There are many reasons to have dizziness. In this article I want to concentrate on how dizziness may be caused by vision issues. The most common reason for eyes contributing to dizziness is a concussion or a traumatic brain injury. This can occur at any age and even a seemingly minor incident as an infant,[…]
Most people’s idea of a prism is the well-known picture of a beam of light entering one side of a triangular piece of glass and being spit up into the rainbow of colors on the other. That is a prismatic effect that glass or plastic has on light. Prisms that are prescribed in eyeglass lenses[…]
Alzheimer’s is diagnosed by symptoms, brain tests like the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) Test, and PET scans which are like MRI’s of the brain. 95% of people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s do not get a PET scan because it is not covered by insurance and is expensive. Sometimes a spinal tap is needed to assess Alzheimer’s’[…]
Migraines are an extraordinarily prevalent neurological disease, affecting 39 million men, women, and children in the U.S. and 1 billion worldwide. 90% of migraine sufferers have it in their families and 85% of all migraineurs are women. Having a migraine is more than a bad headache as it is often accompanied by other disabling symptoms[…]
The short answer is, Yes! And here is how they work. In a concussion or traumatic brain injury the impact causes your brain to slosh around inside the skull, damaging the finely wired circuitry. While many people recover within three months of a hit to their head, a good percentage do not. Those people need[…]
