Alzheimer ’s disease is the most prevalent, distressing form of dementia wherein the affected person mostly the elderly age bracket, face difficulty in recollection, judging and thought process that hinders routine functioning in life. As the disease progresses memory failure along with other symptoms become evident. Though certain medications provide respite to many individuals, there is no cure in this type of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is summarised into three categories: The Early onset – an atypical type affecting lesser than 10% cases, in those below the age of 65. It is a form of untimely aging wherein persons with Down’s syndrome are at greater risk of getting it with an age bracket of 40 onwards to early years of 50 becoming symptomatic. The Late onset – also  [...]

Bipolar disorder is a grave, multifarious illness causing intense mood alterations ranging from feeling depressed to mania which in many situations could lead to perilous behavioural patterns, even the contemplation of suicide. Affecting both sexes, it is usually seen in older aged teens, young adults, with even 6 year old children being affected. The Bipolar disorder is categorised into various kinds with every one of the types displaying occurrence of depressive tendencies and mania to a certain extent. In Bipolar I type, there is at least one occurrence of agitated episode of incoherent mood elevations in conjunction with atypical behaviour during the individual’s lifetime that causes major mayhem in their life. In Bipolar II type, quite alike bipolar I there are mood alterations,  [...]

Parkinson’s disease is a complex, progressive infirmity that has a debilitating affect on daily movements that occurs due to nerve cells breakdown in the brain. Parkinson’s disease has no cure and herbal treatments are unverified. There is on-going research on the use of stem cells for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s Disease Causes: Decreased levels of the neurotransmitter or brain chemical known as dopamine due to deterioration and breakdown of the substantia nigra part of the brain that plays a crucial role in carrying out movement, leads to the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The precise cause of the disease is still nebulous, though a detailed research is still underway regarding the correlation between Parkinson’s disease and factors like genetic predisposition,  [...]

Migraine is a debilitating condition that quite often could commence at infanthood and include signs like pulsating, gnawing pain in the forehead, temple area, feeling nauseous and becoming overtly sensitive to light. Such affected individuals face these niggling symptoms for as many as fifteen days in a month, with many not responding favourably to pain relieving medicines that have side-effects of drowsiness among others. However, a rather novel form of migraine treatment has surfaced that employs the surgery that is normally used for forehead lift. This astonishing discovery is the outcome of an extensive study undertaken by Plastic surgeon, Bahman Guyuron from the Case Western Reserve University. Guyuron has successfully treated four hundred plus patients for more than ten years using  [...]

The widely prevalent headaches are known to have a major effect on four among five of U.S citizens during any given instance. However, hemiplegic migraine is considered to be an atypical form of migraine and also amongst the grave and significantly incapacitating forms of migraine headaches. There are varied forms of migraine with the chief group being known as migraine with aura whose sub-type is hemiplegic migraine. Migraine is a composite, neurological disarray normally comprising of headaches though not most of the times. Prior to the real migraine headache pain, the affected individual could experience an array of symptoms that are precursors to the migraine known as auras, inclusive of transitory disorder in functioning of more than one of either vision, control over muscles, speech  [...]