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The symptoms feel like a brain tumor, relentless headaches, vision disturbances, and pulsating noise in the ears. But when imaging comes back clear, patients are often left confused and undertreated. The condition has a name, a defined mechanism, and effective treatment. Here’s what you need to know. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a condition in which…

There is a particular kind of terror in waking up with one side of your body not responding. The arm feels heavy. Speech comes out wrong. Vision has gone strange at the edges. For someone who has never experienced this before, the instinct is immediate: this is a stroke. Call 911. Sometimes that instinct is…

A hard hit during a weekend soccer game. A rear-end collision on the freeway. A bad fall from a ladder. In each case, initial evaluation shows nothing structurally alarming, and patients are told to rest and expect to feel better within a week or two. For most people, that timeline holds. But for a significant…

A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is frightening enough on its own. What makes it worse is the layer of misinformation most people encounter before they ever speak to a neurologist – stories of rapid decline, wheelchairs, and lives cut short. Much of what circulates about MS is simply wrong. And wrong information, believed long enough,…