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The lower, much thinner part is the rostrum and is connected below with the lamina terminalis, which stretches from the interventricular foramina to the recess at the base of the optic stalk. The rostrum is named for its resemblance to a bird's beak. The end part of the corpus callosum, towards the cerebellum, is called the splenium.
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 ...
Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for several kinds of hard, beak-like structures projecting out from the head or mouth of an animal. Despite some visual similarity, many of these are phylogenetically unrelated structures in widely varying species.
Times article reported on the brain autopsies and cited CJDSS director Coulthart, who said that the three autopsies were negative "for known forms of prion disease". [13] The article said that the federal-provincial health authorities team included "neurologists, epidemiologists, environmentalists and veterinarians" and that "a team of ...
The name of the condition includes the word "posterior" because it predominantly, though not exclusively, affects the back of the brain (the parietal and occipital lobes). Common underlying causes are severely elevated blood pressure, kidney failure, severe infections, certain medications, some autoimmune diseases, and pre-eclampsia.
An athlete’s risk of developing brain disease from head trauma is not just limited to CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Research shows repeated brain injuries, even those considered mild ...
However, unknown to his doctors, his disease caused locked-in syndrome, a rare and serious neurological disorder where damage to the brain stem leads to complete paralysis over all voluntary ...
Susac's syndrome is a very rare disease, of unknown cause, and many persons who experience it do not display the bizarre symptoms named here. Their speech can be affected, such as the case of a female of late teens who suffered speech issues and hearing problems, and many experience unrelenting and intense headaches and migraines, some form of ...