A global health crisis, Alzheimer’s has kept the entire medical fraternity on its toes. While research agencies are diligently working towards finding a cure for this mental disorder, the patient community is looking for every possible help to take preventive measures and undergo effective treatment. Alzheimer’s: As we know it today A common type of…
Bipolar disorder is a psychological disorder characterized by periods of mania or depression (or both). Because of its nature, the disorder is often at risk of misdiagnosis, since no specific pathological tests exist to determine the disorder in individuals. Diagnosis is done based on criteria from the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
According to the WHO, epilepsy affects more than 50 million people worldwide, and six million of these people live in Europe. 15 million Europeans will have at least one seizure at some point in their lives but even with these staggering figures, in some European countries, epilepsy is not recognized as a brain disorder and…
According to a Center for Diease Control fact sheet, one in every 10 individuals in the US is affected by depression. Depression is debilitating, but the way we think about and understand depression is changing for the better. Where it was once thought to simply be a chemical imbalance in the brain, now doctors and…
What are Neurodegenerative Diseases? According to the EU JPND, neurodegenerative diseases are a group of disorders that cause progressive degeneration of the neurons in the brain. These incurable disorders are genetically inherited or of unknown etiology and have severe debilitating effects causing ataxia and dementia in people and having a serious impact on their mental…
