Dizziness - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Dizziness is a common and well-known ailment of people of all ages. It is not a disease but a symptom experienced by each patient individually. There may be many reasons for their occurrence and,...
How to recognise a stroke?
Stroke, according to the WHO, is a clinical syndrome characterised by the sudden onset of localised, sometimes generalised, brain dysfunction.
Headaches in pregnant women
A headache in a pregnant woman is not a risk to her or the baby and occurs in most women. The key issue is whether the woman has suffered from headaches before (recurrent) or whether it occurs for...
Akinetic mutism
Akinetic mutism is categorised as a behavioural disorder in the course of various diseases and dysfunctions of the central nervous system.
Diagnosis of narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological condition categorised as hypersomnia (a disorder associated with excessive sleepiness).
Kimmerli's anomaly - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Kimmerle's anomaly (a.k.a. arch hole, sagittal hole) is a condition in which the groove of the vertebral artery remains completely or partially obstructed as a result of a calcified ligament or...
Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
We define a transient ischaemic attack (TIA, transient ischaemic attacks) as an interruption of oxygen supply to the brain, involving an area of a single vascularisation, which usually lasts from a...
Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy
Multiple sclerosis (S) is a lifelong inflammatory-demyelinating disease. It also affects women who are of childbearing age. The disease is characterised by damage to nerve conduction, which impairs...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (MND) is a disease that attacks a person's nervous system (both peripheral and central) and leads to slow, gradual muscle atrophy.
Multiple sclerosis and physical activity
Multiple sclerosis is a lifelong disease. The disease is characterised by periods of relapses (worsening of the patient's neurological condition) and remissions (resolution of relapses). It affects...
Sciatica - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Sciatica is a very common condition. Its well-known symptom is severe pain that tends to move and, importantly, radiates along the sciatic nerve. Most often patients feel it in the back of the leg,...
Serotonin syndrome: incidence, symptoms, management
What is serotonin syndrome - a complication of the treatment of depression with drugs with a serotonin mechanism of action, especially from the group of so-called SSRIs. SSRIs(selective serotonin...
Frontotemporal dementia
Research has identified a form of dementia caused by a degenerative process separate from Alzheimer's disease.
Alexia - inability to understand the written word - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
The disorder called alexia is most often acquired rather than congenital. It is an inability to read the written word with an accompanying inability to write. There are cases where it is a...
Tourette syndrome - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Tourette syndrome (TMS) is classified as a congenital neurological disorder. It is a tic disorder. People affected by this condition are not mentally ill and dangerous as once thought. At present, it...
Herpes encephalitis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Viruses are pathogens containing DNA or RNA that are unable to multiply outside the cell. They have the ability to attack the nervous system. There are several syndromes that they cause and these...
Paresis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Paresis is nothing more than a change in muscle strength and a restriction of the range of movement. A paresis is always a sign of a dangerous process developing or taking place in our nervous...
When does cognitive dysfunction begin?
Cognitive functions, otherwise known as cognitive processes, serve to create and modify knowledge about the environment, and this is what models our behaviour.
Bacterial meningitis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Bacterial meningitis is a very dangerous disease that requires necessary hospital treatment. It is an infectious disease that, if untreated, can lead to death. Microorganisms penetrate the...
Leber's optic nerve neuropathy - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Leber hereditary neuropathy of the optic nerve is a mitochondrial disease associated with various types of disorders and abnormalities in the structure and function of mitochondria. The disease is...
