But whereas, say, Richard Powers's most recent novel, "The Echo Maker," is explicitly about the phenomenology of this delusion, complete with a barrage of neurological facts, Galchen's novel more boldly denies us the comfort of a conclusive explanation.
She can repeat anything we say to her; that's an important neurological recovery fact.
Despite this fact, neurological injury remains an important cause of postoperative morbidity and is responsible for an increasing proportion of perioperative deaths.
It is of note that in fact neurological soft signs and cognitive deficits have been thought to be functional correlates of the same pathophysiological substrate.
Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are extremely important for brain development and neurological function – in fact, 20% of an infant's brain is made up of these essential fatty acids.
The causes can take up chapters of neurological textbooks, but the fact that yours have existed for years tends to rule out the more serious ones.
It is, in fact, a neurological alarm system; one that can go wrong for a variety of reasons – shingles, sciatica, spinal cord tumours or lesions, to name a few.
In spite of the fact that neurological examination was normal and that the headaches resolved completely with lamotrigine therapy, the bilaterality of patient's headache instantly raised the concern about possible symptomatic origin.
The proposal of first-degree sinus barotrauma may be reasonable as it is explained by the fact that neurological examinations, such as CT, MRI, MRA and ENT, have shown normal sinus conditions in several studies [5, 7 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 26, 35].
