Contemporary Neurosurgery
Modern Neurosurgery deals with problems of operational and non-operational treatment of a fairly wide range of diseases of the nervous system. This includes the treatment of tumors of the brain and spinal cord injuries and central nervous system and peripheral nerves, infection of the nervous system, abnormalities of development.
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Parkinsons disease - primary parkinsonism
Parkinson's disease - one of the most complex neurological disorders. Its cause remains a mystery to this day. However, in this area is active research.
For the first time the disease was described in 1817 by British physician James Parkisonom. In the early 60s of last century, re
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Causes of Parkinsons disease
Parkinson's disease occurs when certain nerve cells in a brain region known as the substantia nigra die or not to perform its function. Normally, these cells produce important substances such as dopamine. Dopamine - a chemical that is responsible for the transmission of nerve signals between the substantia nigra and the next
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Early symptoms of Parkinson's disease
Early symptoms of Parkinson's disease begin gradually. Usually the patient feels fatigue, general malaise. Some people can celebrate unsteadiness of gait, difficulty standing up from his chair. In patients with marked twang, small trembling hand. In addition, a loss of thoughts, words in a sentence. Patients may be irritable or dep
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Diagnosis of Parkinsons disease
In the early stages of Parkinson's disease, even an experienced neurologist can be quite difficult to diagnose this disease. There are no laboratory tests to help diagnose Parkinson's disease, so far yet. Your doctor should monitor the patient some time to reveal that tremor is constant and is related to other other classic symptoms of th
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Therapeutic treatment of Parkinsons disease
Currently, Parkinson's disease remains incurable. However, existing treatments to help cope with the large number of manifestations of this disease.
Drug treatment is not required in all patients, but only when symptoms are persistent and interfere with normal l
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Surgical treatment of Parkinsons disease
Prior to the use of levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson's disease surgical treatment was used quite often. However, after the treatment of Parkinson's disease began to use levodopa, surgical treatment were used were used less frequently. At present, surgical treatment is used in patients with advanced disease and in patients w
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