“Infantile spasms are characterised by repetitive but often subtle movements such as jerking of the mid-section, dropping of ...

Spastic diplegia cerebral palsy (SDCP) is a form of cerebral palsy that causes muscle stiffness and spasms in a person’s legs and, sometimes, arms. This is due to damage to the motor cortex of the ...

In 2003, Medtronic first received a humanitarian green light from the FDA to offer its deep brain stimulation implants to ...

A vasospasm is when one of the arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood throughout your body suddenly contracts. (The word "vaso" means vessel, and "spasm" is a sudden, involuntary muscle squeeze.) This ...

Opisthotonos is the term that describes an abnormal posture that happens when the muscles in your neck, back, and legs spasm and contract. These contractions cause your body to bend backward into a ...

(Reuters) - An early magazine advertisement for Merck’s breakthrough asthma and allergy medicine, Singulair, featured a happy child, hanging upside-down from a tree. Asthmatic kids could now breathe ...

To physicians talking among themselves, anything that suddenly goes wrong with the blood vessels in the brain is a “C.V.A.”—cerebral vascular accident. To physicians talking with patients or other ...

Gadol, recipient of neurosurgery's highest honor and founder of the globally recognized Neurosurgical Atlas, announces the opening of ATLAS Institute of Brain & Spine in Los Angeles. The new practice ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a lifelong congenital condition that causes palsy, or impaired movements, due to brain damage at a very young age. Spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy (SQCP) is a severe type ...