Neurology Medicine

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The Child Neurology is a specialty of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the central nervous system (brain, cerebellum, brainstem, spinal) and peripheral (nerves and muscles) during all stages of life from conception – through the newborn, infant, preschool, school-to adolescence.

The Child Neurologist cares and is attentive to any deviation or alteration that the child present in their development, both from the cognitive perspective (learning, psychological) as a motor, in order to make an early diagnosis and timely treatment.

The child’s brain is a developing brain as the various manifestations of neurological diseases will be different according to age is presented.
The first objective will be to define whether it is a normal variation or a manifestation of disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Autoimmunity is a common cause of human disease, affecting approximately 2% of the population and results from a failure or disruption of the mechanisms that are normally responsible for self-tolerance.

Self-tolerance, or lack of response to self antigens, is a process that actively acquires, or it is learned, by which it prevents potentially autoreactive lymphocytes acquire the capacity to respond to self antigens, or they inactive after meeting with them. Read the rest of this entry »