Each of us felt tired after a hard day's work or hard mental work. After a rest at a healthy person fatigue passes, and the forces are completely restored. However, it can happen that a person c...

Heart and vascular diseases occupy the first place in the structure of mortality of the population. The most common diagnosis - arterial hypertension - is put in almost half the cases to patient...

Since the most common reason for patients to seek medical attention is pain, the doctor's task is not only to establish the cause, but also to eliminate the pain, and if possible, to do it as qui...

Down Syndrome is a genetic disorder in which the karyotype consists of 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46. When the germ cells are formed during meiosis, the pair chromosomes must diverge, b...

What is it: hemiparesis, hemiplegia - a disease that is one of the branches of extensive pathologies related to the classification of paresis or paralysis. Is the result of the defeat of higher ...

The atrophy of the fronto-temporal areas is a degenerative disease that occurs mainly in older people and leads to the development of dementia. According to statistical data, this kind of dege...

Encephalitis is a disease of an infectious, allergic, toxic nature, in which an inflammation of the brain substance occurs. It can be primary, that is, an independent disease, and secondary, tha...

Pulmonary hypertension is a dangerous disease that, in the absence of treatment, leads to death in a few years. In most cases, the etiology of primary pulmonary hypertension is unknown. Often th...

Stroke is a sudden development of ischemia that occurs in the brain as a result of blockage of the vessel, or hemorrhage. The risk of this condition increases with age, and the death rate from st...

Brain hydrocephalus is a violation of the circulation of fluid in the brain, which leads to excessive accumulation of the fluid. Increases intracranial pressure, respectively - there is excessiv...

Aphasia is a pathological condition associated with disorders of the structures of the central nervous system and is expressed in a violation of the ability to express thoughts, speak, and unders...

For amnestic aphasia is characterized by a loss of ability to name things and phenomena. It is important to consider that the ability to describe them does not lose the patient. Also, a person do...

The human nervous system is based on the "cooperation" of conditioned and unconditioned reflexes. The modern complete classification of reflexes will help to understand them. Knowledge of refl...

Ataxia is a violation of consistency in the work of the muscle group responsible for coordination. This is reflected in the difficulty of keeping the patient in balance during standing, walking a...

To protect the human brain from traumatic factors, nature has created for him a reliable protection - the skull. The brain is located in the skull and is surrounded by a cavity between the medul...

One of the most complex and rare anomalies is Wilson-Konovalov's disease, named after its researchers. This disease is characterized by a violation of the copper balance in the body. Over time, t...

Atrophy of the heart muscle is a pathological process that does not have an inflammatory nature, as a result of which a change in the structure of myocardial cells occurs. The second name for thi...

Apraxia, translated from Greek, means "inaction", characterized by a violation of the performance of targeted or arbitrary movements of varying complexity. Any human activity, carried out cons...