Disorders of the Nervous System

O 14: Differentiating Demyelinating Disorders of the Central Nervous System – a Focus on Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis-Optica Spectrum Disorders

Significant advances have been made in diagnosis and therapy of demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system. The most common entities of this disorders in adults – multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica were initially thought to be different phenotypes of more or less the same disease. During the last ten years, this view was subsequently changed and the term neuromyelitis ...

Disorders of the autonomic nervous system.

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Nutritional Disorders of the Nervous System

Disorders of the nervous system in malnutrition.

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Drug-induced disorders of the nervous system.

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