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Article by Jeremy Smith

Neurology is the study of the nervous system within the brain, nerves, and spinal cord. Neurologists can diagnose and treat many disorders using neurological exams which may include testing of nerves in the head and neck, memory, speech, balance and reflexes, and many other cognitive abilities. Abnormalities in the nervous system can lead to complications such as pain, seizures, poor coordination, muscle weakness, and paralysis if left untreated.

Brain damage is one of the most major neurological disorders that are treated by Cincinnati neurologists. When damage has occurred to the cerebral lobe, it can affect different areas of cognitive thinking. For instance, damage done to the frontal lobe may affect the ability to plan, analyze, and the individual may develop trouble with speech. Damage to the occipital lobe may affect sight and individuals with lesions may experience hallucinations. Individuals with parietal lobe damage may experience problems with spacing and coordination while those with damage to the temporal lobe may experience problems with sense and smell and may also find it hard to process stimuli such as particular scenes or faces. Read the rest of this entry »

Although all the diseases are not caused by bacteria or viruses but many develop because of our genes that is our genes are responsible for many acquired and acute diseases.Information about various diseases can be taken from medical application,medical animations and disease movies.

Let’s first understand what genetic disorders are.Environmental and genetic factors are responsible for the development of the disease.Genetic disorders are caused by abnormalities in an individual’s genetic material known as genome.The genetic disorders can be classified into four types.

• Single-gene• Multifactorial• Chromosomal• Mitochondrial Read the rest of this entry »

Sleep disorders are defined as any condition that regularly interferes with or disrupts our regular sleeping habits including our ability to fall asleep, stay asleep or stay awake. For millions of us, sleep disorders regularly interfere with a good night’s rest. Sleep is an important activity for our body. For many years, people thought of it as a passive activity but we now know that this is not true. When we are sleeping, there are a many things that are happening in our bodies. During sleep, we undergo several stages of non-REM sleep from 1 to 4 as well as REM sleep cycles. Generally NREM stages 1 and 2 are the beginning of sleep during which people are easily woken up. When later questioned they may not even believe they were in fact asleep. In NREM stage 3 and stage 4, commonly known as deep sleep, people need a lot more effort to wake up. It is during stages 3 and 4 that people usually are groggy when they awake and may need a few moments before they can get oriented to where they are. Read the rest of this entry »

There aren’t many positive words to say about eating disorders. If you’ve made it this far, you probably already know the truth: An eating disorder isn’t a thing to be trifled with, or brushed aside; an eating disorder can ruin your life, if you don’t take active steps to set yourself on the road to healing. Of course, that healing can’t come through willpower alone, and so it is that professional eating disorder treatment is the single most important point of focus for any eating disorder victim. The bottom line: If you’re going to get better, you’ve got to get help.And so there’s no mistake: It won’t be easy. Eating disorders are formidable obstacles, and eating disorder treatment is invariably hard. Those eating disorder treatment patients who get better, in the end, are the ones who commit themselves to the eating disorder healing process, and resolve to make eating disorder recovery work for them. Eating disorders, you might say, never die easy. If you’re going to beat yours, you’ve got to be ready for a fight.Which is precisely why the right eating disorder treatment program is so important, because you’re going to need all the help you can help. Read the rest of this entry »

The exact cause of an eating disorder is not always clear and the reasons are often quite complex and not always fully understood. Today a significant proportion of the world population suffer from thesedisorders. Almost 1 million males and 5-10 million females in the United States alone are estimated to be affected by eatingdisorders. The major eatingdisorders that are very common are Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Compulsive Overeating and Binge Eating Disorder. Though, among all the others, binge eatingdisorders are the most common eatingdisorders.

The most important symptoms that you may observe in an eating disorder are –

•    Obsession with weight
•    Constant complaining of weight problems
•    Dramatic weight loss in a relatively short period of time
•    Chronic dieting and visible food restrictions
•    Self-starvation and binging or purging
•    Vague or irregular eating patterns
•    Obsession with calories and fats in food Read the rest of this entry »