Boost Nervous System Health: Vitamins, Exercise & Herbs

How does caffeine affect your nervous system and can herbs help you relax naturally? Maintaining nerve health requires the right vitamins, calcium balance, and understanding how exercise influences sympathetic activity.

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Diseases That Cause Muscle Twitches

Muscle twitches are brief, painless, involuntary movements of parts of muscles. Some are visible under the skin, others are just felt. Disorders affecting any part of the nervous system that controls movement, or the muscles themselves, can result in muscle twitches.

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Frontal Lobe Brain Tumor Symptoms

The Central Brain Tumor Registry estimates that 68,470 people will be newly diagnosed with a brain tumor in the United States in 2015. There are many types of brain tumors, which arise from cells in the brain or surrounding tissues. Some grow in the cerebrum -- the largest part of the brain.

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Causes of Clonus

When doctors check reflexes, they don’t always get a normal response. Clonus, a type of hyperactive reflex, is a rhythmic response to reflex testing. Instead of just one movement, a series of repetitive reflex movements are observed.

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