurological Disorders

Australian research pinpoints brain dysfunction in hyperactive kids.......

Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults. One in three people older than 60 and half of those older than 85 have hearing loss. Hearing problems can make it hard to understand and follow a doctor’s advice, to respond to warnings, and to hear doorbells and alarms.

It's a pity when one encounters people known for their brilliant minds progressively losing their memory, intelligence and other brain functions.

Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. In epilepsy, the normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions, and behavior or sometimes convulsions, muscle spasms, and loss of consciousness.

The most common but perhaps least understood of all mental illnesses are schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is actually a group of serious mental disorders characterized by disturbed thinking, emotional barriers, and a partial divorce from reality.

Sleep apnea is a common disorder that can be very serious. In sleep apnea, your breathing stops or gets very shallow while you are sleeping. Each pause in breathing typically lasts 10 to 20 seconds or more. These pauses can occur 20 to 30 times or more an hour.

If you have lower back pain, you are not alone. Nearly everyone at some point has back pain that interferes with work, routine daily activities, or recreation. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most common cause of job-related disability and a leading contributor to missed work. Back pain is the second most common neurological ailment in the United States — only headache is more common.

Spina bifida (SB) is a neural tube defect, a disorder involving incomplete development of the brain, spinal cord, and/or their protective coverings caused by the failure of the fetus's spine to close properly during the first month of pregnancy.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem, especially among male adolescents and young adults ages 15 to 24, and among elderly people of both sexes 75 years and older. Children aged 5 and younger are also at high risk for TBI.

Elderly people (that is, people aged 65 years and older) are more prone to heat stress than younger people for several reasons.

Sleep seems critical to memory, predominantly the ability to recall recently learned fact and events, researchers have reported.

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder. It affects about 1 percent of people all over the world, including 2.4 million Americans and has been recognized throughout recorded history.

The brain is the most delicate organ in the body. In order to give the best chance of limiting damage, brain attacks should be heeded even more urgently than heart attacks.
Besides being the third leading cause of death, stroke is one of the major causes of serious disability in the United States. It can paralyze the arms and legs and can slur speech.

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. But there is good news: bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with this illness can lead full and productive lives.