Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author. Born in Britain, and mostly educated there, he spent his career in the United States. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe...
John Stephenson: paediatric neurologist who found a major area of medical misdiagnosisIn 1978 the witty and erudite professor John Stephenson gave a name to unexplained syncope among young children: reflex anoxic seizures (RAS). This highlighted a major area of medical misdiagnosis. Up to 30% of ...
Another possibility, according to Seifi, is that Osborne hit his head and had a stroke. AsDiana Greene-Chandos, a neurologist at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, toldPreventionin 2015, prolonged, painful hiccups that come out of nowhere can be a sign of a stroke...
We are still friends with her and with one of the neurologists he began seeing then. John came home after that appointment with a set of papers that said something like, “You have a TBI if…” and listed a number of symptoms. John had nearly all of them. Both of us had this ah...
I attended a conference that included presentations by dementia experts. One neurologist, whose name I have forgotten, said something that stayed with me. He said that often people attribute nearly every negative behavior of a person with dementia to their condition. The neurologist said that it ...
syndromes as some kind of deficits, since neurologists and scientists who examine the nervous system, have developed a convenient way of organizing and categorizing their thoughts and remarks by using this notion; he will use the same concept to form the case studies in the first part of his ...
I’ve been on a fairly powerful medication amitriptyline. I went up to the maximum daily dose recommended by my neurologist, of 100mg a day. Then I gradually came off it. And all the familiar symptoms flooded back. So I went back on it again back up to 100mg a day, which is what...
We were lucky enough to all be there with her when it happened, so she wasn’t alone, and wasn’t in pain, which is all she and we wanted. I had started my master’s, but that’s on hold indefinitely. I may not even pick it up again in the future; who knows. It wasn’t ...
And I know that it’s not the same as my wholebody being in your private spaces, I’m quite aware that this interaction isbeing mediated through a strange combination of private, public, corporatespace... but we’ll get back to that. In the meantime, I believe it’s importantto note...
Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author. Born in Britain, and mostly educated there, he spent his career in the United States. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe...