Neurologic Diseases (original) (raw)

Also called: Nervous system diseases

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Summary

The brain, spinal cord, and nerves make up the nervous system. Together they control all the workings of the body. When something goes wrong with a part of your nervous system, you can have trouble moving, speaking, swallowing, breathing, or learning. You can also have problems with your memory, senses, or mood.

There are more than 600 neurologic diseases. Major types include:

• Diseases caused by faulty genes, such as Huntington's disease and muscular dystrophy
• Problems with the way the nervous system develops, such as spina bifida
• Degenerative diseases, where nerve cells are damaged or die, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease
• Diseases of the blood vessels that supply the brain, such as stroke
• Injuries to the spinal cord and brain
• Seizure disorders, such as epilepsy
• Cancer, such as brain tumors
• infections, such as meningitis

Start Here

• What Does the Nervous System Do? (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Also in Spanish

• Trouble With Touch? Feeling Your World (National Institutes of Health) Also in Spanish

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Nervous System Diseases (National Institutes of Health)

• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Also in Spanish

• Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) collection (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish

• EEG (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish