Hippos in flight, doors drifting downstream and a fraught audition for Strictly Come Dancing are just some of the hallucinations which Grandpa had that I remember. All my life I had known him to be a ...

Not seeing the left (or right) side can occur with occipital or parietal lobe damage. In my last post, I mentioned how the parietal lobes help to focus attention, and that it is asymmetric. Although ...

It happens. You’re mid-sentence when you realize you totally forgot what you’re saying, or you’re driving to work—on a route you’ve traveled 100 times—but you take a wrong turn. The truth is that ...

Robin Williams had been suffering from Lewy Body Dementia, a form of dementia that can cause hallucinations, which may have led the actor to commit suicide. When Williams committed suicide earlier ...

“People with Alzheimer’s dementia tend to maintain their social graces until relatively late in the disease,” Duxbury said.

Clinical diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) could be performed in the presence of motor symptoms such as resting tremor, rigidity, akinesia, bradykinesia and postural instability. Nonmotor symptoms ...

This time last year, Hayley, 57, was sectioned and admitted to a psychiatric unit. She was suffering from intense psychosis, paranoia and depression. Her behavior had changed so drastically that she ...