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  Migraine

  Migraine is a neurologic disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling headache. Migraine is the most common type of vascular headache. Migraine headaches are usually ... > more
• Medical Technology
  Medical Imaging
  Today's Healthcare
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
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  Magnetic resonance imaging

  Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), formerly referred to as Magnetic Resonance Tomography (MRT) or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), is a method used to visualize the inside of living organisms as well ... > more
• Headaches
  Headache Research
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Sports Medicine
   

  Headache

  A headache (cephalgia in medical terminology) is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache. It ranks amongst the most common local pain ... > more
• Alzheimer's Research
  Alzheimer's
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  Dementia with Lewy bodies

  Dementia with Lewy bodies is the second most frequent cause of hospitalization for dementia, after Alzheimer's disease. Current estimates are that about 60 to 75% of diagnosed dementias are of the ... > more
• Intelligence
  Neuroscience
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  Healthy Aging
  Psychology
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  Cognitive neuroscience

  The field of cognitive neuroscience concerns the scientific study of the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and is a branch of neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience overlaps with cognitive ... > more
• Brain Injury
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Accident and Trauma
  Sports Medicine
  Intelligence
  Brain Tumor
   
  

  Head injury

  Head injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain. The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a ... > more
• Developmental Biology
  Nervous System
  Stress
  Neuroscience
  Human Biology
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Sympathetic nervous system

  The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is part of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which also includes the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). The sympathetic nervous system activates what is ... > more
• Nervous System
  Bone and Spine
  Neuroscience
  Disability
  Brain Tumor
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Spinal cord

  The spinal cord is a part of the vertebrate nervous system that is enclosed in and protected by the vertebral column (it passes through the spinal canal). It consists of nerve cells. The cord conveys ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Depression
  Sports Medicine
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Mental Health Research
   
  

  Deep brain stimulation

  Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is one of a group of treatments involving surgical implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the ... > more
• Sleep Disorder Research
  Sleep Disorders
  Insomnia
  Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Insomnia Research
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Sleep disorder

  A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a disorder in the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Sleep disorders include: Bruxism; delayed sleep phase syndrome; insomnia: jet lag or desynchronosis; ... > more

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