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Neurology
Pediatrics - Neurology
Licenses
United States: Illinois
Languages spoken
Arabic
Doctor Q&A
101 Answers
253 Agrees
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A 24-year-old male asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Status epilepticus: It is an emmergency, call 911, the paramedics will start treatment on spot, preserving breathing by intubation, giving intraventicular seizure medicat... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
CHIARI-1: When talking about chiari syndrome, usually it means type one which is the commonest type and usually diagnsed incidentally when brain MRI is done to ... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
YES: Yes, analgesics are safe to take in patients with seizures, it is advised to reduce the pain in patients with seizures as extreme stress and physical ... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
PLMD: Periodic limb movement disorder is a sleep disorder caused by low iron stores in the body caracterized by low serum ferritin.
Plmd can lead to frquent... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Spinal cord: Actually yes, it is also called medulla spinalis, medulla means a structure in the middle of the organ and spinalis is related to the vertebral spines... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Vasovagal: The common cause of fainting is a vasovagal reflex, which the activation of the vagus nerve causing rapid slow down of heart rate causing a sudden shu... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Gelastic seizure: Gelastic seizure is a type of seizure caused by hypothalamic hamartoma, usually the patient will have sudden laughing or crying episode, it is more wi... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Epidural: Usually not, it can cause just the prick of the needle it self, and most of the time they use local anesthesia before that.
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A 38-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Salam seizure: Infantile spasm is a cluster of subtle movement of upper extremities and head bobbing which can be just for a second and can be back to back as a clus... Read More
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A 21-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
NF: Nf-1 characterized by optic glioma and cafe au lait spots, where nf-2 characterized by a tumor of both hearing nerve in both side in addition to menig... Read More
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A 26-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Chronic migraine: Migraine headache tends to be recurrent, when it occurs more than one episode a week it needs to be treated with preventive medications to stop reccur... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Tremors: Tremors has many etiologies, it can be side effects of some medications, or a symptom of some systemic disorders like hyperthyroidism, it can be a be... Read More
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A member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Spine MRI: Although your pcp can order a spine mri, but i advise you to be seen by either a neurologist of neuro surgeon inorder to be more specific, sometimes a... Read More
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A 26-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
CHRONIC HEADACHE: Recurrent episodic headache can be migraine, migraine headache is episodic, frontal , throbbing, associated with nausea, vomiting, light and noise int... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Fabry disease: Fabry disease is a hereditary disease and transmitted as x-linked recessive, meaning that the carrier mother transmits the disease to 50% of her sons,... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Hereditary SP: Hsp, is a genetic disorder transmitted as autosomal dominant, meaning one of the parent has the disease in order to pass it to the offspring.
It is a... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
MOOD CHANGE: Yes, one of an indication of Trileptal is for mood fluctuation, it is cosidered as a mood stabilizer.
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A 37-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Tremor: Tremors have a lot of causes it can be simple or serious, excessive caffeine intake, stress, tiredness or lack of sleep can cause tremors, hyperthyroi... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Happy Puppet Syndrom: As is a genetic disorder, a chromosome 15 deletion, characterized by intellectual and developmental delay, sleep disorder, seizures, jerky movements, ... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Nocturnal emmision: Wet dreams occurs mostly in teen males, it is happened when the seminal fluid accumulates in the seminal vesicles and be overfilled so the nerve endin... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Sensitive tooth: I advise to check with your dentist.
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A 42-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
CPS: Cps, is more common and difficult to treat than grand mal or generalized seizures, sometimes one seizure medication is not enough to treat cps, in som... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Infant mortality: Some ways to decrease infant mortality rate:
1- give vaccinations.
2- enforce car seat belt
3- back to back position of sleep
4- report child abus... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Infantile spasm: Yes, infantile spasm is one of epilepsy syndromes that represent in infancy, it can be symptomatic due to brain structural abnormalities or metabolic ... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Head concussion: Any head trauma can cause head concussion, the common symptoms are: headache, dizziness, vision disturbances, memory loss, unsteady gate, and sleep di... Read More
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A 18-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
STAY ALERT: To stay alert during the day, it is very important to get enough hours of sleep, a teenager should sleep not less than 9 hrs, an adult person should s... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
TRILEPTAL: Yes, you can, the common side effects of Trileptal are, nausea, increased appetite and slight drowziness also it can cause low sodium level in the blo... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
It is transient: This is the effect of the local anesthesia that the dentist gives inorder to numb the area that he works in to avoid the associated pain while treatin... Read More
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A 29-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Circumcision: Male circumcision has a lot of health benefits and in some religions it is advocated like in islam and judism.
It is known medically that circumcision... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Head concussion: It depends on the severity of the impact, but it is possible with any head trauma and the symptoms varies according to the head trauma.
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A female asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
PET scan: No, PET scan is a diagnostic tool and it helps in diagnosis, in PTS, brain MRI and measuring the CSF pressure are enough for diagnosis in addition to ... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Diabetes: The best thing to do in diabetes to avoid the complications, is to control the blood sugar, taking your medicines on time, daily checking of blood sug... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Post stress syndrome: This it can be as a part of previous experience with tornadoes as a post traumatic stress syndrome or as night mares due to seeing movies ar hearing s... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
VALPORIC ACID: Divalproex, is a seizure medicine, the generic name is valporic acid, it has been in the market as an antiseizure medicine for long time, it is a good... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Tics: Most commonly this represents motor tics especially when you are aware of them.
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A 41-year-old female asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Constipation: Constipation is a common problem in children and it is very critical to treat as it can leads to a lot of medical issues including abd. Pain, anal fis... Read More
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A 50-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
DEPRESSION: In addition to difficulty sleeping and and losing significant weight, a depressive mood, feeling hopless and helpless and feeling alone are some sympt... Read More
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A female asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Contact dermatitis: You need to stop using the thing that caused the reaction and treat it by using a topical steroid cream, in case of severe reaction a systemic antihis... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
BRAIN TUMOR: Brain tumor can be benign or malignant, also the prognosis depends on the location of the tumor.
Currently a lot of advaned ways help in dianosis and... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Hand numbness: Hand numbness can be caused by carpal tunnel syndrome which is a compression of median nerve in the wrist, it can occur in women , pregnancy, hypothyr... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Acoustic nerve: Acoustic nerve which is the 8th cranial nerve is the cranial nerve responsible for hearing, originates from the inner ear and runs in the brain stem u... Read More
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A 23-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Altered mental statu: Altered mental status may present as sudden cofusion or loss of memory, seizure when it happens it is followed b postictal cofusion without recalling... Read More
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A 25-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
NF-1 AND 2: Neurofibromatosis, is a genetic disorder transmitted as autosomal dominant, meaning one of the parents needs to be affected to transmit the disease to... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Blood thinners: Yes, it is called also blood thinners that prevent the blood to making thrombus inside the blood vesseles.
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A 34-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
HYPERTONICITY: Hyper tonic movements may be considered as extrpyramidal signs which means a disorder of the basal ganglia which are a structure in the brain controll... Read More
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A 23-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
Arachnoid cyst: I don't think so, this cyst is small and harmless ausually discovered accidentally when head ct scan or brain MRI is done as a work up for headache.
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A 23-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
MIGRAINE HEADACHE: Migraine is a type of headache mostly associated and triggered by stress either emotional or physical, in high percentage of patients with migraine th... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
STRESS: Stress in teenagers may lead to insomnia either sleep onset or sleep maintanence, relaxation may help, the best way for treatment is cognitive behavio... Read More
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A 19-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
SYNCOPE: Fainting can be caused by vasovegal reflex which is an activation of the vagus nerve that innervates the heart, when it is activated it decreases the ... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:

Dr. Mohammad Homsianswered
Neurology 35 years experience
NERVE COMPRESSION: You have meralgia paresthetica, which is caused by compression of the lateral cutaneous femoral nerve at the level of the hip on the lateral side, mo... Read More
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Mar 30, 2015
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Homsi is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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I applied cortisone cream. Was just hoping I could just do that after the taping. Thank you for giving your time to answer my question.
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
unknown
Graduated 1988MD
Medical/Graduate school
Wayne State University School of Medicine, MI
Graduated 2003MD
Medical/Graduate school
University of Damascus Faculty of Medicine, Syria
Graduated 1983MD
Residency
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
Completed 2006
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