What is hypertelorism?
Hypertelorism is a medical condition characterised by an increase in the distance between two paired organs above the average norm. Most cases are described when the distance between the eye sockets...
Electroencephalography (EEG): what is worth knowing about this test?
One of the basic tests used in neurology is electroencephalography (EEG). Individual cells, which belong to the nervous system, communicate with each other by means of electrical impulses and during...
Gluing broken bones together - is it possible?
Doctors from Brno University Hospital and scientists at the CEITEC research centre have developed a special adhesive that could help with bone fractures in the future. So far, they have tested it on...
How does obesity affect the brain?
The fact that obesity negatively affects the functioning of many organs in the human body has not been known for a long time. Recently, specialists from the Dutch Leiden University Medical Center...
Paresthesias - what is it and when should it be of concern?
Paresthesias are feelings of numbness, tingling in the skin of an area of the body. They can be an innocent, completely and spontaneously regressing condition resulting from pressure on a peripheral...
How to take painkillers wisely?
No medicine should be taken without a reason. Reaching for painkillers without a reason and abusing them can lead to addiction and many serious symptoms from the body. So how do you take painkillers...
Intracranial aneurysms - risks and treatment
Intracranial aneurysms are at risk of rupture, which can lead to serious disability or even death due to subarachnoid haemorrhage. They can be detected by imaging methods such as angiography and CT...
Intracranial aneurysms - what are they and how do they manifest?
General characteristics of intracranial aneurysms, their incidence and the symptoms they cause.
Hallervorden-Spatz disease and its consequences
Degenerative diseases of the nervous system are extremely rare disease entities. One of these is the genetically determined Hallervorden-Spatz disease. What are the symptoms of the disease? Who does...
Influencing histamine levels as a way of improving memory?
Histamine is mainly associated with its involvement in allergic reactions, but in fact this compound has many other effects in the human body. It turns out that histamine is also a neurotransmitter,...
Prosopagnosia, or when the patient stops recognising loved ones
Prosopagnosia is a condition that affects very few people. Its main symptom is a developing problem with face recognition. How does the disease develop, and what are the treatments?
Do we know all types of human nerve cells? Most likely not!
The human brain is considered to be unique - for good reason, but what makes our functioning so different from that of animals is still not really known. It is for this reason that various scientists...
Reimbursement of the world's first therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy (SA) is a neurodegenerative disorder where the underlying cause of the disease is genetic. This extremely rare disease occurs on average in one person per 5 000 to 7 000...
Childhood poverty can affect brain health
Researchers from the Czech National Institute of Mental Health (Národního ústavu duševního zdraví - NUDZ) have indicated that poverty has a major impact on human health.The results were published in...
Infrasensory and hypersensory disorders
Sensory disturbances are one of the symptoms produced by diseases of the nervous system. Palsy and hypersensitivity belong to a group of neurological conditions. Do you know what these conditions are...
A diet rich in magnesium
Magnesium is one of the most important elements - it regulates and controls the human body. The human body is made up of cells that are constantly 'monitored' in all their functions, such as...
Have those nerve cells that are directly responsible for aggression been discovered?
Although there are still some aspects of the functioning of the nervous system that remain unclear, thanks to numerous studies, knowledge of the system that controls our organism is becoming...
Melnick-Needles syndrome - what you should know about it
Rare diseases are conditions that occur more often than we think. One rare disease is Melnick-Needles syndrome. The mutation that causes the disease affects the functioning of the whole body. How is...
European Patients' Rights Day
18 April 2006 was established as European Patients' Rights Day. This holiday is celebrated in all countries of the European Union with the aim of raising awareness or reminding patients of their...
Restless legs syndrome
Restless legs syndrome is a relatively common affliction of the population of European countries. The most characteristic symptom is an unpleasant sensation in the form of a compulsion to move the...
