Posts Tagged ‘Differential Diagnosis’

Diagnosing Spells: Fits, Faints, and More

Spells. Things that go bump in the night. Such events are medical mysteries in need of solving. As a consulting neurologist, I’ve learned that part of my job is to be a “phenomenologist.” To explain, if possible, the unexplained. To puzzle out mystery-symptoms and odd phenomena.
And one of the hardest [...]

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 101

Introduction
This is a type of mental disorder, which occurs primarily in school-aged children but can also be diagnosed for the first time in the late teens esp., if some of its symptoms are left unnoticed. It was once falsely thought that after puberty the children don?t need treatment.
These types of children are given [...]

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