Diseases of the nervous system (neurology)

Sleep disorders in the elderly

It is well known that sleep changes with age, but it is still not proven whether these changes are part of normal aging or pathology. And one of the reasons for the uncertainty may be due to different lifestyles in regions, differences among individuals.

A brain cyst

A brain cyst is a general name for benign neoplasms in the structures of the brain. Two types of cysts are most often encountered in neurosurgical practice: arachnoid and cerebral formations.

Coma

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

Convulsive syndrome

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 (Erb-Joly disease) - a neuromuscular disease accompanied by muscle weakness and fatigue.

Myelopathic syndrome

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

Cerebellar damage

Cerebellar damage is a symptom complex of pathological conditions caused by damage to the cerebellum or the membranes of the brain in the posterior cranial fossa (trauma, infarction, tumor, leptomeningitis).

Neuralgia

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

What's a lobotomy?

What is lobotomy? It is a long-forgotten and ostracized method by modern psychiatrists. In Russia, lobotomy was forgotten starting in 1950, when this psychosurgical method was banned, while across the ocean, in the USA, up to five thousand similar operations were performed that same year.