Your central nervous system, CNS for short, consists of the brain and spinal cord. Your spinal cord is like an information highway between the brain and skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles, as well as glands. Your brain receives, interprets and then responds to the signals that are continuously zooming in via the spinal cord.
When your central nervous system is impacted by some type of health condition or damage, neurological and psychological symptoms typically give notice there’s a problem. The variety of causes of CNS diseases and conditions are:
- chemical imbalance
- autoimmune disorder
- tumor ~ cancer, benign
- infection ~ bacterial, viral
- structural deformity ~ birth defects
- trauma ~ brain injury, spinal cord injury
- degeneration ~ demylination, brain cells
- substance accumulation ~ enzyme deficiency
- vascular disruptions ~ hemorrhage, hematoma, cyst
Most types of diseases that cause CNS problems originates from one or more of these causes.
Types of central nervous system diseases and other health conditions that can have an affect on your central nervous system include:
- polio
- autism
- epilepsy
- dementia
- meningitis
- depression
- stroke, TIA
- Bell”s palsy
- encephalitis
- brain cancer
- spinal tumor
- schizophrenia
- panic disorder
- bipolar disorder
- arachnoid cysts
- Gaucher disease
- epidural abscess
- Wilson’s disease
- Behcet’s disease
- multiple sclerosis
- disk degeneration
- Whipples disease
- cervical spondylosis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease
- Tourette’s syndrome
- Huntington’s disease
- spinal cord infarction
- insomnia, narcolepsy
- general anxiety disorder
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Arnold-Chairi malformation
- tropical spastic paraparesis
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- central nervous system lymphoma
- lipid storage disease ~ Tay-Sachs disease, Sandhoff disease
Some of these CNS diseases may only impact your central nervous system, while others will simultaneously affect other parts of your body too.
Different types of central nervous system diseases express different symptoms. However, here’s several general symptoms indicating your central nervous system might be under some type of health stress:
- tremors
- seizures
- hypertonia
- slurred speech
- muscle weakness
- radiating back pain
- coordination issues
- suddenly lose vision
- paralysis, paresthesia
- amnesia, mental impairment
- headache ~ persistent, sudden onset, different
Seek health care attention should you ever experience any of these potential CNS symptoms.
