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Oral bacteria in Alzheimer’s brains. Recently, researchers were amazed to find a seven-fold increase in bacterial counts in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically, they found that the increase was mainly due to the presence of oral bacteria, the bugs that make up the microflora of the mouth.  A number of previous studies…

Finally, some decent quality research has been done into the use of cannabis to control epileptic seizures.  A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows a reduction in the frequency of convulsive seizures in kids suffering from Dravet syndrome.  This was a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled study, which is the standard requirement…

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…

The website for Ormond Neuroscience is slowly coming together. There are still things to do, but it is usable at this point. Whoopee!

I thought creating this web site would be done in a few days, but I’m still slugging away at it two weeks later.  It’s coming together, but sure is taking time.

A new web site is in the process of creation.  The old site was, well, old and very tired.  Frankly, it was terrible.  We’ve ditched everything and are using a new method entirely to create this site.  What you’re seeing now is the emerging skeleton of the site and is not the final product.  So,…