The physicians tracked 40 patients who came to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro between December 2015 and May 2016 for acute neuroinflammation. Among them, 35 turned out to have been infected with Zika, ...

Peripheral neuropathies are a collection of over 100 disorders that have a variety of symptoms caused by impaired nerves. Their clinical features range from mild to disabling and are rarely ...

New research estimates that nearly half of people globally are living with a condition like Alzheimer’s, stroke, or epilepsy. Reading time 3 minutes Our brains are in rougher shape than we might think ...

Researchers have deepened our understanding of two of the five members of the CDKL family of genes, CDKL2 and CDKL1. They show that variants in these genes can lead to neurodevelopmental conditions, ...

A neurological assessment is an evaluation of a person’s nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves that connect these areas to other parts of the body. A neurological exam ...

Gelastic cataplexy is a sudden loss of muscle tone without loss of consciousness triggered by laughter. It’s a characteristic sign of a rare genetic disease called Niemann Pick disease type C.

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