Neurology

Getting caught up in a patient’s bad mood may set up a lose-lose proposition.

Using music in medicine is an ancient practice. Here we review recent research efforts to better understand and apply music’s healing powers.

Any doc can do it: First, do NOT touch the patient, but DO check all EHR boxes for ROS and PE; also, do be sure to Rx yoga.

A physician says she has lied on job applications about treatment for postpartum depression. Is that really necessary?

"Primary care docs should be paid more, specialists less. More reimbursement for talking...less for testing and procedures." And, there's more.

A neurologist who treats headache has his eyes opened to the real possibility of marijuana as medicinal.

Results of two recent studies suggest that perioperative "bridge" anticoagulation may do more harm than good in some patients.

An association was found between headache or non-migrainous headache and later dementia. Not so for migraine.

Here's intriguing evidence that certain structural changes in the brain may be related to chronic migraines.

They work all week at stressful jobs without a headache--and spend the weekend in bed with a breakthrough migraine. What to do for them?

Do you know what drugs current guidelines recommend? Get an 8-slide update, here.

A new analysis of the ALLHAT study finds greater morbidity among patients with visit-to-visit variation in systolic BP than among those with more consistent measures.

If one triptan doesn't work for your patient's migraines, try, try again. A neurologist offers tips on the pros and cons of the 6 available agents.

A multi-step inflammatory cascade appears to connect hyperglycemia and brain dysfunction.

Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs-particularly eye and ear disorders-are prime diagnoses that bring patients to your primary care practice.

Insomnia is the predominant sleep disorder seen in autism spectrum disorder. The deficits of each condition compound those of the other.

By asking and answering these questions, I learned some new tricks that can help you help migraine sufferers.

“Lower is better” regardless of the lipid-lowering agent used, publication confirms.

The patient denies vertigo, hearing change, headache or ear pain. Physical exam and past medical history are benign. What does the brain MRI tell you?

Signs and symptoms may raise suspicion for a posterior circulation stroke.

New research suggests that depression and stroke share common cumulative etiologic mechanisms.

It’s time to rethink aspirin; there’s optimism about the PCSK9 inhibitors; and new help for people with valvular heart disease. What else is new in cardiology?

No monitoring necessary; don't use them before electrical cardioversion; and count them out for periprocedural use during AF ablation. Really?

Heart scans to ID stroke risk, insomnia reduces quality of life, air pollution may be a cause, women think of stroke as a man’s disease-see these and other developments in stroke science and patient care.

What brings patients to your office-and not the specialty office down the street? Insights in this slideshow.