Definition of brain disorder Brain disorder
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What does brain disorder mean?
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| brain disorder - any disorder or disease of the brain | ||
| encephalopathy, brain disease | ||
| nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder a disorder of the nervous system | ||
| epilepsy a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | ||
| apraxia inability to make purposeful movements | ||
| paralysis agitans, parkinson's, parkinson's disease, parkinson's syndrome, parkinsonism, shaking palsy a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination | ||
| cerebral palsy, spastic paralysis a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth | ||
| agraphia, anorthography, logagraphia a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | ||
| acataphasia a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | ||
| aphasia inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | ||
| agnosia inability to recognize objects by use of the senses | ||
| cjd, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, jakob-creutzfeldt disease rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control | ||
| reye's syndrome acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver | ||
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