Dr. Deeb Kayed, MD, FAAN
Neurology, American Board Neurology and Neurophysiology
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Radiculopathy
- January 19, 2023
Do you experience neck pain or back pain that goes down to the arms, hands, legs, and feet? Do you experience tingling, “pins and needles” and numbness or shooting pain down the arms or legs? You could have a Radiculopathy Radiculopathy is an irritation or compression of a nerve root in the spine. People often call it a “pinched nerve”. But inflammation can cause irritation to the nerve even if the nerve is not pinched or compressed. The pinched nerve can occur at different areas along the spine (cervical, thoracic and lumbar). Causes of Radiculopathy: Radiculopathy prevention: While radiculopathy cannot…
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Scientific advances in migraine management?
- January 5, 2023
We can think of the treatment of migraine as treating the acute attack and utilizing preventive treatment for people with frequent and severe headaches. A sort of ‘revolution’ in the treatment of acute migraine attacks came along in the early 1990s with the approval of sumatriptan for acute migraine therapy. Triptans are migraine specific pain killers that provided relief for countless people who were suffering from migraines due to inadequate responses to the available treatments at the time. The next ‘revolution’ in the care of migraine patients came in the late 1980s when a molecule called CGRP was discovered. It…
READ MOREDr Kayed graduated with honors (magna cum laude) from the University of Evansville in Indiana with a BSc degree in Biology in 1986. He next obtained his MD degree from St George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada in 1990. He next completed his Neurology residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, USA where he also served as chief resident.
Thereafter, Dr Kayed obtained subspecialty fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology at Allegheny University Hospitals (1997) and in Advanced Clinical Neurology / Pediatric Neurology at Jefferson University Hospital (1998), all in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Dr Deeb Khayed is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at The MBRU School of Medicine, Dubai, UAE and Founding member of the Emirates Neurology Society.
- American Board Recertification in Neurology 2017
- American Board Certified in Clinical Neurophysiology 1999
- American Board Certified in Neurology 1997
- Headache & Migraine
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Neurophysiology
- (EEG/EMG)
- Memory Disorders
- Epilepsy
- General Neurology
Dr. Deeb Kayed, US. Board Certified Neurologist & Clinical Neurophysiologist
