Category: Rx Neurology (A – Z)

A substance use disorder (SUD) is a mental disorder that affects a person’s brain and behavior, leading to a person’s inability to control their...

Mental Health Medications can play a role in treating several mental disorders and conditions. Treatment may also include psychotherapy (also called “talk therapy”) and brain stimulation...

Brain stimulation therapy can play a role in treating certain mental disorders. Brain stimulation therapies involve activating or inhibiting the brain directly with electricity....

Crossed Brainstem Syndromes/Brainstem stroke syndromes, also known as crossed brainstem syndromes, refer to a group of syndromes that occur secondary to lesions, most commonly infarcts,...

Brainstem stroke syndromes, also known as crossed brainstem syndromes, refer to a group of syndromes that occur secondary to lesions, most commonly infarcts, of the...

Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder is a progressive, neurodegenerative, heterogeneous group of non-Alzheimer dementias disorder characterized by loss of intellectual functions, such as memory problems, impaired...

Child Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a group of disorders that affect a person’s ability to move and maintain balance and posture. CP is the...

Dementia is a syndrome of chronic progressive cognitive decline, a neurodegenerative brain disorder that is characterized by cognitive decline involving memory and at least...

Epilepsies are chronic neurological disorders in which clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain sometimes signal abnormally and cause seizures. Neurons normally...

Pick disease, also known as frontotemporal dementia is a progressive, neurodegenerative, heterogeneous group of non-Alzheimer dementias disorder characterized by loss of intellectual functions, such...

Frontotemporal dementia is a progressive, neurodegenerative, heterogeneous group of non-Alzheimer dementias disorder characterized by loss of intellectual functions, such as memory problems, impaired abstract...

Frontotemporal dementia is a progressive, neurodegenerative, heterogeneous group of non-Alzheimer dementias disorder characterized by loss of intellectual functions, such as memory problems, impaired abstract...

Headache Disorders /These patients may also complain of shoulder or neck muscle tightness as well as sleep disturbances. Symptoms of nausea, vomiting, photophobia or...

Chronic headaches are headaches that occur for at least 15 days of a month for at least three months. There are a variety of...

Migraine Headache/Migraine is a genetically influenced complex disorder characterized by episodes of moderate-to-severe headache, most often unilateral and generally associated with nausea and light...

Huntington’s disease (HD), a neurodegenerative autosomal dominant disorder, is characterized by involuntary choreatic movements with cognitive and behavioral disturbances. It occurs as a result...

Lewy Body Dementia/It is a progressive degenerative brain disorder characterized by cognitive decline involving memory and at least 1 of the other domains, including...