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Anti-inflammatory refers to the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs make up about half of analgesics, remedying pain by reducing inflammation as opposed to opioids which affect the central nervous system. Adapted from the Wikipedia article...
Neurosarcoidosis (sometimes shortened to neurosarcoid) refers to sarcoidosis, a condition of unknown cause featuring granulomas in various tissues, involving the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). It can have many manifestations, but abnormalities of the cranial nerves (a group of...

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InflammationMyelitis is a disease involving inflammation of the spinal cord, which disrupts central nervous system functions linking the brain and limbs. The name is derived from Greek referring to the “spinal cord”, and the suffix ”-itis”, which denotes inflammation. Adapted ...
*Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis *Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy *West Nile Virus can produce aseptic meningitis,encephalitis,and acute flaccid paralysis *Poliomyelitis *Herpes simplex encephalitis *Enteroviral disease *most forms of aseptic meningitis are viral in origin,though neoplastic and lyme meningitis are also aseptic. *Eastern equine ...
Lyme diseaseNeuroborreliosis is a disorder of the central nervous system caused by infection with a spirochete of the genus ”Borrelia”. The microbiological progression of the disease is similar to that of neurosyphilis, another spirochetal infection. Neuroborreliosis occurs as a rare manifestation ...
InflammationAnti-inflammatory refers to the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs make up about half of analgesics, remedying pain by reducing inflammation as opposed to opioids which affect the central nervous system. Adapted from the Wikipedia ...
SarcoidosisNeurosarcoidosis (sometimes shortened to neurosarcoid) refers to sarcoidosis, a condition of unknown cause featuring granulomas in various tissues, involving the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). It can have many manifestations, but abnormalities of the cranial nerves (a group ...
sclerosis joint arthritisPeople with psoriasis may be protected from the debilitating Central Nervous System disorders, such as Schizophrenia and many others.
PsoriasisAlthough the basic neurochemistry of the stress response is now well understood, much remains to be discovered about how the components of this system interact with one another, in the brain and throughout in the body. In response to a ...
ArthritisDistantly related to human herpes, a virus of this type is composed of a series of double strand sequences of up to 100 gene segments, aligned along a long chromosome surrounded by terminal DNA segments. The effect of the virus ...
Lyme diseaseAcrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA) (also known as “Herxheimer disease” and “Primary diffuse atrophy”) is a skin rash indicative of the third or late stage of European Lyme borreliosis. ACA is a dermatological condition that takes a chronically progressive course and ...
treatments for temporal arthritisNeurology is a medical speciality dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all ...
Lyme diseaseDysautonomia (autonomic dysfunction) is a broad term that describes any disease or malfunction of the autonomic nervous system. This includes postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), vasovagal syncope, mitral valve prolapse dysautonomia, pure autonomic failure, neurocardiogenic syncope (NCS), neurally mediated hypotension ...
Ehlers danlos syndromeMenkes syndrome is a disorder that affects copper levels in the body. It is characterized by sparse and coarse hair, growth failure, and deterioration of the nervous system
Inflammatory bowel diseaseNeuromyelitis optica (NMO), also known as Devic’s disease or Devic’s syndrome, is an autoimmune, inflammatory disorder in which a person’s own immune system attacks the optic nerves and spinal cord. This produces an inflammation of the optic nerve (optic neuritis) ...
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