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What are the causes of Megalencephaly?
Most often, megalencephaly is a familial trait that occurs without extraneural (outside the brain) findings. Familial megalencephaly may occur as an auto-somal dominant (more common) or autosomal recessive condition
What is megalencephaly?
Megalencephaly (also called macrencephaly) describes an enlarged brain whose weight exceeds the mean (the average weight for that age and sex) by at least 2.5 standard deviations (a statistical measure of variation).
What physical abnormalities in the brain are sometimes present in schizophrenics?
These include atrophy or degeneration in some brain areas and enlargement of fluid-filled cavities called ventricles. Schizophrenics also have abnormalities in chemical neurotransmitters the brain normally uses to communicate information
What are 3 ways the brain is related to mental abnormalities?
What are three ways the brain is related to mental abnormalities
What is a brain biopsy?
A brain biopsy is the removal of a small piece of brain tissue for the diagnosis of abnormalities of the brain
What happens in the brain when a child is born with abnormalities?
When a child is born with abnormalities, what happened was before birth, while the baby was developing, the brain was not formed correctly.
How do patients with metastasized melanoma react to therapy?
Treatment for those patients who present with or go on to develop systemic disease usually fails; melanoma that has metastasized to the brain is particularly difficult to treat.
What causes simple partial seizures?
A seizure is caused by a disruption of electrical activity in the brain. There are a variety of causes for this, so it is not a simple question to answer. Different people have different causes for their seizures.
Why do people get psychotic symptoms?
Psychotic symptoms are usually caused by abnormalities in brain chemistry; less often by injury to the brain.
What is the answer to the riddle what does a doctor do to his patients?
brain wash
What does it mean when a patients brain dead?
there dead
What substance in the mothers blood indicates possible abnormalities in the fetal brain and spinal cord?
placentia
