It is also important to focus on symptoms and comorbidities that affect quality of life.doi:10.1007/s11940-021-00662-8Le H. HuaCleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, USASpringer USCurrent Treatment Options in Neurology...
Women with MS tend to have fewer relapses, or disease flare-ups, during pregnancy, although the risk of relapse increases in the first three to six months after delivery of the baby.Symptoms of MS in menWhile women tend to be diagnosed with RRMS/SPMS in higher numbers than men, men are...
After your diagnosis, it's important to let your healthcare provider know about any changes or new symptoms you experience. It's typical for MS symptoms to get better or completely go away for a time, and then come back with new or worse symptoms. Remember that just because MS can cause...
Learn more from this WebMD slideshow about multiple sclerosis, MS -- its cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and other facts.
The first signs of the disease are different for children. It might start after a child has a nerve disorder called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). Most of the time, the symptoms of ADEM -- including headache, confusion, coma, seizures, stiff neck, fever, and major lack of ener...
The pathogenesis of AD is still unclear, and the recognized causes include acetylcholine deficiency, free radicals, and inflammation of brain tissue; and there is no cure, but effective drug therapy can improve the patients’ symptoms to improve the quality of life [6–8]. Many medicines in ...
Administration with L-dopa in patients with PD and motor fluctuations significantly increases total on time with no or non-troublesome dyskinesia, decreases off time, and improves parkinsonism, indicating that it improves motor symptoms and parkinsonism without worsening dyskinesia [13,14]. The effects...
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Physical dependence is a physiological state in which the body adapts to the drug after a period of regular exposure, resulting inwithdrawal symptomsafter abrupt discontinuation or a significant dosage reduction of a drug. Withdrawal also may be precipitated through the administration of drugs with opi...
MS occurs when the body's own immune system attacks the central nervous system, damaging the protective sheath around nerve fibers called myelin. This disrupts signals to and from the brain, causing a variety of symptoms that impede the senses and impact the ability to move. ...