Page 1 of 10 Neuropathy ( sometimes called neuropathy, these terms are equivalent) - violation of the integrity or inflammation of an individual nerve or myelin sheath; polyneuropathy ( or p...

Chronic disorders of cerebral circulation - discirculatory encephalopathy is a slowly progressing cerebrovascular insufficiency, cerebral circulatory insufficiency, leading to the development ...

Tuberculous meningitis is primarily a secondary tuberculosis lesion( inflammation) of the meninges( soft, spider and less often hard) that occurs in patients with various forms of tuberculosis of...

Causes and Diagnosis neuralgia Trigeminal neuralgia Neuralgia pterygopalatine node neuralgia glossopharyngeal nerve herpetic neuralgia intercostal neuralgia Neuralg...

Tonus is the muscle tension that is necessary to maintain the body's posture and ensure its movements. The right balance of the tone of the various muscles is the condition for correct economical...

Arachnoiditis is an inflammation of the arachnoid of the brain. However, an isolated lesion of only one arachnoid membrane practically does not take place, since it lacks its own blood ves...

The German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 described a degenerative disease, later named in his name - irreversible progressive senile dementia. Augusta D. is a patient of Alois Al...

Parkinson's disease, or parkinsonism is a slowly progressive condition that manifests itself by slow motion, muscle stiffness and restless tremor. The disease was first described by the Englis...

The brain tissue is very sensitive to mechanical influences. Therefore, nature placed the human brain apart from the bone box( skull) in a protective liquid medium( subarachnoid fluid spaces) and...

Migraine is an attack( paroxysm) of intense headache in the half of the head( hemicrania), more often in the orbital - frontal - temporal region, which is accompanied by nausea, and even vomiting...

Encephalitis is an inflammatory disease of the brain. There are primary encephalitis - epidemic encephalitis( Economo disease), tick - borne( spring - summer) encephalitis, two - wave viral menin...

Restless legs syndrome has several names that you can also meet: Willis disease, Ekbooma disease. All these terms refer to a state where unpleasant sensations in the legs or hands cause the movem...

Causes of Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms and Signs Diagnosis Treatment Complications and Prevention Case Histories Multiple sclerosis or, more correctly, disseminated encephalomyelitis is a ...

Every person is aware of the painful state of headache, and 0.1% of the population suffers from the most "hellish" - beam( or "cluster") headache. Most of them are smokers, strong physique of a m...

Myelitis is an infection of the spinal cord. Causes of myelitis Myelitis is divided into primary and secondary. Primary include diseases caused by various neurotropic viruses( Coxsackie, EC...

Hemorrhagic stroke - acute disturbance of cerebral circulation with a breakthrough of blood vessels and cerebral hemorrhage. This is the most serious brain accident. Causes of hemorrhagic s...

Myasthenia gravis is a chronic progressive disease with the presence of crises, characterized by pathological fatigue and muscle weakness. First described in 1672 by Thomas Willis. Currentl...

Tension headache( HDN) is the most common headache. Monotonous, compressive, compressive, tightening, blunt, diffuse, two-sided, "wrapped in a hoop", "as in a helmet", "in a vice", mild to mo...