It is becoming clear that anti-inflammatory regimens benefit people with autoimmune diseases with the most successful ones, those that encompass life-style changes. One such multifaceted and holistic approach came from the personal experience of Dr. Terry Wahls. As a physician, she was struck with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that slowly advances towards a wheelchair.
The neurological complications of Lyme disease are caused worldwide by Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi), the vector of Lyme disease in North America. Central nervous system (CNS) manifestations result from involvement of the brain and spinal cord that presents as meningitis, encephalitis, and encephalopathy.
The field of social neuroscience is filling the gap between behavioral neuroscience and social psychology, employing experimental animal and human studies together with molecular and cellular approaches. For several decades, investigators have been exploring mechanisms of social affiliation that rely upon the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT).
We generally assume that brain development relates to cognitive development.
Neurologic hereditary metabolic disorders (NHMD), while difficult to recognize at birth, lead to unmistakable neurological symptoms and signs that become clinically evident in the neonatal period, through early and late infancy into childhood, each with a specific biochemical, molecular or cytogenetic defect, and unique genetic inheritance pattern.
The first stage in the journey of arriving at a correct diagnosis is to be in touch with your symptoms and to convey them accurately to the physicians you see. I recommend arriving to appointments with a written narrative of the temporal progression of symptoms replete with dates and recollections of when certain symptoms emerged and describe how they progressed over time.