A lumbar puncture is a medical procedure where a specially designed needle is inserted into the lower part of the spine to draw cerebro-spinal fluid for testing of several conditions affecting the brain, spinal cord or other parts of the nervous system. It does not involve any form of operation. The amount of cerebro-spinal fluid will not drop as it will continuously produced in the brain ...

Stuttering in adults occurs when the speech production occurs abnormally ...

What is Apraxia? Apraxia is a disorder of the brain and nervous system in which the individual is unable to move the mouth and tongue to make sounds properly, though: - They understand the requests and instructions They want to say the word They know how to pronounce the words ...

Introduction Migraine is one of the causes of recurrent, episodic headache. About 1 in 4 women, and 1 in 12 men, develop migraine at some point in their life. It usually starts in childhood or adolescence, and peaks in adolescence. Generally migraine becomes less common after 45-50 years old, though ...

Introduction Since ancient times, death is said to have occurred at the moment when all vital signs have stopped permanently. For many centuries, death was signalled by the loss of breathing and only after the stethoscope was invented in the early 19th century, did the cessation of a beating heart ...

Introduction Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells,or neurons, in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. In epilepsy the normal pattern of neuronal activity is disturbed and this causes strange sensations, behaviour, emotions or sometimes muscle spasms and loss of consciousness. Having a seizure does not mean ...

Introduction Brain tumour is an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells in the brain. Brain tumours can be divided into: Primary brain tumour - tumour originates from the brain Secondary brain tumour - tumour spread to the brain, from cancer at other part of the body, such as lung, breast, ...