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June brings longer days, hotter temperatures, and for roughly 39 million Americans who live with migraine, a month that draws national attention to their condition. Migraine Awareness Month lands precisely during the season that tends to make attacks more frequent and harder to manage, and that timing is worth taking seriously. Heat, intense sunlight, dehydration,…

Tingling or numbness in the hands after a workout is something most people brush off as a normal part of training. And honestly, in many cases, that assumption is correct. A short-lived pins-and-needles sensation that fades within a few minutes usually isn’t cause for concern. But tingling hands after workouts can also be the first…

For most people, summer heat means sunscreen and cold drinks. For patients living with neurological conditions, it means actively managing a physiological threat. High temperatures trigger a cascade of changes in the body, including fluid loss, electrolyte depletion, and shifts in blood distribution, that can directly affect nervous system function. The result is that symptoms…

Every June 21, the neurology community marks World ALS Awareness Day, a date that serves as a collective reminder that Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a condition where timing genuinely matters. Early recognition of symptoms, timely referral to a specialist, and access to multidisciplinary care all lead to meaningfully better outcomes than delayed diagnosis, and the…

Summer travel can be highly enjoyable and completely safe for individuals living with epilepsy. A neurological condition should never limit your life or recreation, but it does require more careful planning. Successful summer travel with epilepsy does not require you to abandon your plans, but it demands a thoughtful, structured approach. Everyone should focus on…

When most people imagine a seizure, they picture someone falling and convulsing. Temporal lobe epilepsy rarely looks like that, particularly not at first. It is the most common form of focal epilepsy in adults, originating in the temporal lobes, the brain regions responsible for memory consolidation, emotional processing, and language. Seizures arising from this area…

A typical seizure lasts between 30 seconds and two minutes and resolves without intervention. When it doesn’t, the clinical situation changes fundamentally. Status epilepticus is defined as a seizure lasting five minutes or longer, or a series of seizures between which the patient does not return to their baseline level of consciousness. At that threshold,…

Some patients arrive at a neurologist’s office having been told by multiple prior providers that their episodes are “not real” or that nothing is neurologically wrong. In most cases, the truth is more nuanced and more treatable: psychogenic nonepileptic seizures are genuine neurological events that look like epilepsy, feel like epilepsy, and are frightening in…

Every summer, someone collapses at a backyard barbecue or a parking lot, and the people around them freeze, not from fear, but from genuine uncertainty. Is it the heat? Is it a stroke? It looks the same in the first seconds, and those seconds matter more than most people realize. Understanding heat stroke vs stroke…

When weakness starts in the feet and gradually spreads upward over days, the clinical picture is often unmistakable to a neurologist even before specialized testing is complete. Guillain-Barré Syndrome is a serious autoimmune condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nervous system, producing muscle weakness that can progress from mild leg heaviness…