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| loss of ability to speak correctly, including word substitutions, jumbling of words and sentences |
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| deterioration of dopamine producing cells in the substantia niagra, decreased mobility, in particular an inability to start motions or to finish motions once started |
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| pain that seems to arise in an amputated limb |
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| rare neoplasm derived from the pineal gland |
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| Postencephalic Parkinsonism |
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| the "sleepy sickness"of Awakenings |
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| cover a range of seizure-like phenomena that may or may not be associated with real seizures |
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| no loss of vision but patient cannot recognize what they see |
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| a mental disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of a person's mental capacity, affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate and relate to others to the degree of interfering with their capacity to cope with the ordinary demands of everyday life |
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| impaired language comprehension, also called Wernicke's aphasia |
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| an involuntary reaction in response to a stimulus applied to the periphery and transmitted to the nervous centers of the brain and spinal cord |
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| stiffness of inflexibility |
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| test of distinguishing between hearing loss due to acoustic nerve injury and to conductive hearing loss |
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| parergasia, the most common type of psychosis, characterized by a disorder in the thinking process, such as delusions and hallucinations and extensive withdrawal from the outside world |
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| neurofibroma, neurolemoma, usually develop on CN VIII, but also CNs V, IX, X, or VII |
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| an isolated area of the visual field where vision is absent or depressed |
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| the sudden onset of a disease or of certain symptoms |
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| sleep disturbance due to breathing interruption |
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| a state of increased muscle tone with an exaggeration of the tendon reflexes |
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| a lay term denoting a sudden neurological affliction usually related to the cerebral blood supply |
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| fainting due to sudden drop in blood pressure |
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| transient thought disorders following seizures |
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| coma-like condition that can develop after structural brain injuries, encephalitis, metabolic encephalopy, psychiatric disturbances and poisoning |
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