Diseases of the nervous system (neurology)

Oxygen starvation of the brain in adults and children: signs, consequences, how to treat

The brain is the organ that needs oxygen the most. A quarter of all inhaled air goes to serving the brain's need for it, and 4 minutes without it become critical for life.

Persistent dizziness in women and men with weakness, nausea, headache

Many of us have at least once in our lives experienced such an unpleasant condition as dizziness. Noise in the ears, sudden weakness, the floor "runs away" from under our feet, the surrounding environment seems to move in a circle - all this is felt by a person who is dizzy.

Tremor of the head in adults and children: how to get rid of, folk remedies, pills, exercises

If a person has uncontrollable rhythmic twitching or shaking of the head, then they say that they have a "head tremor." This term is used for any involuntary vibrations of varying amplitude - from trembling to slow swaying.

Agraphia

The ability to express thoughts on paper, and even just write words correctly, combines several functions: speech, information perception, and motor. A violation of this ability, up to its complete loss, while maintaining hand motor skills and intelligence, is called agraphia (literally, the denial of writing).

Congenital and unilateral anosmia: how to treat it

Complete loss of the sense of smell – anosmia – is a disorder of the olfactory sensory system and occurs for various reasons, being a symptom of a fairly large number of diseases.

Meteosensitivity and meteolability: what to do, how to fight?

The concepts of “meteorological sensitivity” and “meteorological lability”, used to describe the human body’s reaction to changes in weather conditions and climate, are mistakenly considered by many people to be synonyms.

Holoprosencephaly in the fetus and newborn: causes and prognosis

A relatively rare disorder, holoprosencephaly, is a disorder of intrauterine development that involves the absence or underdevelopment of the septum in the anterior cerebral vesicle – that is, the forebrain does not have a clear division into two hemispheres.

Pachymeningitis

As is known, the human brain consists of several membranes - these are the hard, vascular and arachnoid membranes, which are endowed with certain important functions. The inflammatory process can occur under certain circumstances in any of them. Today we will talk about inflammation in the hard membrane, which in medical circles is called "pachymeningitis".

Sterile form of dysarthria: characterization, treatment, prognosis

Sometimes we meet people, including children, whose speech is difficult to understand because it is indistinct, monotonous, without intonations and voice modulations. In addition, other behavioral features are noticeable.

Progressive cerebral palsy: clinical forms, course of stages

A special form of neurosyphilis, causing severe consequences for the entire body, is progressive paralysis. Let's consider the causes of the pathology and methods of its treatment.