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The exact pathophysiological causes of the disease are currently unclear, but there are developing theories. [8] Spongy degeneration can be diagnosed with neuroimaging techniques and urine examination. [9] There is no current treatment for spongy degeneration, but research utilising gene therapy to treat the disease is underway. [8]
Canavan disease, or Canavan–Van Bogaert–Bertrand disease, is a rare and fatal autosomal recessive [1] degenerative disease that causes progressive damage to nerve cells and loss of white matter in the brain. [2] It is one of the most common degenerative cerebral diseases of infancy. [3]
Cerebellar abiotrophy (CA), also called cerebellar cortical abiotrophy (CCA), is a genetic neurological disease in animals, best known to affect certain breeds of horses, dogs and cats. It can also develop in humans. It develops when the neurons known as Purkinje cells, located in the cerebellum of the brain, begin to die off. These cells ...
Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c. 1488–1516). Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French from Medieval Latin trepanum from Greek trúpanon, literally "borer, auger"), [1] [2] is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or ...
Cook would soon be diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive life-threatening brain cancer that can strike anyone at any age, the National Brain Tumor Society warns. There is no cure. There is no ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
The program, a pilot study, was looking for Cavaliers like Billy with an advanced case of a degenerative heart condition called mitral valve disease. Early Results Of Dog Longevity Treatment Show ...
A viral disease of unknown origin. When a human is infected with wildfire, the disease will infect all cells and lay dormant until the host dies. After the victim's clinical death, the host will be reanimated and exhibit zombie-like behavior. However the disease will only activate lower brain function, mostly those controlled by the brain-stem ...