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Night terror This condition is rare and is related to sleep-walking. Sleeping young children may suddenly scream hysterically at the top of their voices as if they have seen something horrible. Their parents rush to their bedside and try to comfort them. These children have their eyes wide open but are not aware of the [...]
Before the days of sleep laboratories, it was believed that sleep-walking, night terror, and children’s bed-wetting happened during dreaming. Nowadays, with the help of the sleep laboratories, we know that these related phenomena occur in the deep sleep stages of NREM sleep, and are not features of dreams at all. Sleep-walking Have you ever dreamed [...]
Orthodox treatment depends very much on the type of tumour, and its site. In an operation, a benign tumour is often easy to winkle out of its surrounding capsule. Once the tumour has been removed, the pressure on the brain tissue is reduced, and the brain can get back to working in its normal way [...]
After passing through the brain, used blood is collected in large veins lying directly on the inside of the skull. Sometimes, as a result of a minor head injury, these veins can snap or tear. When this happens, blood slowly leaks out between the two outermost coverings of the brain (the dura). This is called [...]
You can minimise the number of attacks you experience through carefully eliminating or minimising your trigger factors. However, we all live in a real world, and it’s just not possible to eliminate all your trigger factors entirely. There will always be those missed meals, the food inadvertently eaten, the” exam to be taken, the stress [...]