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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Brain Disease


Alzheimer's Disease

This progressive disease damages nerve cells in parts of the brain involved in memory, learning, language, and reasoning. In early stages, short-term memory begins to fail. Over time, functions such as long-term memory

Brain Tumor

Most brain tumors in children are primary tumors, meaning they arise in the brain. In adults, most are metastatic or secondary tumors, meaning the cancer has spread to the brain from the breast, lung, or other part of the body. Nearly 1 in 4 people with cancer will get a secondary brain tumor

Stroke

Medicine has made great strides in diagnosing and treating stroke, in which a blood vessel carrying oxygen and other nutrients to the brain becomes blocked or suddenly bursts

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