Neuroscience

Neuroscience, Parenting, Pediatrics

What Makes a Child Tic?

Frequent eye blinking, facial grimacing, shoulder shrugging, sniffling, repetitive throat clearing or uncontrolled vocalization – these are all symptoms of a tic. For a parent, seeing or hearing your child exhibit these unexpected movements or sounds can be extremely worrisome. Dr. Khrizman provided some of the most common questions parents ask surrounding their child’s tic.

Brain Health, Neuroscience

Get Sharp: Here’s How You Can Boost Your Brain Health

As we embark full steam ahead into the New Year, many of us will set familiar resolutions – save more money, eat healthier, exercise more often – in hopes of becoming the best version of ourselves in the weeks, months and years ahead. Even though we’ve all felt foggy from time to time, there is one resolution we don’t see often enough: Better brain health.

Neuroscience

Understanding MS after Selma Blair Speaks Out

Blair’s Shocking Multiple Sclerosis Announcement: “I Have Had Symptoms for Years”. Blair mentions that she “probably had this incurable disease for 15 years at least.” This probably makes you wonder, how do neurologists make a diagnosis of MS?