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Oakland Park, FL
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I am a neurologist with fellowship training in behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. I diagnose and treat a wide variety of psychiatric and neurologic conditions including ADHD, bipolar, depression, anxiety, migraines, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and other conditions that cause memory or thinking changes, such as concussion.
In my free time, I enjoy collecting raw honeys from all over the world; it never spoils!
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Neurology
Psychiatry
Licenses
United States: Florida, New York
Languages spoken
Hebrew
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262 Answers
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A 35-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Yes: A variety of medications have been associated with the development or worsening of a tic. It is unclear whether these medications are unmasking the c... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Verapamil: it is excellent choice for migraines and should help with POTS by not allowing the heart rate to go so fast
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A 44-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Sleep: The most common cause of fatigue is sleep deprivation. You may have extra energy, due to straterra, and therefore be sleeping less. Check your sleep... Read More
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A 20-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Go to Doc: A headache associated with nose bleeding should be evaluated by a physician, especially if you do not get regular headaches.
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A 47-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Lots of things: Panic disorder can be a lifelong condition, and the best treatment involves doing multiple things to improve your ability to cope with stress. Physic... Read More
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A 57-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Yes: Honey, and tea for that matter, are good for just about anything. Honey and lemon tea are not particularly famous for helping upset stomachs. If yo... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Go back to doc: If you still have throbbing pressure and headache, your infection may not have resolved. Headaches are not so common with ear infections, unless it's... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Not known: Long-term effects of piracetam are not known, but generally it is considered safe.
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A 24-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Not brain damaged: Geodon (ziprasidone) does not cause insomnia, and it should not damage your brain in a way to cause insomnia. You may be experiencing insomnia relate... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Avoid SSRI's: In general, the class of medications known as ssri's are known to affect sex in a specific way: they make it difficult to have orgasm. This is common... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Lots of things: Dizziness and weakness in young people can be caused by anemia (low blood count). Heart conditions can also cause these symptoms, as well as infectio... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Yes: First, be sure you are minimally physically active every day. Then, look up "mindfulness-based stress reduction". Try to do at least five minutes tw... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Can stop soon: If you've not had exposure to Ativan (lorazepam) or other benzodiazepine type drugs in the past, then three days of Ativan (lorazepam) at 0.25 per day... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Not common: Palpitations are not a common side effect of topamax (topiramate) but they are listed as a possible side effect. You should see your doctor. You ma... Read More
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A 50-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Check it out: Chest tightness in a male of your age should be evaluated promptly. Chest pain is the word we all know, but more often it is pressure or tightness th... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Auras: When a person is unaware of a mini seizure, this can be due to a complex partial seizure or a generalized absenc seizure. These seizures affect level... Read More
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A 34-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Seizure: See a doctor you probably have seizures from the scar tissue from the surgery.
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A 42-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
See doc: First be sure you get an exam. You may need an MRI or catcan. If there is no evidence of structural causes, and your doctor determines it is ot migr... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Ulnar neuropathy: The symptoms are in the distribution of the ulnar nerve on each side. This can be caused by repeatedly leaning on the elbows. If your father doesnt ... Read More
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A 30-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Real: Auras are symptoms experienced by patients with seizures. They usually precede the onset of the seizure, and can be a clue to where the seizure speci... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Depends: Brain tumors can cause serious symptoms at any point in their course, and different brain tumors progress at different rates.
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A 37-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Brain: Numbness in half of the body, especially if it includes the face, can be a sign of a brain problem. Occasionally migraine headaches can cause numbnes... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
For life: Brain stem functions include most things we do reflexively without thinking, like breathing, swallowing, adjusting our heart rate to our environment, ... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Autonomic neuropathy: Moistness in the hands come from the autonomic nervous system. It sounds like you may be experiencing symptoms of dysfunction of the autonomic nerves... Read More
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A 44-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Not sure: I dont know what you mean by bone formation sunk in but it sounds like you should be evaluated immediately.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Unlikely: Typically, anorgasmia is not a side effect that patients become tolerant to over time.
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Probably: Diabetes commonly is associated with peripheral neuropathy, which is damage to the nerves, usually beginning in the ends of the nerves. Diabetes medi... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
No: Topamax (topiramate) does not cause permanent problems with fertility.
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A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Yes: Not all seizures can be detected with conventional tests. Nocturnal seizures, and those emanating from the frontal lobe often are difficult to detect... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
No: The use of coffee has actually been associated with reduced risk of parkinson's disease in population based studies.
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A 24-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Unclear: It sounds like you may have experienced some damage to a sensory nerve in the area of your operation. It may improve over time but it may not ever co... Read More
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A male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Get evaluated: All cases of vertigo, especially thise of new onset and those in patients with stroke risk factors such as hypertension, should be evaluated at least ... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Simethicone: It is over the counter and simply dissolves the gas.
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A 27-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Many things: Seizures in children can be caused by fever, by genetic causes of epilepsy, by metabolic derangements during illness, and by structural lesions in the... Read More
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A 75-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Verapamil: This calcium channel blocker which is traditionally used to lower blood pressure is sometimes effective for preventative treatment of vestibular migra... Read More
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A 36-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 15 years experience
Exercise: Tis simple intervention is proven to increase the effectiveness of ssri's. Cognitive behavioral therapy also increases the chances of success from ss... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Yes: It is due to hyperventilation. Just take slower, fewer breaths.
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Get evaluated: Neck stiffness associated with infection must always be evaluated immediately. Meningitis from bacterial, viral and fungal causes can occur.
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A 23-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Arthritis: Hand and finger stiffness is commonly associated with arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis can make people more prone to nerve entrapments. Peripheral ne... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Kidney stones: Often the pain from kidney stones can be referred to the testicles. In a person with a history of kidney stones and testicular pain, i would be conce... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Not opiods: Opiods like Oxycontin are not the best choice for long term pain management in a young person. That is partly because tolerance can develop over time... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
See a doc: Night sweats are a serious symptom. You need to be re evaluated.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Depends: This is a very general question that is not answerable directly because there are many types of speech problems. Strokes, seizures or tumors, also de... Read More
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Neurology 15 years experience
Depends: normal or "intact" memory usually refers to what is normal for that individual. so if someone experiences changes from their own baseline, that is co... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Neurology 15 years experience
25mg: You can even try 25mg PO once daily, at night, and see if it works. Then gradually go up to 50mg once daily, at night. It is not harmful to start at... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Vascular and social: Ethnic correlations with respect to dementia are probably related to differences among ethnicities in the prevalence of vascular risk factors such as ... Read More
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A 60-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Unlikely: Sun and exposure and "brain problems" don't really go together. However, sun exposure can lead to skin cancer, which occasionally can spread to the b... Read More
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A 49-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Acetyl l carnitine: The only thing with evidence to suggest it may be able to help nerve recovery in diabetic neuropathy is acetyl l carnitine. It is a safe over the cou... Read More
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Neurology 15 years experience
Mononeuropathy: It sounds like a small nerve is acting up. Sometimes this can happen due to injury (which i assume you didn't have) and sometimes due to medical cond... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Alon Seifananswered
Neurology 15 years experience
Yes: Benzodiazepines, antihistamines and anti nausea meds can be effective for treating severe motion sickness.
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Dr. Seifan is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Thank you. An on call Dr. filled my prescription yesterday. I closed my case at mental health and am now going through my primary care provider so this doesn't happen ag...Read More
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Thank You So much! They've Been Treating Me For PD 4Yrs Then Recentely Said I dont Have, Thought Maybe MSA. MS Ruled Out. Gonna Look Up Sp
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! I went to hospital, pinched nerve between shoulder blade n spine causing the excruciating pain in arm tingling legs cuz wasn't moving enough
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Graduated 2008MD
Residency
University of Miami / Jackson Health System
Awards
National Merit Scholar
Assistant Professor of Neurology Weill Cornell Medicine
Top Doctor, Second Place, Miami, FL - Winter
2013
Affiliations
Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine
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