| A | B |
|---|
| ALS | Degenerative disease of the motor neurons causing progressive weakness until complete paralysis |
| Alzheimer's Disease | Degenerative changes in the brain structure leading to progressive memory loss, impaired thinking & personality changes |
| Amnesia | Total or partial inability to recall past experiences |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease |
| Aneurysm | Abnormal widening of a blood vessel |
| Aphasia | Loss of ability to speak, write, or comprehend the written or spoken word |
| Apraxia | Impairment in the ability to perform purposeful acts or to properly use familiar objects |
| Aura | Sensation of a feeling |
| Bell's palsy | Paralysis of facial nerve causing drooping of face |
| Brain scan | Radioactive chemicals are given intravenously and travel to brain |
| Causalgia | Burning pain following an injury to a sensory nerve |
| Cephalgia | Headache |
| Cerebral Infarction | Stroke |
| Cerebral Palsy | Birth defect characterized by spasticity, athetosis, tremors and loss of muscle tone |
| Cerebrospinal fluid analysis | CSF |
| Cerebrovascular Accident | also called a stroke, CVA |
| Coma | State of unconsciousness |
| Computerized Transverse Tomography | CTT; X-rays are taken of cross-sections of the brain. Also called CAT or CT scan |
| Concussion | Temporary brain dysfunction after injury, usually clearing after 24 hours |
| Contusion | Bruising of the brain tissue as a result of a direct trauma to the head, lasts longer than 24 hours |
| Craniotomy | Incision into the skull |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid analysis; diagnosis of brain disease |
| CTT | Computerized Transverse Tomography; X-rays are taken of cross-sections of the brain. Also called CAT, CT scan |
| CVA | Disruption in the normal blood supply to the brain |
| Dementia | Mental decline and deterioration |
| Demyelination | Destruction or loss of the myelin sheath |
| Dysphasia | Impairment of speech |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram - record of the electrical activity of the brain |
| Electroencephalogram | EEG |
| Encephalitis | Inflammation of the brain |
| Epilepsy | Group of neurologic disorders with recurrent seizures |
| Gait | Manner of walking |
| Glioma | Malignant brain tumor |
| Hemiplegia | Paralysis of the left or right side of the body |
| Herpes Zoster | Adult chickenpox |
| Huntington's Chorea | Hereditary nervous disorder due to degenerative changes in the cerebrum |
| Hydrocephalus | Abnormally increased amount of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain |
| Hyperesthesia | Excessive sensitivity to stimuli |
