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Brain disorder: An umbrella term for medical conditions describing a significant deviation in brain structure or function from what is typical for our species. [e]
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Parent topics
- Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Disease [r]: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. [e]
- Pathology [r]: The medical specialty that is expert in the use of laboratory methods to support clinicians in diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis [e]
- Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. [e]
- Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
Subtopics
- Neurodegenerative disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dementia [r]: Progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities. [e]
- Alzheimer's disease [r]: A degenerative disease of the brain characterized by the insidious onset of dementia; manifests itself in impairment of memory, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills, followed by severe apraxias and a global loss of cognitive abilities. [e]
- Dementia [r]: Progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities. [e]
- Neurodevelopmental disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. [e]
- Autism [r]: Developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. [e]
- Dyslexia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain cancer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain trauma [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epilepsia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brain development [r]: The build-up of the brain from ectodermal cells to a complex structure of neurons, glia and blood vessels. [e]
- Brain morphometry [r]: The quantitative study of structures in the brain, their differences between individuals, correlations with brain function, and changes of these characteristics over time. [e]
- Brain evolution [r]: The process by which the central nervous system changed over many generations. [e]