Researchers from the USA have figured out how to achieve the greatest effect when taking pills. It turns out that a person’s posture while drinking medications is essential. The speed of action of the pill consumed depends on whether we are sitting, standing or lying on our back. This conclusion was reached by scientists from…
Intracerebral hemorrhage is a limited accumulation of blood in the substance of the brain, which has a squeezing, displacing and damaging effect on the brain tissue located nearby. Disease is clinically characterized by cerebral and focal symptoms, which depend on the location of the hematoma and its volume. Hemorrhage is most reliably diagnosed by the combined…
Temporal lobe epilepsy is one of the forms of epilepsy in which the focus of epileptic activity is localized in the temporal lobe of the brain. Disease is characterized by simple and complex partial epi-seizures, and with the further development of the disease, secondary generalized seizures and mental disorders. The diagnosis is made possible by…
Viral encephalitis is diffuse or focal inflammatory changes in the structures of the brain caused by the penetration of viral agents into them. The clinical picture is variable, it depends on the type of virus and the state of the patient’s immune system; it consists of general infectious, cerebral and focal manifestations. The diagnostic algorithm…
Viral meningitis is a lesion of the membranes of the brain that proceeds according to the type of serous inflammatory process and is caused by a viral infection. Like meningitis of another etiology, viral meningitis is manifested by headache, nausea, repeated vomiting, and the presence of meningeal symptoms. Its distinctive features are an acute onset,…
Vibration disease is a disease based on pathological changes in the receptor apparatus and various parts of the central nervous system that occur with prolonged exposure to local and / or general vibration. The clinical picture may include polyneuropathic, angiospastic, angiodistonic, asthenic, vegetative-vestibular, polyradicular syndromes, functional disorders in the gastrointestinal tract and hearing loss. Disease…
Vestibular neuritis is a selective lesion of the vestibular nerve, presumably having an inflammatory genesis and manifested by a single acute paroxysm of intense dizziness with balance disorder and complete hearing loss. Compensation of vestibular function after an episode of vertigo may take several weeks. Diagnosis is carried out by methods of examination of the…
Vestibular migraine is a form of migraine in which the symptoms of dizziness come to the fore, not headaches. It develops as a result of complex neurophysiological mechanisms provoked by psychological, physiological or exogenous triggers. The disease proceeds in the form of attacks lasting up to 72 hours, including prodrome, aura with intense dizziness, severe…
Vestibular ataxia is a violation of the coordination of movements and the ability to maintain a pose associated with damage to the vestibular apparatus at any level. Vestibular ataxia is manifested by shakiness in standing and sitting positions, as well as when walking. It is accompanied by systemic dizziness and nystagmus; nausea and vomiting, vegetative…
