During Your Pregnancy, Epilepsy, Expecting, Neurosciences, Obstetrics

Pregnancy and epilepsy

If you have epilepsy, but are thinking of getting pregnant, you may have questions about how epilepsy affects pregnancy or a fetus. Epilepsy affects each person differently, based on medication,…

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Memory, Neurosciences

Treating memory impairment can improve care for all other medical issues

Memory loss complicates treatment of every other medical condition you may have. You can’t recall symptoms from a month ago or earlier this morning. Family medical history may be difficult…

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Multiple Sclerosis, Neurosciences

Getting started on a healthy lifestyle with MS

If you have multiple sclerosis, physical exercise can be an important part of your treatment. But don’t let that word — exercise — put you off. Everyone should be getting…

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Migraine and Headaches, Neurosciences

Those headaches you’ve been blaming on your sinuses? They may be migraine attacks

You live in Louisville or Southern Indiana, so you get sinus headaches, right? Well, maybe not. They very well could be migraine attacks, and the way you’ve been treating them…

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Neurosciences

Potential new Alzheimer’s drug shows promising results

A new medication may be showing hopeful results in treating Alzheimer’s disease. Donanemab, an antibody treatment from Eli Lilly, targets a form of plaque that accumulates in the brains of…

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Neurosciences, Sports - Concussion, Sports Health

An athlete’s recovery from concussion follows a step-by-step process

The typical time it takes an athlete to heal from a concussion ranges from two to six weeks and follows an evaluation at each step before the athlete is approved…

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COVID19, Migraine and Headaches, Neurosciences

After recovering from COVID-19, some get persistent, debilitating headaches

Headaches after recovering from COVID-19 can be persistent for some patients, and neurologists are finding some effective ways to address the debilitating pain that can linger. “Imagine a 24/7 headache…

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Migraine and Headaches, Neurosciences

Treatment for cluster headaches — ‘The most severe pain’

Cluster headache medication can reduce the extreme pain of these episodic headaches, as well as the frequency. Active periods of cluster headaches can last one week to several months, with…

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Brain Cancer, Brain Tumor, Brain Tumor, Cancer, Neurosciences, Patient stories - Norton Healthcare

Brain cancer doesn’t stop for the pandemic; it didn’t stop for Ben Smith

A seizure in late May, followed by another in early June led Ben Smith to the emergency department at Norton Women’s & Children’s Hospital. Visitor restrictions were in place due…

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Neurosciences, Spine

Numbness and weakness in your arms or legs? It may be your back

If you experience frequent numbness and weakness in your arms or legs, the issue may be in your back. Over time, the gradual wear and tear of the vertebrae protecting…

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Behavioral Health, Neurosciences

Managing stress and anxiety at the holidays

Holidays can be a joyful time but also a time to cause extra mental stress and anxiety. Bryan Davis, Psy.D., clinical health psychologist with Norton Neuroscience Institute, discusses some ways…

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Aneurysm, Arteriovenous Malformation, Endovascular Neurosurgery, Neurosciences, Stroke

New technology speeds stroke care, increases precision for brain surgery

Breakthrough imaging equipment in two new procedure rooms at Norton Brownsboro Hospital provides 3D pictures of the inside of the brain, giving neurosurgeons detailed, multi-angled views of blood vessels causing…

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