Companion for Mental Disorders

Epileptic syndrome in children and adults. What is important to know?

What is an epileptic syndrome? What kinds exist? Can they be cured and how do they differ from epilepsy? Epileptic syndrome (or episyndrome ) is a type of epilepsy in which similar symptoms appear in a group of patients. For example: the age of onset of epilepsy, a similar course of the disease, similar results…
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Epilepsy in newborns. What to do?

How does epilepsy manifest in newborns and what are its causes? Is this disease treated in infants and what should parents do? Newborns have the highest number of seizures among all young patients with epilepsy, which is due to numerous reasons. In premature babies under 1500 grams, seizures are most common. As found in a…
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Life expectancy in epilepsy

What is the life expectancy for epilepsy? Is it possible to die from epileptic seizures? How to protect the life of a sick child or adult? The death rate in epilepsy is twice as high as in healthy people. We are talking exclusively about deaths, which relate only to epilepsy and seizures, and not to…
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Epilepsy attacks: types and features

What are epileptic seizures? How do myoclonic , tonic, clonic and other seizures manifest themselves in children and adults? Depending on the type of epilepsy, as well as the cause of the disease, patients may experience different types of seizures. It is important to remember that the same patient may experience various epileptic seizures. Types…
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Epileptic encephalopathy in children. How to treat and what is the prognosis?

What is epileptic encephalopathy and how does it manifest itself in children? What treatment is needed and what is important for parents to know? Epileptic encephalopathy is a type of epilepsy that can lead to brain damage. Epileptic encephalopathy is a severe variant of the course of the disease, in which, in most cases, not…
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Stroke

BRAIN DAMAGE IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES: HOW TO DETECT AND CAN I AVOID? The frequency of cerebral strokes in people older than 50-55 years increases by 1.8-2 times in each subsequent decade of life. The development of acute disorders of cerebral circulation is preceded by long and complex changes in the cardiovascular system and the system…
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HIM / DEP

To select the optimal therapeutic tactics, the assessment of the severity of SCI is of great importance. The diagnosis of moderate SCI is based on: on complaints of the patient and (or) people close to him about memory impairment and other cognitive functions; the presence of a syndrome of moderate cognitive impairment according to neuropsychological…
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Traumatic brain injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a Russian term that does not quite correctly reflect the essence of the phenomena. The fact is that skull injuries, types of fractures occur only with brain bruises and then in less than 50-60% of cases, and with a concussion of the brain, which accounts for 80% of all TBIs,…
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Alzheimer’s disease

INTRODUCTION The management of patients with AD is one of the urgent problems of modern medicine, because AD is one of the most common causes of acquired cognitive impairment (CI) and, as a result, disability among the elderly [1]. Currently, more than 44 million people suffer from dementia, and 5 to 7 million new cases…
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Cognitive disorders

Post-stroke cognitive impairment Post-stroke cognitive impairment can be presented in a wide range, from mild dysfunction (decreased concentration of attention, decreased speed of solving cognitive tasks, mild memory impairment) to the degree of dementia (inability to perform the usual daily functional duties). However, if such vivid forms of CD as dementia in patients who have…
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