Neurology Diagnostics

Archive for 2010

The “headache associated with sexual activity” is a disease that affects 1% of people at some point in their lives. In it, 75% are young men. The importance of treatment.

In some cases, to initiate actions leading to sexual intercourse or, worse, at the right time of orgasm appears inappropriate, severe headache that surprises and frightens the person who has it. It’s called “headache associated with sexual activity.”

This is not a very common ailment. According to several international surveys, there is only 1% of people at some time in their lives, predominantly in young men but also can get them, to a lesser extent, adolescents or women. And not only appears to keep sex with a partner, you can also surprise you masturbate alone. Read the rest of this entry »

It is an “invisible injury” but no less painful. Besides the loss of one of our five senses, hearing loss also implies serious difficulties for us to interact and understand others.

This condition in our listening skills increases with age and can become irreversible. But with the noise pollution today, young people are at high risk: high music to expose their ears is one reason why your hearing is increasingly damaged.

To protect the health of your ears, heed the following advice.

Avoid loud noises. Whenever you can, tries to get away from them. Close your car windows when driving, do not stand next to the speakers at a concert or in clubs and out for lunch in those restaurants where you can converse without raising your voice. Read the rest of this entry »

Hormonal disorders, poor nutrition, certain medications and stress are some of the reasons they do lose their hair.

Often there is no reason for concern, only call if you fall 100 or more hairs per day.

Why is hair loss?

The mechanical reason is for example the hairstyle. Ponytails for example cause the hair to press too hard. In these cases just a simple change in hairstyle.

When the hair falls out during or after a disease is often due to high body temperature, as well as toxic factors and nutritional deficiencies. Hair loss usually occurs within two to four months after the fever goes away and returns to grow at their own pace.

Systemic diseases can also cause baldness, such as lupus, hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. The treatment for hair loss in these cases is strictly connected to the treatment of disease.

Baldness can also be generated as the immunosuppressive drug used in cancer treatment in dermatology or against some cases of psoriasis or systemic connective tissue diseases among others. Hair loss begins around the third week after administering the drug. When you stop taking the medicine, the hair grows back. Read the rest of this entry »

For those who are struggling to remove cellulite from their bodies, anti cellulite creams are very familiar for them to use. There are countless cellulite creams that they can find both through the online and traditional shops. However, not every product will work well. People should thus select the best products based on the ingredients. The efficacy of cellulite creams are determined by the ingredients and chemical content on the products.

Therefore, people must not see certain products of cellulite cream only from the ads. Some cellulite creams are formulated with excellent ingredients that are effective for fighting cellulite. Some more cellulite creams only contain moisturizer that is ineffective to remove cellulite.

It is aminophylline, the ingredient that will be helpful to reduce cellulite. Aminophylline will be able to break fat cells and change ones into fatty acids. That will give significant results for removing cellulite as the fat cells removed include the cells that form cellulite. Smooth skin without lump will soon be gained with the help of aminophylline.

Therefore, cellulite treatment of massage with cellulite cream will be one treatment that people should optimize to get rid of cellulite. In addition, people can also make use cellulite creams with alpha hydroxy acids or AHAs to get positive effect of cellulite treatment with cream. People can easily find high quality cellulite creams through online sites.

All research points to the same effect. Fun activities such as completing puzzles, crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may delay the first signs of dementia. A new study published in Neurology has discovered a surprising fact. It concluded that in those cases in which dementia occurs later, the progression seems to be faster.

As explained by the principal author of this work, Robert Wilson, “Our results suggest that the benefit of delaying the signs of cognitive decline could lead to more rapid evolution of dementia in later years, but the question is why this happens.” Read the rest of this entry »

There are so many alternatives of diets that existed in the market, those are like diet plans, diet programs or diet supplements. Those are so many options that can make people bewildered and hard to select just one that can suits to them. In reality, many customer reviews mention that certain kinds of diet are not working at all. They just feel that hungry and exhausted sensation, but it’s hardly to lose their weight.

Among many options of diet, the HCG Diet is worth to try. This one seems to be different. Because this diet formula is not only promising to lose your weight by burning the unwanted fat but also to help your body to boost the metabolism. HCG principle will work is like this. Right after you consume this HCG recipe, which is a hormone, it will directly interact with hypothalamus. Then they will cooperate to destruct the abnormal fat that ruin the body figure and could potentially danger the life. Because too many bad fats in body give difficulties for blood to circulate, spoil body metabolism and give other bad side effect to the organs.

Therefore, if your are struggling with your weight all these time by trying unsuccessful diet plans or supplements, so stop it now and just trust this HCG formula. You will get more benefits for your body and health.

The latest research shows that mental activity changes the brain and leads to what is known as “Wisdom.”

These latest findings are part of what is known:

Neuroplasticity.

For many years it was believed that after a certain age, the provision of neurons and are not renewable.

Recent research in neuroscience shows that the brain can be regenerated through use and promotion.
The key to this is called: “Neuroplasticity“, which is shaping the mind, brain, through the activity.

“The brain changes shape, according to the areas that we use, as mental activity.”

In March 2000, researchers at the University of London, found that taxi drivers in that city, were part of the brain, the hippocampus-region important for spatial memory, “particularly developed, much more than other people.
Taxi drivers developed over the area because exercising more, every day memorizing streets and roads.
In these men and women, their ability to memorize streets and roads not waned but increased with age.
In 2002 German scientists found the same findings in the Heschl gyrus of musicians, cerebral cortex area important for processing music … Read the rest of this entry »

The finding allows us to understand how memories are stored and how they change over time.

One study suggests that it is possible to identify the specific memory that a person is recovering from last episode, only on the pattern of brain activity. The results of work carried out by University College London, UK, published in the online edition of the journal Current Biology.

Explains Eleanor Maguire, head of the study, “we have observed brain activity in search of a specific episodic memory, and examine the trace of real memory. We found that our memories are represented permanently in the hippocampus. Now we’ve seen where they are we have a chance to understand how memories are stored and how they might change over time. “

The results are a continuation of an earlier discovery of the scientific team, which showed that one could identify where he was a person inside a virtual reality room in the same way.

The researchers showed ten people one of three very short films before a brain scan. Each film was played by a different actress and a daily scenario quite similar. For example, in one of the shorter a woman looking in her purse to find an envelope in a mailbox and threw in another one of them a different actress ended her coffee cup and threw in a trash empty.

The scientists scanned the brains of participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while calling on those who remember the movie, and then included the image data in a computer log designed to identify patterns of brain activity, memories associated with every film.

Finally, the authors showed that these patterns could be identified in separate fMRI data to predict exactly what movie I was thinking about a particular person when he passed through the scanner. Read the rest of this entry »

Some are very handsome, others not so and there’s plenty. But they all have one thing in common: when they look in the mirror, the image that it brings back is of someone ugly and deformed. They are people with body dimorphic disorder, a psychiatric condition that affects an estimated 1% to 2% of the population. A study just to verify that the brains of these individuals react differently to the contemplation of his own face.

Examples of images used in the study. (Photo: Archives of General Psychiatry) Know exactly what happens in the minds of those who suffer the condition is vital to help them move forward and leave behind the anxiety generated by their appearance. Many are unable to lead a normal, half requiring hospitalization at some point in their lives and about 25% attempt suicide.

Research published in the latest issue of Archives of General Psychiatry compared the brain areas were activated in 17 affected and 16 other healthy while viewing a photograph of themselves and another for a famous actor.

To tune a bit more on analysis of visual processing, scientists, University of California (United States) – Digital images were shown in three different resolutions: standard, in a format that highlights the details (spots, profile of the nose and eyes, hair) or a configuration in which only perceived the spatial relationship between different parts of the face and shape of it.

The medical imaging technique used was the fMRI, which allows observing in real time what brain areas are activated by performing a particular activity.

When individuals with body dimorphic disorder looked at his face, there was a hyper activation of brain structures related to the specific visual processing. This does not happen if they looked the picture of famous actor and healthy people do not happen or your own image or that of the celebrities. Read the rest of this entry »

Oily skin could make women with dry skin jealous. While the women with the dry skin struggle to have moist skin for a younger look, women with oily skin simply have to bring blotting paper to absorb extra oil from their face. If only the women with dry skin know that extra oil is not just about having enough blotting paper, they will not be that jealous. People with oily skin have their own problems. What are those? How the water based cream could be so crucial for them?

Oily skin tends to have more comedo compared to normal skin and dry skin. The comedo is the black head covering the pore or the white caps on the pore. It is simply the reason of uneven skin and the cause of unsmooth skin of the oily skin people. Facial will help to remove it with a little bit pain when it is extracted with sterilized cosmetic tools, but the daily treatment to exfoliate the upper layer of the skin should be done as well. The problem of the wrinkle cream is it could make the comedo worse if you choose the wrong cream.

The best anti wrinkle cream should not make the skin look oily. It should be water based or has mild moisturizer which fast absorbed by the skin. Cream based treatment is not suggested. Read well the label, and ask in details to the beauty consultant before you buy one.