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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…

An older parent starts shuffling instead of walking normally. Memory slips more than it used to. Bathroom trips get more frequent and harder to control. Families usually assume Alzheimer’s, and sometimes that’s right. But sometimes the real cause is normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH dementia, which looks a lot like Alzheimer’s from the outside but…

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,…

A lot of young people brush off strange symptoms as stress. A shaky hand, slurred words here and there, mood swings that seem to come out of nowhere; it’s easy to blame a busy schedule or a rough semester. But sometimes these are the earliest signs of a metabolic condition that actually needs medical attention,…

If you live with MS, summer isn’t just uncomfortable; it’s an active management challenge. A warm afternoon, a hot shower, a short walk in direct sunlight: any of these can tip your body temperature just enough to trigger a wave of symptoms that weren’t there an hour ago. For a lot of patients, this is…

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…

A new prescription for cholesterol, blood pressure, or a routine infection rarely comes with a warning that it might affect the brain. Yet drugs that affect the brain are far more common than most patients realize. Dizziness after starting a blood pressure medication, a fine tremor weeks into an antidepressant, or a fog that settles…

Think of exercise not as a supplement to Parkinson’s treatment; think of it as treatment itself. That’s not a motivational reframe; it’s what the research actually says. For people with Parkinson’s, movement is one of the most evidence-backed interventions available, with effects on symptom progression, mood, balance, and brain health that no pill fully replicates….