brain disease
Cerebral medical condition
Brain disease is any disorder affecting the brain's structure or function.
The term covers a vast range—degenerative conditions like Alzheimer's, infections like meningitis, tumors, strokes, and psychiatric disorders.
His brain disease progressed rapidly over two years.
Whether a condition counts as brain disease versus mental illness often depends on how clearly physical changes can be identified.
- neurologicalOf the nervous system
- dementiaChronic cognitive impairment
- Alzheimer'sDegenerative brain disease
- early onsetBeginning before typical age
- Parkinson'sNeurodegenerative motor disorder
stroke · tumor · lesion · cognitive · memory loss · memory · seizure · epilepsy · degeneration · tremor · confusion · losing your mind · atrophy · encephalitis · meningitis · paralysis · diagnosis · MRI
- Organ Diseasesorgan failure, cirrhosis, hepatitis, nephritis, pancreatitis
- degenerationdegeneration, neurodegeneration, atrophy, deterioration, demyelination
brain diseasebrain health
Mind's physical condition
neurological health · cognitive health · mental acuity · sound mind · brain function
brain diseaseheart disease
Malfunction of blood-pumping organ
cardiovascular disease · liver disease · lung disease · kidney disease · skin disease
brain diseasemental illness
Disorder affecting cognition or mood
psychiatric disorder · psychological disorder · functional disorder · mood disorder · anxiety disorder
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