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12 Cranial Nerves/The cranial nerves provide afferent and efferent (sensory, motor, and autonomic) innervation to the structures of the head and neck. Unlike spinal nerves whose...
Read articleThe abducens nerve is a crucial part of our body’s nervous system, responsible for controlling the movement of our eyes. However, when this nerve undergoes atrophy,...
Read articleAbducens nerve cancer, also known as abducens nerve schwannoma or abducens nerve glioma, is a rare type of tumor that affects the sixth cranial nerve. This...
Read articleAbducens nerve compression occurs when the sixth cranial nerve, responsible for controlling eye movement, is squeezed or damaged. This condition can lead to various symptoms affecting...
Read articleAbducens nerve degeneration is a condition that affects the sixth cranial nerve, which controls the movement of the eye. This article aims to provide a clear...
Read articleAbducens nerve diseases affect the sixth cranial nerve, responsible for controlling eye movement. These conditions can lead to various symptoms, affecting vision and overall health. Understanding...
Read articleAbducens nerve disorders can cause problems with eye movement, leading to various symptoms and difficulties. Understanding the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for these disorders...
Read articleAbducens nerve dysfunction, also known as sixth nerve palsy or cranial nerve VI dysfunction, affects the nerve responsible for controlling the movement of the lateral rectus...
Read articleAbducens nerve dysfunction and ischemia are medical conditions that affect different parts of the body but can have significant impacts on a person’s health and wellbeing....
Read articleAbducens nerve lesions can lead to various difficulties in eye movement and coordination. Understanding the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for these lesions is crucial...
Read articleAbducens nerve malformation is a condition affecting the sixth cranial nerve, which controls the movement of the eye. When this nerve is not functioning properly due...
Read articleAbducens nerve neuralgia, often referred to as sixth nerve neuralgia, is a condition that affects the sixth cranial nerve, responsible for controlling the movement of the...
Read articleBilateral parasagittal parieto-occipital polymicrogyria (BPPo-PMG) is a rare brain-development problem where the cortex forms too many tiny folds (polymicrogyria) along the midline (parasagittal) parts of the...
Read articleMicrocephaly, short stature, and polymicrogyria with seizures describes a child with three key features. First, the head size is small for age and sex (microcephaly). Doctors...
Read articleDiffuse polymicrogyria (PMG) is a brain-development problem in which the outer layer of the brain (the cortex) forms too many very small folds and the normal...
Read articleBilateral generalized polymicrogyria (BGP) is a brain development problem that starts before birth. In BGP, the outer layer of the brain (the cortex) forms too many...
Read articleFrontoparietal polymicrogyria (FPP) is a problem in how the brain’s outer layer (the cortex) formed before birth. “Polymicrogyria” means “many small folds.” In FPP, these extra,...
Read articleComplex cortical dysplasia with other brain malformations 14A, often shortened to CDCBM14A, is a rare, inherited brain-development disorder. Before birth, the outer layer of the brain...
Read articleBilateral frontal polymicrogyria is a rare brain malformation that forms before birth. “Polymicrogyria” means “too many small folds” on the brain surface. In this condition, the...
Read articleOtitic hydrocephalus is a rare, serious complication of a middle-ear or mastoid infection in which pressure inside the skull (intracranial pressure) rises even though brain scans...
Read articleNonne–Froin (Froin’s) syndrome happens when CSF can’t move freely because something is blocking the spinal canal or severely irritating the meninges (the coverings of the brain...
Read articleNoninfective serous meningitis means inflammation of the meninges (the thin coverings of the brain and spinal cord) with no bacteria growing on routine cultures and with...
Read articleBenign Familial Neonatal-Infantile Seizures 1 (BFNIS1) is a genetic epilepsy syndrome in which seizures start very early in life—anytime from the first days after birth up...
Read articleBenign angiitis of the central nervous system means inflammation of blood vessels inside the brain and spinal cord. “Benign” is an old word and not accurate,...
Read articleFamilial cortical myoclonic tremor with epilepsy is a rare, inherited brain disorder. It causes tiny, shock-like muscle jerks that look like a shaky tremor, mostly in...
Read articleBehrens-Baumann–Dust syndrome is a very rare, inherited condition that mainly affects the eyes and the brain. It was first described in two siblings who had small...
Read articleBehavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a progressive brain disorder that mainly damages the frontal and temporal lobes, the regions that control behavior, judgment, empathy, motivation,...
Read articleMigraine with brainstem aura is a kind of migraine where the warning signs (called aura) come from the brainstem—the deep part of the brain that helps...
Read articleBasilar migraine is the older name for migraine with brainstem aura. It is a migraine in which the “warning phase” (the aura) comes from the brainstem—an...
Read articleBasal ganglia calcification, idiopathic, childhood-onset means calcium-like deposits build up inside deep brain areas called the basal ganglia (and sometimes the thalamus, cerebellum, and cortex) in...
Read articleSalt-losing tubular disorder (often called salt-losing nephropathy) means the kidneys’ tiny tubes (tubules) cannot reabsorb enough salt (mainly sodium and chloride) back into the blood. Because...
Read articleCOFS syndrome is a very rare, inherited, progressive disorder that starts before birth and affects the brain, eyes, face, and skeleton. Babies are usually born with...
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