Month: September 2018

Better Diet, Bigger Brain

Better Diet, Bigger Brain - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates
“…diet, a modifiable lifestyle factor, holds the ability to modulate brain health and function.” From Murphy et al. 2014 What’s the best way to measure brain health? Is it by observing how well a person performs on paper-and-pencil challenges? Movement tests? Social behavior? Brain structure based on imaging? An additional way might be to infer optimum brain keep reading

Categories of Tremors

Essential Tremor - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates
The world of tremors is filled with mysteries and puzzles. Not even the best medical professionals can unravel every person’s unique situation. According to one source, general neurologists treating tremor have a diagnostic error rate of 25% to 35%.i This is partly due to the fact that there are different categories of tremors, and there keep reading

England is Embracing MRgFUS for Essential Tremor

England is Embracing MRgFUS for ET - Sperling Neurosurgery Associates
“Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves…Britons never will be slaves” You may not be familiar with the words of Rule, Britannia, an eighteenth century British patriotic song, but you would undoubtedly recognize the tune. It was written when the British navy dominated the globe, and is a proud statement of freedom. As anyone with essential keep reading