Would you like to find out about your neurological symptoms?
Here you will find some information about typical neurological symptoms.
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(Lower) back pain is one of the commonest health complaints of all – about 70 percent of all adults experience this kind of pain at least once in their lives.
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The organ of balance is located in the inner ear. It is closely connected to the balance center in the brain. Other organs or senses also help people with their sense of balance. Hearing, eyes, skin and muscles are just a few examples of the senses used to detect the earth’s gravity and acceleration.
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In bladder dysfunction, a basic distinction is made between involuntary urine leakage (urinary incontinence) and bladder emptying disorders.
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There are many reasons for clumsiness of the hands or impairment of fine motor skills.
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The causes can be manifold. In principle, any pathological change in the brain can cause personality change (craniocerebral injury, tumor, stroke, meningitis, Alzheimer’s Disease, dementia, epilepsy etc.), but so can metabolic causes (e.g. in diabetes, thyroid disease, liver or kidney failure) or intoxication.
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A disturbance in the interaction and targeting of movements. Various symptoms may occur, depending on the part of the body affected.
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Seeing is an extremely complex process. Eye movements are caused by the eye muscles. In the process, an image is recorded by each eye. The eye muscles are designed so that the right and left eyes always look at the same object.
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Epileptic seizures are sudden electrical discharges of specific brain regions or of the entire brain. Depending on the discharging brain region, the seizures can take on very different forms. Therefore, two main types of epileptic seizures are distinguished, namely generalized and focal (also called partial seizures).
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The term “erectile dysfunction” is understood as insufficient stiffening of the penis, making sexual intercourse difficult or impossible.
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The face contains several organs, and when problems occur these can cause facial pain that cannot always be precisely localized. It is therefore often necessary to see several specialists.
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The muscles of the face are supplied by the seventh cranial nerve – there are twelve in all. If its function is disturbed, this leads to paralysis of the facial muscles, which is mainly noticeable by a drooping corner of the mouth and a drooping or closed eyelid.
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Hemifacial spasm is a specific disorder which manifests itself by mostly painless unilateral muscle twitching and cramping in the face.
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Occasionally tripping or falling is quite commonplace. As we age, falls can become a real problem: just over one-third of people over the age of 65 suffer a dangerous fall each year, many of them injuring themselves. Even in younger people, various illnesses can lead to an increased risk of falling.
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Fatigue is defined as a lack of energy and initiative, but is not synonymous with sleepiness, which means an increased tendency to fall asleep. The most common cause of fatigue is depression, although sleepiness often masks sleep deprivation, sleep apnea, or narcolepsy. However, one should also look for rare causes of non-restful sleep.
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A large proportion of neurological symptoms cannot be linked to any corresponding organic disorder despite multiple additional technical examinations. This often suggests a functional disorder of the brain. This may be imagined as a software malfunction with flawless hardware.
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Headaches can occur as an independent clinical presentation or as a typical symptom accompanying other diseases. They are one of the most common forms of pain today.
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Insomnia can have many different causes, but the commonest is an improper sleep-wake rhythm due to a “dumb” habit (learned insomnia). Insomnia also often occurs in conjunction with a mental illness such as depression or anxiety disorder. One of the most common organic causes of insomnia is restless legs syndrome, but many other neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, narcolepsy, epilepsy, or dementia are also common. Sleep apnea syndrome may also be associated with insomnia.
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Forgetting is not only a negative phenomenon, but an absolutely necessary brain function.
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Stiffness or rigidity is perceived in muscles in neurological diseases in two different forms: 1) spasticity, 2) rigidity.
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Muscle cramps are involuntary, painful contractions of individual muscle groups (mostly calf muscles) and occur due to overuse of the muscles or disturbance of the electrolyte balance. Differentiation from restless legs syndrome can sometimes be difficult. Specific forms of muscle cramps, which occur exclusively at night and during sleep, are classified as sleep-related movement disorders.
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For many people, tense, painful muscles are part of everyday life: these symptoms are often caused by a lack of exercise. A serious underlying disease can also lead to muscle pain.
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Muscle twitches have various causes. Muscle twitching can occur in the context of an epileptic seizure, or in certain movement disorders (e.g. essential tremor, dystonia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s Disease, etc.). In all these disorders, there is almost always a movement effect in the adjacent joints.
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Muscle atrophy often produces symptoms such as clumsiness of the hands or weakness in the hands and feet. There are several causes of muscle atrophy.
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Dreams that take on a stressful dimension and remain in the memory for a long time are described as nightmares. However, the patients themselves cannot distinguish such dreams, which occur during the transition from wakefulness to sleep, from hallucinations. If the dreams are accompanied by strong motor restlessness with thrashing about or loud screaming, one must consider a dream-sleep behavior disorder. Sleepwalking is rarely accompanied by diffuse dream memories.
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Restless legs – especially in connection with an urge to move – are a main complaint in restless legs syndrome. Most often, the sensations are localized deep in the legs and rarely in other parts of the body. Typically, the complaints appear increasingly towards evening or at night when sitting down or lying down and disappear during the day when active. This distinguishes these complaints from the sensory disturbances in polyneuropathy.
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Sensation disorders (also referred to as sensitivity disorder, sensation disorder, numbness, tingling etc.) can be divided into those in which sensation is absent (numbness, feeling like “after the dentist”) and those in which unpleasant sensations, abnormal sensations or so-called neuropathic pain are produced (burning, stinging, tingling etc.).
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Unusual complex behaviors that occur exclusively during sleep may include sleepwalking, dream-sleep behavior disorder, panic attacks, or epileptic seizures. However, repetitive twitching also occurs in restless legs syndrome, neck myoclonus, or other sleep-related movement disorders. Accurate differentiation through overnight observation in the sleep laboratory is important because different causes require different treatments.
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This is a major symptom in Parkinson’s disease. It is also known as bradykinesia or akinesia. There is a general slowing down of movement sequences.
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Snoring is not (yet) considered pathological, not least because the phenomenon is very common, especially in the male population but also in women, but with a different incidence. Loud snoring, however, is often accompanied by recurring pauses in breathing during sleep, which interrupt sleep and therefore lead to daytime sleepiness. The boundary with “dangerous snoring”, also known as sleep apnea syndrome, is fluid.
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A speech disorder or speech defect is a disturbance in the mental production of speech. The structure of language and ability to speak are impaired.
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Shaking is mostly an unconscious or involuntary motor action in which the body as a whole or individual body parts tremble, vibrate, jitter or shake.
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Difficulty walking is a very common neurological symptom and can occur in numerous medical conditions.
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Vertigo is one of the symptoms most frequently seen by general practitioners. Very often it is simply discomfort, which is referred to as dizziness by patients, due to increased fatigue, overexertion, infectious diseases, headache, heart, circulatory, digestive or menstrual disorders, exposure to alcohol and drugs, medication side effects or mental illness.
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Visual disorders are widespread. A visual disorder is defined as a temporary or persistent pathological impairment of the visual apparatus.
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