Articles, tagged with "blood vessels in the brain", page 3
24th January 2008
The biofeedback industry was born. Today several thousand certified biofeedback therapists teach the technique to tens of thousands of people with dozens of ailments. Thousands more people learn biofeedback themselves using small home devices and the inst...
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Author:
Raymond Lee
22nd January 2008
Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid surrounding your brain and spinal cord, usually due to the spread of an infection. Meningitis may develop in response to a number of causes, including infectious agents, physical injur...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
22nd October 2007
Multi-infarct dementia is often the result of a series of small strokes. Most common cause of vascular dementia is the blockage of small arteries supplying areas of the brain. In classical stroke, large blood vessels are blocked, resulting in the death of...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
13th September 2007
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia among older people. Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities. Approximately 24 million people worldwide are living with Alzheimer's. G...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
24th July 2007
Migraines are very painful headaches where the pain tends to be on one side of the head. They can be disabling and may severely disrupt the sufferer's life. The two main forms are migraine with aura and migraine without aura. Both types usually involve pa...
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Author:
Alien
04th April 2007
Slang--Speed, Meth, Crystal, Crank, Tweak, Go-fast, Ice, Glass, Uppers, Black BeautiesMethamphetamine affects your brain. In the short term, meth causes mind and mood changes such as anxiety, euphoria, and depression. Long-term effects can include chronic...
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Author:
Arthur Buchanan
28th February 2007
Almost everyone has had a headache at one point in his or her life. Headaches are of different types. In a migraine, throbbing pain is felt on one side of the head. The most important symptom you will probably have with your migraine headache is pain, and...
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Author:
Cindy
17th January 2007
Seasonale birth control pill has been approved by FDA. A new choice in oral contraceptive for woman for preventing of pregnancy. Seasonale s an extended- regimen birth control pill which means it is designed to extend the time between your expected menstr...
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Author:
olivia andrews
13th January 2007
Many people today tell you that they suffer from migraine. Actually, many of them don't really understand what migraine is. Some of them may only just have a headache and say that it is migraine already when it is not. Many of them don't really understand...
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Author:
harry b
18th November 2006
The stroke is the damaged part of the brain tissue as a result of loss in blood and oxygen. This can also be called as brain attack. This is a medical emergency if it is untreated then it leads to death. So it is one of the chronic diseases which shou...
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Author:
dr jack
17th November 2006
Menopause And Headache
This midlife phenomenon is known as menopause. This type of headache saps the energy out of you. At the end of the headache, you feel that you have been down with some sort of sickness for days together. You feel tired and exhaus...
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Author:
Kanishk manchanda
12th October 2006
The stroke is the damaged part of the brain tissue as a result of loss in blood and oxygen. This can also be called as brain attack. This is a medical emergency if it is untreated then it leads to death. So it is one of the chronic diseases which should...
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Author:
dr jack
25th July 2006
A bad headache can go a long way to completely ruining your day. Talking to people can be unbearable. You start to get irrirable, not wanting to work or play or do anything but sit in bed and maybe watch a movie. What can you do about these demon headache...
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Author:
Fanny Shiveley
25th June 2006
The World Health Organization has identified stroke as the third major killer disease of humans. More than 150,000 Americans die of stroke each year - a full one-third of all those who suffer stroke. Another 150,000 will be left with a severe disability t...
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Author:
Debra Augur
12th April 2006
Head and Brain Injuries
Head and Brain injuries such as concussions or traumatic brain injuries are dangerous because there is often an apparent absence of physical injury. These injuries are caused by trauma to the brain from the head striking another...
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Author:
Bridget B