Neurology

Neurology

Neuropathy

Neuroplasticity

Neuropsychology

Neurosis

Neurotic

Neuroticism

Geriatric neurology is a branch of medicine that focuses on diagnosing and treating neurological conditions in older adults. This specialty deals with age-related changes in the nervous system, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and the unique challenges faced by older patients with neurological disorders.

Researchers would be most likely to make use of fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to study brain activity while people recall familiar nursery rhymes. Specific brain areas that might be most active during this task include the language processing centers in the left hemisphere of the brain, such as the Broca's area and Wernicke's area.

That dude back at triage said that this looked like a job for the neurology department.

Neurology is branch of medical science.

The victim of a stroke may require an assessment from someone down in neurology.

Neurology is the study of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles, and of the medical conditions of these organs and structures. This includes such conditions and diseases as dementia, headaches, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease to name a few.

University of California - San Francisco has a great neuroscience program. UCSD @ La Jolla is fantastic with Scripps. Stanford as well. California has the advantage of money for stem cell research, if that's your interest. Harvard and Yale have good programs, but I would go with a school in California. University of California - Irvine, has one of the best undergraduate Neurobiology and Behavior programs with a fantastic upper division laboratory that you would be hard pressed to find something better elsewhere. Northwestern has a good program as well.

Cerebral palsy is not an inherited condition. It is a result of an in jury or change that occurs in the developing brain either before or during birth.

The scientific study hence (ology) of the nervous system, including the Brain and the central nervous system or CNS. Neurology is often linked to mental illness and psychiatry but they are two distinct- but overlappin medical arts, Neurology is an objective science, there are some doubts about what Freud practiced. ( as late as War 2 some Church hospitals were (religiously) opposed to psychiatrists, they did not have them at Saint Mary"s in Hoboken.

I believe that neurology mostly deals with anatomy. As a matter of fact, mastering neuroanatomy is a must for a neurologist to be able to point out the most likely place throughout the neural axis to explain a group of symptoms (and we neurologists are somewhat preoccupied -a bit obsessed, to be exact- with this localizing job).

The other branches of medicine that are used in neurology are physiology, biochemistry, histology.

As a branch of internal medicine, mastering basics of internal medicine is also needed.

level of consciousness

Do your best. Just keep trying to exercise your memory. You will probably have to relearn a lot of the stuff. Mainly, you just give it time. Just be patient with yourself.

Paresthesias

It depends on what level you wish to contribute to the field. For instance, with a 3-4 year Bachelor degree you could enter as a technician or lab assistant. Or, if you wanted more control over the experiments you could earn yourself a doctorate, which normally takes at least 3 years to do over and above Bachelors (so 7-8 years), or Bachelors + Masters (8-9 years).

I'm not sure how many case studies there are but my father had a bells palsey episode and then some years later got Parkinsons.

Neurological factors are ones that influence the neurons of the nervous system. These are usually related to availability of nutrients and oxygen, or imbalance of chemicals. Sometimes it refers to a mechanical problem, like pressure on a nerve.

Completing a neurological status of the patient would be a normal physical examination report.

No, Bell's Palsy is not contagious. It is a condition that affects the movements of the muscles in the face by a damaged cranial nerve.

Charles Bell.

The herpes virus thought to cause Bell's Palsy attacks and damages the nerve cells in the trigeminal and/or facial nerves (5th and 6th, respectively) of the cranium. The virus will attack and enter the cell, utilize the cell's reproductive engines to make more copies of itself, and eventually bud (use part of the cell's membrane to form a capsule) out of the cell or simply apoptize (cause bursting) of the cell to release several thousands (or more) copies of itself to attack the surrounding nerve cells.

Yes, any kind of electric shock. Basically from my understanding: When you get shocked, your nerves are 'overdone' and some tend to damage. Not sure if this is correct though. But yes it DOES cause damage

Antiviral medication such as acyclovir can help kill the virus cells that are causing it. Other than that, just time.

Bell's palsy is coined for any type of facial paralysis that does not have any other associated causes such as tumors, trauma and salivary gland inflammation. Recent research has shown that Bell's palsy occurs when a virus (herpes simplex virus, HSV) gets reactivated in the bone behind the ear (temporal bone.) When the nerve gets reactivated and swollen, it ends up causing the nerve to essentially "shut down." This occurs in a very rapid manner and most patients who have Bell's palsy present have acute onset and immediate facial paralysis. Other symptoms of Bell's palsy may include an aura that precedes it or a sensation that your face movement may be inhibited. Patients who have Bell's palsy should go to the emergency room immediately and get evaluated. 85% of people who have Bell's palsy recover with no no noticeable deformity or issue. 10% of individuals have incomplete recovery with synkinesis and partial facial weakness. 5% of the patients have complete facial paralysis and significant synkinesis. In this 5% of individuals, extreme care must be made to make sure that there is not a missing tumor or other causes that may not be related to Bell's palsy.

-Dr Babak Azizzadeh

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Slight or severe paralysis to one side of the face from the eyebrow to the mouth. It is treated with steriods and heals itself in most cases in about a week.

I believe that sufferers normally recover facial muscle tone after about two months sometimes even without any treatment at all.

There is no specific "cure" for Bell's Palsy, other than trying to cure some other condition that is causing inflammation to the Facial Nerve (cranial nerve VII). Treatment in the form of steroids like Prednisone is usually started. in order to lessen the inflammation on the nerve. Once the inflammation is lessened or eliminated, the Facial Nerve will regain its normal function and the palsy will disappear.

While this is not a "cure" for the palsy, facial massages are encouraged as physical therapy in order to keep the facial muscles from atrophying and drooping.