LEARNING DIFFICULTIES: WHAT THE NEUROLOGIST NEEDS TO KNOW

Learning difficulties: what the neurologist needs to know.

Learning difficulties have a very significant effect on individuals and on society. The affected individual will have difficulties in thinking, acquisition, and processing of new information and knowledge. As a result of these difficulties many individuals require additional care, education, and medical services. In some cases affected individuals will never achieve personal independence and th...

Neurotoxicology: what the neurologist needs to know.

Correspondence to: Professor John B Harris, Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, Health Protection Agency, Wolfson Unit, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA; [email protected] _________________________ A search of internet sites offering detoxification programmes for the elimination of toxins from the body and the regeneration or rejuvenation of the immune system, the ...

Animal poisons and the nervous system: what the neurologist needs to know.

Correspondence to: Professor J B Harris, School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK; [email protected] _________________________ T he vast majority of us experience trivial and sometimes inconvenient bites and stings, but we never imagine that the next bite or sting might precipitate a medical emergency. Similarly, we ...

Child neurology: Brachial plexus birth injury: what every neurologist needs to know.

While most often transient, brachial plexus birth injury can cause permanent neurologic injury. The major risk factors for brachial plexus birth injury are fetal macrosomia and shoulder dystocia. The degree of injury to the brachial plexus should be determined in the neonatal nursery, as those infants with the most severe injury--root avulsion--should be referred early for surgical evaluation s...

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