Brain and nerves

Abetalipoproteinemia

Acamprosate for alcohol abuse and dependence

Acoustic Neuroma

Acyclovir for encephalitis

Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency

ADHD: Helping your child get the most out of school

ADHD: Helping your child get things done

Adie Syndrome

Adrenoleukodystrophy

Adult Brain Tumors Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Health Professional Information [NCI]

Adult Brain Tumors Treatment (PDQ®): Treatment - Patient Information [NCI]

Agenesis of Corpus Callosum

Agnosia, Primary Visual

Aicardi Syndrome

Alcohol problems: Helping someone get treatment

Alcohol problems: How to stop drinking

Alexander Disease

Alpers Disease

Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood

Altitude Sickness

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer's disease: Should I take medicines?

Amantadine for Parkinson's disease

Amputation for Diabetic Foot Problems

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Anemia, Hemolytic, Warm Antibody

Anencephaly

Angelman Syndrome

Angiogram of the Head and Neck

Aniridia Cerebellar Ataxia Mental Deficiency

Ankylosing Spondylitis

Antibiotics for bacterial meningitis

Anticholinergic agents for Parkinson's disease

Anticholinergic medicines for cerebral palsy

Anticholinergics for urinary incontinence in spinal cord injuries

Anticoagulants for stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA)

Anticonvulsants for cerebral palsy

Anticonvulsants for chronic pain

Anticonvulsants for restless legs syndrome

Antidepressant medicines used to treat OCD

Antidepressants for Migraine Headaches

Antiemetics (phenothiazines)

Antihistamines for vertigo

Antiplatelets for stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA)

Antipsychotics for child and teen bipolar disorder

Antipsychotics for the treatment of bipolar disorder

Antispasmodics (muscle relaxants) for cerebral palsy

Antivirals for shingles

Anxiety

Apnea, Infantile

Apnea, Sleep

Apraxia

Arachnoid Cysts

Arachnoiditis

Arnold-Chiari Malformation

Asperger's Syndrome

Asperger's Syndrome

Aspirin for stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA)

Astrocytoma

Astrocytoma, Malignant

Ataxia with Vitamin E Deficiency

Ataxia, Friedreich's

Ataxia, Hereditary, Autosomal Dominant

Atomoxetine (Strattera) for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Autism

Avoiding Mercury in Fish

Balo Disease

Batten Disease

Bell's Palsy

Bell's Palsy

Benign Essential Tremor

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)

Benzodiazepines for epilepsy

Benzodiazepines for panic disorder

Benzodiazepines for restless legs syndrome

Benzodiazepines for social anxiety disorder

Beta-blockers for migraine headaches

Binswanger's Disease

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder in Children and Teens

Bipolar disorder in children: Helping your child prevent manic episodes

Bipolar disorder: Preventing manic episodes

Blepharospasm, Benign Essential

Blood Alcohol

Borderline Personality Disorder

Brachial Plexus Palsy

Brain Aneurysm

Brain Tumors, General

Brandt-Daroff exercise for vertigo

Brown Sequard Syndrome

CADASIL

Calcium channel blockers for cluster headaches

Calcium channel blockers for migraine headaches

Canavan Disease

Cancer: Home Treatment for Sleep Problems

Capsaicin

Carbamazepine for epilepsy

Carnosinemia

Carotid endarterectomy for TIA and stroke

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Caudal Regression Syndrome

Central Hypoventilation Syndrome, Congenital

Cerebellar Agenesis

Cerebellar Degeneration, Subacute

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis

Cervical Spinal Stenosis

Charcot Marie Tooth Disease

Chorea, Sydenham's

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic fatigue syndrome: Using cognitive-behavioral therapy

Chronic fatigue syndrome: Using graded exercise to get more energy

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy

Clozapine for schizophrenia

Cluster Headaches

Cochlear Implants

Coffin Siris Syndrome

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for eating disorders

Cognitive-behavioral therapy for pain management

Computed Tomography (CT) Scan of the Spine

COMT inhibitors for Parkinson's disease

Concussion

Confusion, Memory Loss, and Altered Alertness

Corticobasal Degeneration

Corticosteroids for carpal tunnel syndrome

Corticosteroids for multiple sclerosis

Corticosteroids for shingles

Counseling for PTSD

Cranial Ultrasound

Craniometaphyseal Dysplasia

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

Cysticercosis

Cytomegalovirus Infection

Dandy Walker Malformation

De Santis Cacchione Syndrome

Deciding to Get Treatment for PTSD

Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease

Degenerative Disc Disease

Dejerine Sottas Disease

Dementia

Depersonalization Disorder

Depression in Children and Teens

Depression: Dealing with medicine side effects

Depression: Helping someone get treatment

Depression: Managing postpartum depression

Depression: Should I stop taking my antidepressant?

Depression: Should I take an antidepressant?

Depression: Supporting someone who is depressed

Depression: Taking antidepressants safely

Diabetic Neuropathy

Diencephalic Syndrome

Dix-Hallpike test for vertigo

Dopamine agonists for Parkinson's disease

Dopamine precursors and agonists for restless legs syndrome

Dravet Syndrome

Dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dysthymia

Dystonia

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Electromyogram (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Studies

Electronystagmogram (ENG)

Electronystagmogram for vertigo

Empty Sella Syndrome

Encephalitis

Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex

Encephalitis, Japanese

Encephalitis, Rasmussen's

Endoscopic carpal tunnel surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome

Eosinophilia Myalgia

Epidural steroid injections for lumbar spinal stenosis

Epilepsy

Epilepsy

Epilepsy Medication Therapy Failure

Epilepsy: Taking your medicines properly

Ergotamines for cluster headaches

Ergotamines for migraine headaches

Erythrokeratodermia with Ataxia

Ethosuximide for epilepsy

Evaluation and Treatment After a First Seizure

Evoked potential test for multiple sclerosis

Fainting

Familial Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification

Fear and Anger in PTSD

Feeling Depressed

Felbamate for epilepsy

Fetal Valproate Syndrome

First Fever Seizure in a Child

First-generation antipsychotics for treating schizophrenia

Floating Harbor Syndrome

Fontanelles and Sutures of the Infant Skull

Frey's Syndrome

Gabapentin for epilepsy

Gait analysis for cerebral palsy

Gastroparesis

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Gerstmann Syndrome

Giant Axonal Neuropathy

Glatiramer for multiple sclerosis

Glioblastoma Multiforme

Grief and PTSD

Grief: Coping with grief

Guillain Barre Syndrome

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Headache, Cluster

Headaches: Identifying and avoiding triggers

Headaches: Managing a headache

Headaches: Should I take medicine to prevent migraines?

Headaches: Should I take prescription medicine for tension headaches?

Hearing Aids

Heart attack: Should I take daily aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke?

Heavy Sweating

Helping a Family Member Who Has PTSD

Helping a Person During a Seizure

Hemimegalencephaly

Hiccups, Chronic

High-flow oxygen inhalation therapy for cluster headaches

Holoprosencephaly

HTLV Type I and Type II

Human HOXA1 Syndromes

Huntington's Disease

Huntington's Disease Genetic Test

Hydranencephaly

Hyperexplexia

Hyperhidrosis, Primary

Injectable antispasmodic medicines for cerebral palsy

Insomnia

Insomnia: Improving your sleep

Insomnia: Should I take sleeping pills?

Interactive Tool: Are You Depressed?

Interactive Tool: Do You Have a Drinking Problem?

Interactive Tool: What Is Your Risk for a Stroke if You Have Atrial Fibrillation?

Interferon beta for multiple sclerosis

Joubert Syndrome

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

Kearns Sayre Syndrome

Kernicterus

Kernicterus

Ketogenic diet for epilepsy

Kleine-Levin Syndrome

Klüver-Bucy Syndrome

Kugelberg Welander Syndrome

L1 Syndrome

Lamotrigine for epilepsy

Landau Kleffner Syndrome

Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

Leigh's Disease

Lennox Gastaut Syndrome

Leprosy

Leptospirosis

Leukodystrophy

Leukodystrophy, Metachromatic

Levetiracetam for epilepsy

Levodopa medicines for Parkinson's disease

Lissencephaly

Lithium for cluster headaches

Living With a Spinal Cord Injury

Locked In Syndrome

Low-Dose Aspirin Therapy

Lumbar Puncture

Machado-Joseph Disease

Mad Cow Disease

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the Head

Mal de Debarquement

Manic Depression, Bipolar

MAO-B inhibitors for Parkinson's disease

Medulloblastoma

Meige Syndrome

Melkersson Rosenthal Syndrome

Memantine for Alzheimer's disease

Ménière's Disease

Meningioma

Meningitis

Meningitis

Meningitis, Bacterial

Meningitis, Meningococcal

Meningitis, Tuberculous

Mental Health Assessment

Mental Health Problems and Stigma

MERRF Syndrome

Microvascular Diabetes Complications

Migraine Headaches

Migraines: Identifying and avoiding triggers

Mild, Moderate, and Severe Vertigo

Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalopathy

Mitoxantrone for multiple sclerosis

Moebius Syndrome

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) for depression

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) for panic disorder

Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) for social anxiety disorder

Mood stabilizers for child and teen bipolar disorder

Mood-stabilizing medicines for bipolar disorder

Morton's Neuroma

Motion Sickness

Motor Neuron Disease

Mountain Sickness, Acute

Moyamoya Syndrome

Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Multiple sclerosis: Rehabilitation programs

Multiple sclerosis: Should I start taking medicines for MS?

Multiple System Atrophy

Myasthenia Gravis

Myelogram

Myoclonus, General

Myotonia Congenita

Narcolepsy

Nervous System Problems

Neurasthenia

Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Type 1

Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1)

Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2)

Neurological examination for multiple sclerosis

Neuromyotonia

Neuropathy, Ataxia and Retinitis Pigmentosa

Neuropathy, Congenital Hypomyelination

Neuropathy, Hereditary Sensory, Type I

Neuropathy, Hereditary Sensory, Type II

Neuropathy, Hereditary Sensory, Type IV

Neuropathy, Peripheral

Neurotransplantation for Parkinson's disease

Nonepileptic Seizures (NES)

Norrie Disease

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Should I take medicine for OCD?

Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy

Open carpal tunnel surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome

Opioid analgesics for chronic pain

Opioids for restless legs syndrome

Opioids for spinal stenosis

Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome

Organic Personality Syndrome

Orthopedic surgery for cerebral palsy

Other antidepressants for depression

Other Types of Counseling for PTSD

Oxcarbazepine for epilepsy

Pallidotomy (posteroventral pallidotomy) for Parkinson's disease

Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder

Panic disorder: Should I take medicine?

Papillitis

Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes

Paraplegia, Hereditary Spastic

Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's Disease

Parsonage Turner Syndrome

Pelizaeus Merzbacher Brain Sclerosis

Periodic Limb Movement Disorder

Perisylvian Syndrome, Congenital Bilateral

Phantom Limb Pain and Chronic Pain

Phenobarbital for epilepsy

Phenytoin for epilepsy

Physical exam for carpal tunnel syndrome

Pick disease

Pinched Nerve In or Near the Elbow

Pineal Cysts, Symptomatic

POEMS Syndrome

Polyglucosan Body Disease, Adult

Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia

Porphyria

Post Polio Syndrome

Post-Polio Syndrome

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Prazosin for PTSD

Pregnancy and Epilepsy

Prescription sleep medicines

Primary Lateral Sclerosis

Primary Orthostatic Tremor

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Pseudotumor Cerebri

PTSD and Depression

PTSD and Negative Coping

PTSD and Panic Attacks

PTSD and Physical Health Problems

PTSD and Suicide

PTSD and Your Family

Pudendal Neuralgia

Pyridoxine-Dependent Seizures

Questions About Medications for Epilepsy

Rabies

Rabies

Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Pain

Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome

Refsum Disease

Restless Legs Syndrome

Restless Legs Syndrome

Rett Syndrome

Returning to Play After a Head Injury During a Sporting Event

Reye Syndrome

Rheumatic Fever

Ringing in the Ears (Tinnitus)

RLS: Getting more sleep

Roussy Levy Syndrome

Santavuori Disease

Schizophrenia

Sciatica

Scopolamine (Transderm-Scop) for vertigo

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Seasonal affective disorder: Using light therapy

Second-generation antipsychotics for treating schizophrenia

Sedatives for vertigo

Seizure medicine to prevent migraine headaches

Seizures

Selective dorsal rhizotomy

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depression

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depression in children and teens

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for PTSD

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for depression and pain after a stroke

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for panic disorder

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for social anxiety disorder

Self-Test for Breath Alcohol

Semont and Epley maneuvers for vertigo

Sensory Integration Dysfunction

Serotonin antagonists (5-HT3 receptor antagonists)

Shift Work Sleep Disorder

Shingles

Simian B Virus Infection

Skull Fracture

Sleep and Your Body Clock

Sleep Problems, Age 12 and Older

Sleep problems: Dealing with jet lag

Sneddon Syndrome

Social Anxiety Disorder

Spina Bifida

Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Spinocerebellar Ataxia with Axonal Neuropathy

Stenosis, Spinal

Stiff Person Syndrome

Stopping Medicine for Epilepsy

Streptococcus, Group B

Stress Management

Stress Relief and Relaxation

Stroke

Stroke recovery: Coping with eating problems

Stroke Rehabilitation

Stroke Symptoms

Stroke: Should I move my loved one into long-term care?

Stuttering

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis

Substance abuse: Dealing with teen substance use

Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency

Suicidal Thoughts or Threats

Susac's Syndrome

Symptoms of a Concussion in Children

Syringobulbia

Syringomyelia

Tardive Dyskinesia

Tarlov Cysts

Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome

Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Temporary Loss of Function

Tension Headaches

Tetanus

Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome

Thalamic Syndrome (Dejerine Roussy)

Thalamotomy for Parkinson's disease

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Tiagabine for epilepsy

Tips for Parents of Children With Epilepsy

Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) for stroke

Topiramate for epilepsy

Tourette Syndrome

Toxoplasmosis

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)

Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)

Transverse Myelitis

Tremor

Tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants for depression

Tricyclic antidepressants for chronic pain

Tricyclic antidepressants for panic disorder

Trigeminal Neuralgia (Tic Douloureux)

Triosephosphate Isomerase Deficiency

Triptans (serotonin receptor agonists) for migraine headaches

Triptans for cluster headaches

Turcot Syndrome

Typical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

VACTERL with Hydrocephalus

Vagus nerve stimulator for epilepsy

Valproate for epilepsy

Vascular Malformations of the Brain

Vertigo: Balance exercises

Vertigo: Staying safe when you have balance problems

Vestibular Neuritis

Vogt Koyanagi Harada Syndrome

War, Stress, and PTSD

Weakness and Fatigue

Werdnig Hoffman Disease

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome

West Nile Encephalitis

West Nile Virus

West Syndrome

When to Get Help for PTSD

Wrist care: Preventing carpal tunnel syndrome

Zonisamide for epilepsy

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