Here we address some burning questions on how to manage MCL patients, spacing from prognostic issues to the dilemma of personalized treatment in different scenarios of the disease: how to diagnose an MCL? Which are the fundamental staging procedures? What are the most reliable prognosticators? Is...
My assistant watched me fumble through that class, said, “Honey, you’re not okay,” and drove me to the hospital. We waited about four hours before seeing the doctor who would order a test and diagnose me with a concussion and a “possible brain bleed.” Then he sent me and my ...
Your doctor may diagnose your symptoms as “sciatica”. Sciatica is a term doctors use to describe pain and sensations caused by compression of the sciatica nerve. This compression is normally caused by a disc herniation or a bone spur pressing on one of the nerves in the lower back Sensation...
How are radiopharmaceuticals used to diagnose neurological diseases? How did Paul Broca discover aphasia? Is aphasia a cognitive-communication disorder? Why is offensive language prevalent in Tourette syndrome? Can auditory processing disorder get worse? Is conduction aphasia fluent or nonfluent? How do...
In recent years, researchers have been working on more effective ways to diagnose concussions.In January 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first rapid handheld blood test for concussions. The test requires a small blood sample from the arm, from which plasma is ex...
A simple blood sample to diagnose patients with traumatic brain injury is an innovation enabled by researchers at Örebro University. In a new study, reported in Nature Communications, they have identified biomarkers in the blood that indicate how seri