Neurology and Neurosurgery

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• Symptoms and Signs in Neurology

Neurological Symptoms

• Aphasia
• Apraxia
• Agnosia
• Amnesia
• Anosagnosia
• Alexia

Consciousness and Unconsciousness

• Types of Unconsciousness
  • Stupor
  • Coma
  • Vegetative State
  • Locked-In Syndrome
  • Brain Death
• Causes of Unconsciousness
  • Hepatic Encephalopathy
  • Intoxications
  • Trauma
  • Metabolic
  • Drugs
  • Epilepsy
  • Syncope
  • Stroke
    • Ischemic Stroke
    • Hemorrhagic Stroke

Infections of the Nervous System

• Meningitis
  • Acute Bacterial Meningitis
  • Subacute Meningitis
  • Chronic Meningitis
• Encephalitis
  • Acute Viral Encephalitis
  • Aseptic Encephalitis
• Brain Abscess

Trauma

• Trauma of the Head
  • Prehospital Care
  • Emergency Room Care
• Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Prehospital Care
  • Emergency Room Care
  • Complete Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries
    • Brown-Séquard syndrome
    • Failed back syndrome
    • Spinal Stenosis
• Trauma of the Peripheral Nervous System
  • Prehospital Care
  • Emergency Room Care
• Long-Term Consequences of Neurologic Trauma

Delirium and Dementia

• Delirium
• Dementia

Seizure Disorders

• Epilepsy

Neurologic Intensive Care Medicine

• Intracranial Pressure

Cerebrovascular Disease

• Ischemic Disease
  • Ischemic Stroke
• Hemorrhagic Disease
  • Hemorrhagic Stroke

Neuro-Oncology

• Intracranial Neoplasms
• Spinal Cord Neoplasms

External Links

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Section 16: Neurologic Disorders