Neurological disorders are disorders that affect the central nervous system (brain, brainstem and cerebellum), the peripheral nervous system (peripheral nerves - cranial nerves) included), or the autonomic nervous system (parts of which are located in both central and peripheral nervous system). Major conditions include: headache disorders such as migraine and tension headache (cluster headache) epilepsy and seizure disorders neurodegenerative disorders, the most common class being dementias, incl ...

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Neurology, Neurology - Field of work, Neurology - Clinical tasks, Neurology - General caseload, Neurology - Overlap with psychiatry

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Anosognosia, Anosognosia - Neurology, Anosognosia - Psychiatry, Anosognosia - Treatment, Anosognosia - Research

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The development of modern neurology began in the sixteenth century with Vesalius, who described the anatomy of the brain and much else; he had little notion of function, thinking that it lay mainly in the ventricles. He did not remove the brain from the skull before cutting it. Thomas Willis in 1664, published his Anatomy of the Brain, followed by Cerebral Pathology in 1676. He removed the brain from the cranium, and was able to describe it more clearly, setting forth the circle of Willis – the circle of vessels that enables arterial suppl ...

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Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. Brain damage may occur due to a wide range of conditions, illnesses, or injuries. Possible causes of widespread (diffuse) brain damage include prolonged hypoxia (shortage of oxygen), poisoning, infection, and neurological illness. Common causes of focal or localized brain damage are physical trauma (traumatic brain injury), stroke, aneurysm, or neurological illness. The extent and effect of brain injury is often assessed by the use of neurological examinatio ...

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Wilson's disease or lentigohepatic degeneration is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease, with an incidence of about 1 in 30,000. Its main feature is accumulation of copper in tissues, which manifests itself with neurological symptoms and liver disease. The estimated heterozygous carrier rate is about 1 in 90, meaning that 1 in 90 people are unaffected carriers of this mutation. The disease affects men and women equally and occurs in all races. Wilson's disease - Description. The Wilson's dise ...

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• Wilson's disease - Ophthalmologic
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• Wilson's disease - Diagnosis
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Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers disability due to brain injury, seems unaware of or denies the existence of their handicap. This may include unawareness of quite dramatic impairments, such as blindness or paralysis. It was first named by neurologist Joseph Babinski in 1914, although relatively little has been discovered about the cause of the condition since its initial identification. The word comes from the greek words "nosos" disease and "gnosis" knowledge. Anosognosia - Neurolog ...

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Ageusia (pronounced ay-GOO-see-uh) is the loss of taste functions of the tongue, particularly the inability to detect sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness. It is typically a symptom of anosmia - a loss of the sense of smell. Because the tongue can only indicate texture and differentiate between sweet, sour, bitter and salty, most of what is perceived as the sense of taste is actually derived from smell. True Aguesia is relatively rare compared to the milder forms of taste loss: hypogeusia and dysgeusia. Hypogeusia represents ...

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Clinical lycanthropy is a psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusional belief that the affected person is, or has, transformed into an animal. It is named after the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which people are said to physically shapeshift into werewolves. The word zoanthropy is also sometimes used for the delusion that one has turned into an animal in general and not specifically a wolf. Clinical lycanthropy - Symptoms. Affected individuals report a delusional ...

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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a membrane that controls the passage of substances from the blood into the central nervous system. It is a physical barrier between the blood vessels in the central nervous system, and most parts of the central nervous system itself, that stops many substances from traveling across it. Blood-brain barrier - History. The existence of such a barrier was first noticed in experiments by Paul Ehrlich in the late 19th century. Ehrlich was a bacteriologist who was studying s ...

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• Blood-brain barrier - Late-stage neurological trypanosomiasis Sleeping sickness
• Blood-brain barrier - Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy PML
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Physical therapy (also known as physiotherapy) is a health profession concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and disability through physical means. It is based upon principles of medical science, and is generally held to be within the sphere of conventional (rather than alternative) medicine. Physiotherapy is practiced by physiotherapists (also known as physical therapists, e.g. in the United States), though aspects may also be practiced under supervised delegation by physiotherapy assi ...

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An abstraction is an idea, concept, or word which defines the phenomena that make up its referents (those concrete events or things to which the abstraction refers). Abstraction - Thought process. In philosophical terminology abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects. Abstraction uses a strategy of simplification of detail, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined; thus speaking of things in the abstract demands that the listener have ...

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• Abstraction - The neurology of abstraction
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Carbon monoxide poisoning is a form of toxicity due to two main mechanisms: CO binds to hemoglobin and decreases the oxygen content of blood; this results in acute tissue hypoxic injury CO binds to mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase and impairs oxidative phosphorylation and causes cell damage Carbon monoxide (CO) binds very strongly to the iron atoms in hemoglobin, the principal oxygen-carrying compound in blood. The affinity between CO and hemoglobin is 240 times stronger than the affinity between he ...

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Free will is the philosophical doctrine that holds that our choices are ultimately up to ourselves. The phrase "up to ourselves" is vague, and, just like free will itself, admits of a variety of interpretations. Because of this ambiguity, the utility of the concept of free will is questioned by some. Several logically independent questions can be asked about free will. Free will - Determinism versus indeterminism. Determinism holds that each state of affairs is necessitated (determined) by the states of aff ...

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• Free will - Compatibilist theories and the could-have-done-otherwise principle
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• Free will - Determinism and emergent behaviour
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• Free will - In Christian thought
• Free will - In Jewish thought

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Parkinsonism describes the common symptoms of Parkinson's disease - tremor, rigidity, akinesia or bradykinesia and postural instability. Those patients who respond to drug treatment for Parkinson's disease are diagnosed with it, and those who do not have parkinsonism. Categories: Eponymous diseases | Neurology | Geriatrics Other related archivesEponymous diseases, Geriatrics, Neurology, Parkinson's di

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In medicine (neurology), bradykinesia denotes "slow movement" (etymology: brady = slow, kinesia = movement). It is a feature of a number of diseases, most notably Parkinson's disease and other disorders of the basal ganglia. Other related archivesParkinson's disease, basal ganglia, etymology, medicine, neurology

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"ADHD" is a four-letter acronym that might mean: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, a neurological disorder. ADHD, a Washington DC-based band. Category: Ambiguous four-letter acronyms Other related archivesADHD, Ambiguous four-letter acronyms, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, acronym, neurological disorder

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The word sympathetic means different things in different contexts. In neurology, the sympathetic nervous system is a part of the autonomic nervous system. In music theory, sympathetic strings are strings on a musical instrument that resonate on their own. In psychology, sympathy is a feeling of compassion or identification with another. Other related archivesautonomic nervous system, music theory, musical instrument, neurology, psychology, resonate, sympa

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António R. Damásio, pron. IPA /ɐ̃.'tɔ.ni.u dɐ.'ma.zi.u/, (b. 1954, Lisbon, Portugal) physician and neurologist, is Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Neurology at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Institute for the Neurological Study of Emotion and Creativity. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W. Van Allen Professor and Head of Neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center. Iowa City, Iowa, United States. ...

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A particularly devastating form of paraneoplastic syndromes is a group of disorders classified as paraneoplastic neurological disorders (PNDs). These paraneoplastic disorders affect the brain and central nervous system and they are degenerative. Symptoms of paraneoplastic neurological disorders include ataxia (difficulty with walking and balance), dizziness, nystagmus (rapid uncontrolled eye movements), speech problems, mental changes, and motor deterioration. The most common cancers associated with paraneoplastic neurological disorders are breast, ovarian and lung cancer ...

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Paraneoplastic phenomenon, Paraneoplastic phenomenon - Examples, Paraneoplastic phenomenon - Neurological, Paraneoplastic phenomenon - Organisations, Paraneoplastic phenomenon - External link

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The frontal lobe of the brain controls a number of advanced cognitive functions, as well as motor control. Motor control is located at the rear of the frontal lobe, and is usually unaffected by psychosurgery. The anterior or prefrontal area is involved in impulse control, judgement, language, memory, motor function, problem solving, sexual behaviour, socialisation and spontaneity. Frontal lobes assist in plannin ...

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