Ace The Neurophysiology Exam

Brachial Plexus injuries, or brachial plexopathies, are considered among the most devastating of neurological injuries. Numerous mechanisms of inju ...

Dementia is a general term that refers to a decline in cognitive ability severe enough to interfere with activities of daily living. Alzheimer's di ...

Epilepsy is a condition defined by the occurrence of two or more unprovoked seizures that happen at least 24 hours apart. These are typically assoc ...

The fibular nerve has been historically referred to as the peroneal nerve because the fibula can also be referred to as the perone. It has recently ...

Sleep is a reversible state of disconnection from the environment, including reduced consciousness, skeletal muscle mobility, and metabolism.

Cerebral palsy is a group of permanent disorders affecting the development of movement and causing a limitation of activity. Non-progressive d ...

Epilepsy affects about seventy million of the global population and is a chronic, debilitating condition,

Neoplastic plexopathy usually develops as a late-stage complication of cancer, typically when the tumor has locally or regionally progressed. Cervi ...

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a REM sleep parasomnia characterized by dream enactment during sleep.

Neurological evaluation of the neonate has many inherent limitations making it challenging to delineate physiological variation ...

Sleep is the natural periodic suspension of consciousness characterized by lessened consciousness and slowed metabolism. The sleep-wake cycle is on ...

Mollart and Goulon first coined the term 'coma depasse,' meaning a state beyond coma, for brain death.

Hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HypoKPP) is a rare disorder characterized by the occurrence of episodic severe muscle weakness, usually triggered b ...

Over one-quarter of United States citizens suffer from chronic pain. It is among the most co ...

As survival rates of the critically ill increase with the advancement of modern medicine, the incidence of neuromuscular disturbances in these pati ...

Brachial neuritis, also called neuralgic amyotrophy, has two major clinical symptoms, pain and muscle weakness from atrophy. It is a multifocal, im ...

During sleep, our body cycles through 4 different stages consisting of both rapid-eye-movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. The b ...

Electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the most important tools in the care of patients with epilepsy. EEG plays a significant role in the diagnosis& ...