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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 ...
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]
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]
Electroencephalogram (EEG) is used to distinguish kuru from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a similar encephalopathy (any disease that affects the structure of the brain). [28] EEGs search for electrical activity in the person's brain and measure the frequency of each wave to determine if there is an issue with the brain's activity. [ 29 ]
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 ...
A skull showing evidence of trepanning. Prehistoric medicine is any use of medicine from before the invention of writing and the documented history of medicine.Because the timing of the invention of writing per culture and region, the term "prehistoric medicine" encompasses a wide range of time periods and dates.
Woodend’s 10-year run as the GEICO “Caveman” ended at the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea. His most recent journey has taken him to USI. He and his wife, Kelli Lynn, a ...
Cerebellar ataxia with neuropathy and vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) is an autosomal recessive late-onset heredodegenerative multisystem neurological disease. The symptoms include poor balance and difficulty walking. Chronic cough and difficulty swallowing may also be present.