Tingling. Burning. A numbness that won’t go away, even though nothing’s touching your skin. Sound familiar? You’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone. This is neuropathy in the feet and legs: the nerves that carry signals between your brain and your lower body have taken damage, and they’re not doing their job the way…

Almost everyone has experienced that dull, aching pressure across the forehead or around the back of the head after a long, demanding day. When asked what a tension headache is, the simplest definition is that it is the most common form of primary headache, affecting millions of adults across the United States. Unlike migraines or…

Big life changes stir up a strange mix of excitement and dread, sometimes both at once. Finishing school, moving to a new city, hunting for a job – all of it puts real strain on the nervous system, and the body doesn’t always process that gracefully. One of the most common physical results is a…

Summer by the water is supposed to feel carefree. Unfortunately, it’s also the season when neurologists see some of the worst spinal injuries of the year, most of them tied to a single bad dive. There’s a stubborn myth that serious injury only happens from high dives, but that’s not true. A dive into water…

Some brain conditions develop slowly enough that a person barely notices. Others build over days or weeks and change everything about how someone thinks, feels, and behaves in that short window. Autoimmune encephalitis falls into the second category, and because its early symptoms so often look psychiatric rather than neurological, it’s frequently missed or misdiagnosed…

Neuropathy affects a lot of people, but the hereditary kind is a different animal. It’s a group of genetic conditions that gradually wear down the peripheral nerves, and the transmission of nerve signals slowly breaks down over time. The best-known form by far is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, usually just called CMT. Because it runs in families,…

Summer nights have a reputation for being relaxed – open windows, late dinners, an easy pace. For a lot of people, though, the reality looks different: tossing and turning, waking up at 3 am drenched in sweat, and dragging through the next day on fumes. Summer sleep problems can feel like a minor seasonal annoyance….

Every summer, Texas heat sends people to the ground. A construction worker slides down against his truck. A grandmother waiting in line goes pale and drops. A teenager mowing the lawn wakes up on the grass with no memory of falling. Most of the time, this is heat syncope, a brief fainting spell tied to…

You wake up, and something feels wrong. One side of your face isn’t moving quite right. You try to smile in the bathroom mirror, and the corner of your mouth doesn’t follow. You try to raise an eyebrow, and it stays put. You blink and realize your eye isn’t closing all the way. That moment…

For a lot of families, summer means one thing on repeat: training, tournaments, sports camps. The fields and gyms fill up, the schedule gets packed, and the energy is contagious. But there’s a flip side most people don’t talk about enough: summer is also when concussion recovery becomes one of the most urgent issues we…