The medical condition known as kernicterus (nuclear jaundice) is caused by excessive staining and damage to certain parts of the brain, particularly the basal ganglia (the nerve center at the base of the brain), the bilirubin, a bile pigment. An amount of jaundice sufficient to cause damage usually appears during the first week of life, ...
Controlling muscle activities throughout the body is one of the functions of the human nervous system. When parts of the spinal cord and the brain (the two major organs of the nervous system) concerned with muscle activity become diseased, the action of the muscles correspondingly become radically different. This same result occurs when nerve connections ...
If your twitching tongue is driving you mad with anxiety and fear of bulbar onset ALS,then you need to know how to rule out bulbar onset ALS, which is diagnosed in only about 600 people every year in the U.S. However, for some panicky individuals, this number is no reassurance if their tongue is twitching, ...
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is commonly known to American’s as “Lorenzo’s Oil Disease”, named after an 1993 Oscar nominated film starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte. It is based on a family’s experience with the disease. Adrenoleukodystrophy is in a group of genetic disorders that are called the leukodystrophies. These genetic disorders cause damage to the myelin ...
