Patterns of Tissue Pathology in Neurological Diseases

Abstract

Neurological disorders are medically defined as disorders that affect the brain as well as the nerves found throughout the human body and the spinal cord. Structural, biochemical or electrical abnormalities in the brain, spinal cord or other nerves can result in a range of symptoms like paralysis, muscle weakness, poor coordination, loss of sensation, seizures, confusion, pain and altered levels of consciousness. These include Epilepsy; Neuromuscular disease, etc. There are many recognized neurological disorders, some relatively common, but many rare. Mental disorders, on the opposite hand, are "psychiatric illnesses" or diseases which appear primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling or behavior, producing either distress or impairment of function. According to the U.S. National Library of drugs there are quite 600 neurologic diseases.