Tape worm in the brain. If you are a meat-eater who enjoys pork, you really need to be careful about ensuring that the meat is properly cooked. If not, then you are at risk of contracting neurocysticercosis, the tape worm infection of the brain that can be acquired by eating infected pork. Neurocysticercosis is a serious…
About 25% of patients with refractory epilepsy are misdiagnosed
Dissociative Seizures We have been seeing an increasing number of patients with dissociative seizures at Ormond Neuroscience. Curious about the epidemiology, I investigated and am startled by the figures! Approximately 20%-30% of patients who have been diagnosed with refractory epilepsy turn out to have been misdiagnosed and do not have epilepsy at all. Instead, these…
Web site progress
The website for Ormond Neuroscience is slowly coming together. There are still things to do, but it is usable at this point. Whoopee!
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