Nerves

Article Excerpts about Nerves

Nerves carry messages back and forth between the brain and other parts of the body. All of your nerves together make up the nervous system.

Some nerves tell the brain what is happening in the body. For example, when you step on a tack, the nerve in your foot tells the brain about the pain. Other nerves tell the body what to do. For example, nerves from the brain tell your stomach when it is time to move food into your intestines. (Source: excerpt from Keep your nervous system healthy: NIDDK)

Summary Information: Nerves

Condition count: 72 ; see list below.

Organ subtypes: ulnar nerve

Main condition: Nerve conditions

Organs: list of all organs

Diseases List for Nerves:

The following list of medical conditions have 'Nerves' or similar listed as an affected body part in our database:

A

• Acoustic neuroma ... nerves
• Adult SMA ... nerves
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ... nerves
• Ataxia ... nerves
• Autoimmune neuropathies ... nerves
• Autonomic neuropathy ... nerves

B

• Batten Disease ... nerves
• Bell's Palsy ... nerve

C

• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy ... nerves
• Convulsions ... nerves
• Cranial neuralgia ... nerves

D

• Demyelinating disorder ... nerves
• Diabetic neuropathy ... nerves
• Dysautonomia ... nerves
• Dystonias ... nerves

F

• Febrile Seizures ... nerves
• Friedreich's ataxia ... nerves

G

• Gastroparesis ... nerves
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome ... nerves

H

• Hallervorden-Spatz disease ... nerves
• Hemifacial Spasm ... nerves
• Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia ... nerves
• Herpes zoster oticus ... nerves

I

• Infantile Refsum Disease ... nerves
• Intercostal neuralgia ... nerves

K

• Kearns-Sayre Syndrome ... nerves

M

• Miller Fisher Syndrome ... nerves
• Mobius syndrome ... nerves
• Monomelic Amyotrophy ... nerves
• Motor neuron diseases ... nerves
• Multiple Sclerosis ... nerves

N

• Nerve cancer ... nerves
• Nerve conditions ... nerves
• Neuralgia ... nerves
• Neuritis ... nerve
• Neuroblastoma ... nerves
• Neurofibromatosis ... nerves
• Neurofibromatosis-1 ... nerves
• Neurofibromatosis-2 ... nerves
• Neuroma ... nerves
• Neuronal Migration Disorders ... nerves
• Neuropathic pain ... nerves
• Neuropathy ... nerves

O

• Occipital Neuralgia ... nerves
• Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy ... nerves

P

• Paralysis ... nerves
• Paresthesia ... nerves
• Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease ... nerves
• Peripheral neuropathy ... nerves
• Pinched Nerve ... nerves
• Polyneuritis ... nerves
• Porphyria ... nerves
• Primary Lateral Sclerosis ... nerves
• Progressive Spinobulbar muscular atrophy ... nerves

R

• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome ... nerves
• Refsum Disease ... nerves
• Restless Legs Syndrome ... nerves

S

• Schilder's Disease ... nerves
• Sciatica ... nerves
• Spina bifida ... nerves
• Spinal cord injury ... nerves
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy ... nerves
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy type I ... nerves
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy type II ... nerves
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy type III ... nerves
• Stiff-Person Syndrome ... nerves

T

• Transverse myelitis ... nerves
• Tremor ... nerves
• Trigeminal neuralgia ... nerves
• Tropical Spastic Paraparesis ... nerves

V

• Vascular neuropathy ... nerves

W

• Wallenberg's Syndrome ... nerves

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