neurological

Ramón Carrillo

...d Ramón Carrillo contributed novel techniques for neurological diagnosis: he refined iodine-contrasted ventriculography, called iodoventriculography, and discovered signs in it for several diseases; developed tomography, which by lack of electronic means at the time was prevented from integrating computation ye...

Phantom pain

...information to pass on, they will instead send the neurological equivalent of white noise , which the brain then interprets as pain. [1] In cases in which a traumatic event causes nerve severance and also detaches the nociceptive neurons from the rest of the spinal cord, phantom pain will not develop. Some ...

Neuropsychiatry

... in no way exhaustive but aims to show some of the neurological bases to hitherto psychiatric symptoms) Psychi...ymptoms. However, it cuts both ways: traditionally neurological disorders, like Parkinson’s disease , are being recognised for their high incidence of traditionally...

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy

...ef. Contraindications for this procedure include: neurological and vascular disease of the foot, history of rupture of the plantar fascial ligament, open bone growth plates, pregnancy, implanted metal in the area (bone screws and pins) and people on medication that interferes with blood clotting such as coumadin...

Directed attention fatigue

Directed attention fatigue ( DAF ) is a neurological symptom which occurs when the inhibitory attention system , that part of the brain which allows us to concentrate in the face of distractions, becomes fatigued. Signs of directed attention fatigue include temporarily feeling unusually distractible...

Episodic memory

...mple of this. Episodic memory damage One neurological feature of autism is the ability to form semantic, but not episodic, memories ( Ben Shalom, 1993 ). The label " Amnesia " is most often given to patients with deficits in episodic memory. Alzheimer's Disease tends to damage the hippocampus be...