Cholera – Characteristics and History
The post appeared first on Health tips. Cholera is an acute diarrheal disease usually accompanied by vomiting and resulting in severe dehydration or water loss and its consequences. The disease is...
View ArticleDo vaccines contain toxic ingredients?
The post appeared first on Health tips. Mayer Eisenstein, MD, author of the book Don’t Vaccinate Before You Educate, made this statement about childhood disease: “The greatest threat of childhood...
View ArticleRestless Legs Syndrome as a Neurological Conodrum
The post appeared first on Health tips. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is among the most common neurological conditions affecting the general population. A number of epidemiological studies in Europe and...
View ArticleRestless Legs Syndrome (RLS) – The Patient’s Perspective
The post appeared first on Health tips. “You know more about this than I do.”A neurologist made this comment at the end of my second visit in 1994. My immediate internal reaction was, “If that is the...
View ArticleFrom 1685 to 2008: An Introduction to Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a dysesthesia that is difficult for patients to define. There is a great variability in the wording of its description. Some...
View ArticleRestless Legs Syndrome as a Movement Disorder
The post appeared first on Health tips. Movement disorders are neurological disorders in which there is either (1) an excess of movement or (2) a paucity of voluntary and automatic movements, unrelated...
View ArticleRestless Legs Syndrome and Nocturnal Myoclonus (Periodic Limb Movements...
The post appeared first on Health tips. In a lecture on the predormitum (or sleeping, as Gowers, cited in Critchley,1 liked to call it), Critchley1 mentioned a predormitum restlessness, which, he said,...
View ArticleClinical Science of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. The masterful description of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a monograph written over half a century ago by Ekbom,1 even giving clues as to the pathophysiology,...
View ArticleEpidemiology and Genetics – The Epidemiology of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Although a description of symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) first appeared in the clinical literature more than three centuries ago,1 little is known...
View ArticleGenetics of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Clinical Genetics of Restless Legs Syndrome Data from epidemiological and family studies clearly indicate that a genetic component plays an important role in the...
View ArticleThe Iron Metabolic System
The post appeared first on Health tips. Iron is one of the essential micronutrients and, as such, is required for growth, development, and normal cellular functioning. In contrast to some other...
View ArticleIron Dysregulation in Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. In the 1940s and 1950s, while Ekbom1,2 was proposing a vascular model for restless legs syndrome (RLS), Nordlander3 was establishing a role for iron in RLS. He...
View ArticleThe Brain’s Dopamine Systems and Their Relevance to Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Synthesis and Metabolism of Dopamine The family of catecholamines includes norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine, of which dopamine is the most abundant in...
View ArticleNeuroimaging in Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Positron-Emission Tomography and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Imaging Studies Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and...
View ArticlePATHOPHYSIOLOGY: Circadian Rhythm of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Circadian Variation in Restless Legs Syndrome One of the defining features of the restless legs syndrome (RLS) is that it shows a notable circa-dian rhythm with...
View ArticleSpinal Cord,Dopamine, Opiates and Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) leads to abnormal limb sensations and periodic limb movements (PLMS). Due to the excellent responses to treat-ment with dopaminergic...
View ArticleDiagnosis of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Restless legs syndrome (RLS), like most syndromes, represents multiple biological pathologies that share a common clinical presentation. As such, the diagnosis...
View ArticleDifferential Diagnosis of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) continues to elude recognition and diagnosis despite a lucid description of the entity by Ekbom1 in the middle of the last century....
View ArticleDIAGNOSIS: Periodic Limb Movements in Sleep
The post appeared first on Health tips. Periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS) are involuntary, repetitive, stereotypic, short-lasting segmental movements of the lower and sometimes upper limbs....
View ArticleSleep Laboratory Diagnosis of Restless Legs Syndrome
The post appeared first on Health tips. The diagnosis of restless legs syndrome (RLS) relies essentially on the presence of four clinical manifestations: (1) an urge to move, usually accompanied or...
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