The middle cerebral artery (MCA) is the largest branch of the internal carotid and the commonest site of large-vessel stroke. When the entire proximal M1 trunk ...
Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist
A superior-division infarct of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) is a type of ischemic stroke in which the clot lodges in the superior (frontal-parietal) trunk ...
The middle cerebral artery is the brain’s biggest branch off the internal carotid artery. It supplies most of the outer (lateral) surface of the cerebral ...
A complete (proximal) MCA syndrome happens when the main trunk (M1 segment) of the middle cerebral artery is suddenly blocked or ruptures near its origin. ...
Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) syndrome is the collection of brain problems that appear when blood flow through the MCA suddenly falls or stops. The artery feeds ...
Nutritional Motor Neuropathy (NMN) is a nerve-damage syndrome that develops when the body is deprived of key vitamins, minerals, or overall calories for weeks ...
Critical Illness Motor Neuropathy (CIMN) is an acute, diffuse injury to the motor portions of peripheral nerves that develops in severely ill, usually ...
Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy is a rare, immune-driven attack on the motor nerves that control voluntary muscle movement. It happens because the body tries ...
Toxic motor neuropathy is a nerve-damage disorder in which chemicals, drugs, or biological toxins selectively attack the motor fibers that control muscle ...
Diabetic motor neuropathy is a form of nerve damage that strikes the big motor nerves powering your muscles rather than (or long before) the small sensory ...
Immune-mediated motor neuropathy (IMMN) is an umbrella term for a small group of rare disorders in which the body’s own immune system mistakenly attacks the ...
Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy—often shortened to dHMN—is a group of inherited nerve disorders in which the longest, most distant motor nerves slowly ...
Distal Axonal Motor Neuropathy (often shortened to DAMN or simply “distal motor axonal neuropathy”) is a nerve-wasting disorder in which the long, thin ...
Critical-Illness Motor Axonopathy (CIMA) is the pure motor, axonal form of the broader syndrome called critical-illness polyneuropathy and myopathy (CIP/CIM). ...
Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy (PMN) is a rare, immune-mediated nerve disorder triggered by an underlying, often hidden cancer. It causes slowly progressive ...
Diabetic distal motor neuropathy (DDMN) is a form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in which chronically high blood-sugar levels damage the longest motor nerve ...
Pure Motor CIDP is a rare immune-mediated disorder in which your own immune system attacks the myelin sheath—the protective “insulation” around peripheral ...
Distal Acquired Demyelinating Symmetric Neuropathy (DADS) is an uncommon, slow-moving variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy ...
MMN, sometimes called “multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block,” is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy. In plain English, your body’s defence system ...
Occipital Horn Syndrome (OHS) is a rare, inherited connective-tissue and copper-transport disorder caused by harmful changes (pathogenic variants) in the ATP7A ...
