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Listen To Article Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive disease that gets over a period of time. The main target organ system of this disease is the nervous system, affecting the brain and the spinal cord causing loss of control of voluntary muscles. As the name suggests, […]

Listen To Article Nerve cells of neurons are the special cells of the nervous system which help to pass on the messages from one part of the body to the other.  The covering of neurons is called the myelin sheath which covers the nerve fibres and helps in communicating between the brain and the rest […]

Listen To Article Our mind controls every single action in our body. The brain uses our elaborate nervous system to control different functions our internal organs carry out. Problems like Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and Parkinson’s occur when the nervous system and the brain fail to function at their full capacity – resulting in loss of […]

Listen To Article Memories of the good times always bring a good sense of nostalgia. Imagine how upsetting it must be not to be able to remember close ones and the memories associated with them. That is precisely what happens in Alzheimer’s disease. Also referred to as senile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological […]

Listen To Article We have all seen patients of Schizophrenia only through the eyes of lenses in movies or read about it in books, but it mare more to it. It is one of the mental disorders that appear between the age groups of 16 to 30 approximately. This disorder develops so slowly that the […]

The scene of a classmate having seizures while in school still haunts me to the date. All of us have heard a lot about many superstitions associated with the occurrence of seizures but have we ever wondered what are seizures and why are they caused? As per the medical definition, a seizure is an abnormal […]