Athetosis is a hyperkinesis of extrapyramidal origin. It occupies the middle position between such types of pathological involuntary muscle contractions as dystonia and chorea. Characteristic ...

Brain atrophy is a pathological process in which the death of its cells, neural connections and neural structures is gradually occurring. The process can affect the cortex and some subcortical fo...

Spinocerebellar degeneration implies a combined concept of a whole complex of diseases, which are based on disorders of the structures of the spinal cord, trunk and cerebellum. Symptoms of...

The cerebral cortex is an organic brain damage, unofficial and popular in the people's name hydrocephalus. The essence of the disease - in violation of the balance of cerebrospinal fluid, w...

Hydrocephalus of the brain, or as the common people call this disease - dropsy, represents an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid( CSF) in the subshell space of the brain and in its ve...

It can not be said with certainty that hydrocephalus is such a widespread disease. If we keep statistics among the adult population, especially in the elderly, in most cases the disease may not ...

Bronchial atrophy is a phenomenon of pathological changes and thinning of mucosal tissues with subsequent replacement of it with a connective one. Atrophic changes occur only in the presence of t...

Inflammation of the trigeminal nerve, in other words neuralgia is a chronic pathology, a syndrome manifested by sudden, shooting, short-term, periodic pain along one or several branches of the trig...

Hydrocephalus is a disease characterized by excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain. As a rule, such a pathological condition is associated with increased intracranial pressur...

Spine - the basis of the skeleton and the support of the entire body, it consists of separate vertebrae and located between the elastic discs. The disk is a protein ring, inside of which is lo...

Therapeutic physical training with neurological diseases Therapeutic gymnastics is a complex of exercises for the majority of chronic human diseases associated with the loss of muscle stren...

Physiotherapy - what is it? Physiotherapy is a treatment with natural and physical factors: heat and cold, ultrasound, electric current, magnetic field, laser, ultraviolet, infrared and oth...

What it is? Pituitary adenoma is benign in most cases, a slowly growing endocrine system tumor located in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland and manifested by hypo- or hypersecretion of hormo...

Meningitis is the development of the inflammatory process in the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Any of the three shells can be affected in any of its lengths, and the substance of...

Atrophy of the muscles of the hand is most often a secondary pathological process that begins when there is a underlying disease and results from a violation of the blood supply and nutrition of ...

Frequent pain in the head, a feeling of heaviness in the neck, dizziness, nausea and vomiting - these are signs of the syndrome of the vertebral artery symptoms. If all these signs are ignore...

One of the most serious genetic abnormalities today is Gaucher's disease. This disease is characterized by a violation of lipid metabolism in the human body. Features of the disease Accordi...

Trigeminal neuralgia or trigeminal neuralgia is a disease that is described as one of the most painful types of pain known to mankind. Most often the pain binds the jaw and lower part o...