Diseases of the nervous system (neurology)

Sleep disorders in the elderly

Everyone knows that changes in sleep occur with age, but it has not been proven until now whether these changes are part of normal aging or pathology. And one of the reasons for the ambiguity may be due to the different way of life in the regions, the differences among individuals.

Cyst of the brain

The cyst of the brain is the common name of benign neoplasms in the structures of the brain. Most often in neurosurgical practice there are two types of cysts - arachnoid and cerebral formation.

Coma

Coma is a deep loss of consciousness. A coma is not a diagnosis, but just like a shock, an indication of a critical condition of the body caused by a certain pathology. Some types of coma are combined with each other and shock.

Convulsive syndrome

A convulsive syndrome is a symptom complex that develops with involuntary contraction of striated or smooth muscles.

Agony

Agony is the final stage of life before irreversible processes of dying occur in the body (that is, the transition from clinical to biological death).

Myasthenic syndrome

Myasthenic syndrome is characteristic of myasthenia gravis (Erba-Joly disease) - neuromuscular disease, accompanied by muscle weakness and fatigue.

Myelopathic syndrome

Myelopathic syndrome includes a symptom complex caused by damage to the membranes, substance, roots of the spinal cord due to various pathological conditions.

Cerebrovascular disease

The defeat of the cerebellum is a symptomatic complex of pathological conditions caused by damage to its or the membranes of the brain of the posterior cranial fossa (trauma, infarcts, swelling, leptomeningitis).

Neuralgia

Neuralgia is pain that spreads along the nerve or its branches, sometimes with hyperesthesia of its innervation zone. Most often, the initial stage of damage to the peripheral nerve or its spine.

What is lobotomy?

What is lobotomy? This is a long-forgotten and ostracized method by modern psychiatrists. In Russia, what is the lobotomy began to be forgotten, since 1950, when this psychosurgical method was banned, while overseas, in the US in the same year conducted up to five thousand such operations.

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