Huntington's disease.This inherited nerve disorder damages your brain cells. Dementia and difficulty controlling movements (chorea) are some of its symptoms. Early signs include mood swings, depression, and being easily irritated. Pick's disease(frontotemporal dementia).If you have this brain disorder...
Cerebral infarction:Infarction refers to death of tissue. A cerebral infarction, or stroke, is a brain lesion in which a cluster of brain cells die when they don't get enough blood. Recognize thesigns and symptoms of a stroke. Cerebral palsy:This type of brain lesion occurs when a baby is...
Addresses the key questions in modern schizophrenia research including how abnormalities of the brain produce the characteristic signs and symptoms of this most severe and mysterious mental malady, where these abnormalities are, and how they develop.David A S...
malfunction, or destruction of brain cells or brain tissue. A lesion may be localized to one part of the brain, or it may be widespread. The initial damage may be so small as to not produce any initial symptoms but progresses
Surgeryis the most frequent approach to treating brain tumours. Such surgery may be curative for some cancers, but for others it may only relievesymptomsand prolong survival. In many cases, complete removal of the tumour is not possible. ...
"Playing when you have not completely recovered from a concussion is dangerous and could be deadly," said GIll. "Become familiar with the signs/symptoms of concussions, and if you think you or a teammate has a concussion speak up. It's actually a law (Zackery Lystedt Law) now that playe...
Elderly people short on social ties exhibit warning signs of dementia, including rapid memory loss and problems processing, learning and recognizing novel information.缺乏社交联系的老年人会表现出痴呆症的预警信号，出现记忆力迅速衰退，处理、学习和识别新信息障碍的问题。Furthermore, when you don't ...
What AreSymptomsand Signs of Brain Cancer? Not all brain tumors cause symptoms, and some (such as tumors of the pituitary gland, some of which cause no symptoms) are found mainly after death, with the death not caused by the brain tumor. The symptoms of brain tumors are numerous and not...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have wide-ranging physical and psychological effects. Some signs or symptoms may appear immediately after the traumatic event, while others may appear days or weeks later. Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) may affect your brain cells temporarily. More-serious traum...
Common signs and symptoms of concussion include: Loss of consciousness after any traumato the head Confusion Headache Nauseaorvomiting Blurred vision Loss of short-term memory(you may not remember the actual injury and the events some time before or after the impact) ...