Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, or progressive disabling memory and cognitive loss. While there are less common genetic forms, most of the time Alzheimer’s disease is acquired. Testing of brains in Alzheimer’s disease shows excessive amyloid-Beta…
Wearable sensors have become ubiquitous in modern life. Wellness sensors are widely worn, such as activity tracking smart watches, optical pulse rate monitors, smart scales, and more. Every day people use a variety of electronic monitoring devices to attempt to…
While a stroke typically results in a sudden onset of an outwardly obvious symptom such as slurred speech, weakness, or facial droop that then improves, there are often other symptoms that may linger and may be more difficult for outsiders…
A peripheral neuropathy is a disorder that affects the nerves that control sensation in the body and communicate this to the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Most typically, these are “length dependent,” meaning that the regions furthest away…
Multiple Sclerosis – a neurological condition where the myelin sheath that insulates the axons of nerve cells is destroyed – affects nearly 3 million people in the world, leading to significant disability in young adults. MS is thought to be…
As the name Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) suggests, the virus that causes Covid-19 is often focused on as a condition that causes breathing difficulties through infection and inflammation of the respiratory system. However, there have been reports…
Epilepsy disorders – involving excessive electrical activity in the brain that results in seizure – have been referenced in historical records as far back as 2000 BC. While there have been major diagnostic advances and improved medications developed over the…
Excited to share the news of another big step towards our vision of building online healthcare ecosystems to facilitate affordable healthcare services at the doorsteps . Our NeuroX project (online neurology care program) has partnered with STRATUS (formerly known as…