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 univers...
John Stephenson: paediatric neurologist who found a major area of medical misdiagnosisdoi:10.1136/bmj.q1485In 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 ...
then the primary care doctor starts nodding his or her head and says, I can help these patients. And things are different. That it's a very common syndrome in 5 or 6% of America. And they're not being helped by we neurologists or rheumatologists as much as the primary care doctor. ...
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 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 ...
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’ve had 3) I contracted in April 2020. A few weeks after that infection, I developed what is called Peripheral Neuropathy in my feet. I spent two years trying to get answers from doctors before finally going to a private neurologist, having numerous scans on my brain and spine to ...
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 ...
I am trying really, really hard to BE PATIENT. To breathe deeply in and out and wait for healing. To sit on the couch and rest when I want to be riding my bike. To let the house be just a house for a while because, really, it isn’t going anywhere. If this is my new normal...
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 univers...