Q: When I write I can’t see words in my mind’s eye. I use a dictionary constantly. I can’t chat online because the stress debilitates me to the point where I can’t spell the word “run” or even know what letter it begins with. I try to sound the word out with my mouth but [...]

Q: From what I understand, hearing words in the background, or a flash of a visual image while watching something, is registered by the subconscious. This seems somewhat believable to me. What I do not understand or believe is that if someone talks normally, and it’s heard in reverse to say something different, that our [...]

Q: I’m 18 and I feel like my brain is deteriorating. I have a bad memory and I think it’s getting worse. I also think I may be dyslexic. I’ve had Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) for most of my life, and I think I may also have a rhythmic movement disorder. I want to know [...]

Q: I am noticing trouble with my four-year-old niece, that reminds me of childhood epilepsy. For a while now I have noticed that she sometimes stares blankly. At first, I thought she did it because she was daydreaming, or listening and taking it all in. There is never a loss of consciousness and she picks [...]

Q: My sister was diagnosed six weeks ago with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a rapidly progressing degenerative brain disease). She is my only sibling and I am having such a difficult time dealing with all of this. My parents are in their mid-70s and it breaks my heart to see them go through this loss, as it [...]

Q: I’m a 16-year-old girl. I have been told my whole life that I have two personalities. Recently this has become a serious issue. People have told me I suddenly act aggressively — that I hit, swear, and throw things — then behave as if I have done nothing wrong. It’s like I am aggressive [...]

Q: I recently had an odd problem. I could communicate verbally well enough, but when I tried to type or write, the words came out jumbled and incoherent. This increased or decreased with the pressure or stress level of what I was writing. Cognitively I thought I was writing fully-formed words and sentences, but in [...]