Category: Rx Neurology (A – Z)

Traumatic Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) is a serious form of brain injury that occurs when rapid acceleration–deceleration forces stretch, twist, or tear the delicate...

An arcuate fasciculus injury occurs when the white matter tract that connects Broca’s area in the frontal lobe to Wernicke’s area in the temporal...

Callosal Disconnection Syndrome, often called “Split-Brain Syndrome,” occurs when the corpus callosum—the wide bundle of nerve fibers connecting the left and right halves of...

Delayed-Onset Diencephalic Syndrome is a rare disorder arising from dysfunction of the diencephalon—a region of the brain that includes the thalamus, hypothalamus, subthalamus, and...

Infantile Diencephalic Syndrome (also called Russell’s syndrome) is a rare neurological disorder of early childhood characterized by profound weight loss and failure to thrive...

Neonatal-Onset Diencephalic Syndrome (NODS) is a rare and serious condition affecting newborn infants, characterized by profound weight loss and failure to thrive despite normal...

Paraneoplastic diencephalic syndrome (PDS) is a rare immune‐mediated disorder in which the body’s immune response to a remote cancer mistakenly attacks diencephalic structures—principally the...

Classic Diencephalic Syndrome (CDS) is a rare pediatric disorder characterized by severe failure to thrive despite normal or slightly reduced caloric intake, accompanied by...

Diencephalic syndrome is a rare condition seen most often in infants and young children. It is caused by disturbances in the diencephalon, a deep...

Posterior Choroidal Thalamic Syndrome refers to a rare pattern of thalamic infarction caused by occlusion of the posterior choroidal artery (PChA), a branch of...

Inferolateral (thalamogeniculate) thalamic syndrome is a type of thalamic stroke resulting from infarction or hemorrhage in the territory of the thalamogeniculate arteries, which arise...

Paramedian thalamic syndrome, also called paramedian thalamic infarction, is a neurological condition that arises when blood flow to the medial (paramedian) region of the...

Anterior (tuberothalamic) thalamic syndrome is a rare neurological condition that occurs when blood flow is interrupted in the tuberothalamic (polar) artery, a branch of...

Diffuse Brainstem Central Pain (DBCP) is a chronic neuropathic pain syndrome arising from injury or dysfunction that spans multiple levels of the brainstem—including the...

Trigeminal Central Pain is a chronic facial pain caused by damage to the brain or brainstem pathways that carry signals from the trigeminal nerve....

Midbrain Central Pain, often referred to as central pain syndrome localized to the midbrain, is a chronic neurological condition in which damage to the...

Pontine central pain is a type of neuropathic pain that occurs when the pons—a key part of the brainstem—suffers injury or disease. In this...

Lateral medullary central pain is a form of central neuropathic pain that arises after an infarction of the lateral medulla oblongata—often called Wallenberg syndrome....

Spinal Central Pain is a form of central neuropathic pain that arises specifically from damage to or dysfunction of the spinal cord portion of...

Brainstem central pain is a type of central neuropathic pain that happens when the part of your nervous system in the brainstem is injured...