You can survive the hospital. Finish rehab. Be told you're doing well. And still feel absolutely nothing like yourself. For a lot of people recovering from a stroke, concussion, or brain injury, this is the part that blindsides them. The headaches that won't quit. The exhaustion that makes even a quiet day feel like too much. The sleep that doesn't restore anything. The brain fog, the anxiety, the low mood, and that persistent, demoralising feeling that you should be further

If you or someone you love is living with motor neurone disease (MND), also called ALS, you’ll know how hard it is to live with the unknowns. We still don’t fully understand what starts the illness, or what keeps it getting worse once it begins. For years, most research has focused on the brain and spinal cord, because that’s where the nerve cells are clearly being damaged. But what if one important part of the “spark” is happening somewhere else, like in the gut? The gut lin

The morning everything changes Some children go to bed one way and wake up another. Obsessive-compulsive behaviours arrive at speed. Tics spike. Anxiety flares. Eating can abruptly narrow to a frighteningly small range - or stop altogether. That cliff-edge onset is the hallmark of Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) , a syndrome defined by the sudden arrival of OCD and/or severely restricted food intake, accompanied by additional neuropsychiatric symptoms