What are the diseases of the central nervous system?
Recently, I have been experiencing frequent headaches, feeling unwell, recurring dizziness, and severe episodes of lightheadedness. I don't know what's causing it. The doctor mentioned it might be a problem with the nervous system. So, what are the diseases of the central nervous system?
Doctor's answer (1)
Central nervous system diseases mainly include the following categories:
1. Cerebrovascular diseases: such as cerebral infarction, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and intraventricular hemorrhage. These are the most common types of central nervous system diseases and are characterized by high incidence, high disability rate, high recurrence rate, and high mortality.
2. Neurodegenerative diseases: such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and multiple system atrophy. These diseases primarily affect the structure and function of the nervous system, leading to progressive degeneration.
3. Central nervous system infectious diseases: such as various types of encephalitis and meningitis, including viral encephalitis, tuberculous meningitis, and purulent meningitis.
4. Spinal cord diseases: such as acute myelitis, spinal cord demyelinating diseases, multiple sclerosis, spinal vascular diseases, spinal space-occupying lesions, and spinal cord compression syndromes. These diseases mainly affect the function and structure of the spinal cord.
5. Other diseases: also include central nervous system demyelinating diseases, movement disorders, epilepsy, central nervous system genetic diseases, developmental abnormalities, toxic diseases, neoplastic diseases, and immune-mediated diseases.
