Your brain is the control center of your body. It controls your thoughts, memory, speech, and movement. It regulates the function of many organs. It's part of your nervous system, which also includes your spinal cord and peripheral nerves. The nervous system sends signals between your brain and the rest of the body. Your nerves take in information from your senses and send it to the brain to be processed. Your brain and nerves also communicate to help you move and to control your body's functions.
When the brain is healthy, it works quickly and automatically. But when you have a brain disease, it may affect how well you can function and do your daily activities. Some common brain diseases include:
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- Brain Diseases (National Library of Medicine)Your brain is the control center of your body. It controls your thoughts, memory, speech, and movement. It regulates the function of many organs. It's part ...
- ... neurocognitive disorder. Other conditions that may mimic organic brain syndrome include: Depression Neurosis Psychosis ... differ based on the disease. In general, organic brain syndrome causes: Agitation Confusion Long-term loss of brain ...
- ... long-term ( chronic ) disorders that cause dementia . Acute brain syndromes may be reversible by treating the cause. Delirium ...
- Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects one or more brain functions such as memory, thinking, ...
- Brain-lung-thyroid syndrome is a group of conditions that affect the brain, lungs, and thyroid gland (a butterfly-shaped gland in the lower neck). Brain-lung-thyroid syndrome historically included problems with all three organs, although ...
- ... with developmental delay and acanthosis nigricans Skeleton-skin-brain syndrome SSB syndrome Genetic Testing Registry: Severe achondroplasia-developmental ...
- ... fossa brain tumor of infancy Familial posterior fossa brain tumor syndrome Familial rhabdoid tumor Hereditary SWI/SNF deficiency syndrome ...
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an organic brain syndrome caused by a protein-like particle called a prion. Loss of brain function resembles Alzheimer's disease, but is very rapid in progression. ...
- ... NKX2-1 gene have been found to cause brain-lung-thyroid syndrome, which encompasses a group of conditions that affect ... of the NKX2-1 gene mutations involved in brain-lung-thyroid syndrome result in an abnormally short homeobox protein Nkx- ...
- ... Schneider SA, Bhatia KP. Excess iron harms the brain: the syndromes of neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA). J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2013 ...
