Brain Diseases - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Development of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences Guideline for rating the impairment in the brain injured and brain diseased persons with motor dysfunction.

29 May 2009 To develop an objective and scientific method to evaluate the brain injured and brain diseased persons with motor dysfunction, American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment was used as an exemplar. After the motor ... Read more...

Inborn errors of metabolism: part 1: overview.

30 Mar 2009 After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Recognize the signs and symptoms that are suggestive of an inborn error of metabolism. 2. Describe the characteristics of different classes of metabolic syndromes. 3. Formulate a logical ... Read more...

Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligence.

10 Mar 2009 The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) assesses a wide range of cognitive abilities and impairments. Factor analyses have documented four underlying indices that jointly comprise intelligence as assessed with the WAIS: verbal comprehension ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Brain Diseases - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Development of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences Guideline for rating the impairment in the brain injured and brain diseased persons with motor dysfunction. 29 May 2009
• Inborn errors of metabolism: part 1: overview. 30 Mar 2009
• Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligence. 10 Mar 2009
• Assessment of cerebral visual impairment with the L94 visual perceptual battery: clinical value and correlation with MRI findings. 27 Feb 2009
• Focal neurologic deficit. 30 Oct 2008
• Neuroimaging of pediatric diseases. 6 Oct 2008
• Complications during the Wada test. 28 Jun 2008
• [Glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT-1) deficiency] Apr 2008
• [PET/CT-based classification of delayed radiation encephalopathy following radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma] 28 Feb 2008
• [Classification of acute encephalopathy with emphasis on acute encephalopathy with febrile convulsive status] 28 Feb 2008
• Sensitivity of the children's category test level 2 to brain dysfunction. 12 Feb 2008
• Radiosurgery from the brain to the spine: 20 years experience. 30 Dec 2007
• [Prevalence of dementia or other form of organic brain disorder on a geriatric psychiatry ward] 3 Nov 2007
• Juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas do not undergo spontaneous malignant transformation: grounds for designation as hamartomas. 23 Oct 2007
• Neonatal encephalopathy and socioeconomic status: population-based case-control study. 29 Jun 2007
• Issues for DSM-V: should obesity be included as a brain disorder? 29 Apr 2007
• Clinical use of functional magnetic resonance imaging: reflections on the new CPT codes. 25 Apr 2007
• Atypical patterns of inheritance. 27 Feb 2007
• Trinucleotide repeat disorders. 27 Feb 2007
• Diagnosis of dementia in primary care: a representative survey of family physicians and neuropsychiatrists in Germany. 7 Feb 2007

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Technical information about 'Brain Diseases'

Definition: Pathologic conditions affecting the BRAIN, which is composed of the intracranial components of the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. This includes (but is not limited to) the CEREBRAL CORTEX; intracranial white matter; BASAL GANGLIA; THALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; BRAIN STEM; and CEREBELLUM.

Descriptor UI: D001927

Alternative terms: Brain Diseases; Brain Disease; Central Nervous System Disorders, Intracranial; Intracranial CNS Disorders; CNS Disorders, Intracranial; CNS Disorder, Intracranial; Intracranial CNS Disorder; Encephalon Diseases; Encephalon Disease; Intracranial Central Nervous System Disorders; Brain Disorders; Brain Disorder; Central Nervous System Intracranial Disorders; Pathology, Brain; Brain Pathology;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.228.140;