Video games offer children and adults lots of stimuli – moving patterns, colors, flashing lights and they almost surely cause release of hormones that increase the heart rate and blood pressure. But what about the brain? Many of the video games kids play today overload their brain with stimuli – which leads to the question. ...
Grand Mal Seizure Epilepsy or seizure disorder, is a symptom of a brain dysfunction. When a seizure occurs, it’s like an electrical shortage in the brain. Everything goes haywire. However, a person must repeatedly have seizures to have it called by the terms epilepsy or seizure disorder What causes a seizure? Seizures arise when there ...
Statistically, it is believed that more than 750 children born each year, in the United States, are born with a genetic defect known as Down syndrome. Often diagnosed during pregnancy, parents of a Down syndrome child eagerly await the arrival of the infant, preparing for the life challenges, rewards and health complications. For a small ...
West Syndrome is an epileptic condition that typically presents in the first year of life, mostly between 4-8 months of age. The formal definition involves infantile spasms, developmental delay and hypsarrythmia, an abnormal brain electrical pattern, on brain EEG. Infantile spasms are sometimes subtle to parents, and other times very debilitating to infants. They manifest ...
Oh, that sweet taste in your mouth is maddening, isn’t it? Well, there are medical conditions that can cause you to experience a sweet taste in your mouth — which has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what you have been eating or drinking. I consulted with Jordan S. Josephson, MD, Ear, Nose and Throat ...