Neurological genetics is the study of the genetic causes of neurological diseases, which can affect either central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) or the peripheral nervous system. Ophthalmological genetics is the study of the genes responsible...

The enormous complexity of the brain's structure and function allows many possibilities for genetic errors to occur. The same is true for the eye, an extension of the brain. Some of these errors are known as structural defects. One such defect,...

Neurology is the study of the nervous system and its components. Neuroscience may involve the nervous systems of humans and higher animals as well as simple multicellular nervous systems, or investigate nervous phenomenon at the cellular, organelle, or...

Neurology literally refers to the study of nervous tissue (neuron being Greek for nerve) but it has come to mean the branch of medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the nervous system. It is expressly medical:...

Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their...

State health officials said Monday they were investigating neurological illnesses among 11 workers at a pork processing plant, but that there was no evidence that the public was at risk.Health Commissioner Dr. Sanne Magnan also said there was no evidence that the food coming out...

Winston Moss was still wearing his pads when he went in for the CT scan. The Seattle Seahawks linebacker suffered a neck fracture during a road game in Baltimore in 1997, and the Ravens medical staff's emergency protocol ensured that that he quickly received the...

Dr. Hugo Wolfgang Moser, a neurologist whose work with a rare disorder was depicted in the 1992 movie "Lorenzo's Oil," has died. He was 82 and had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.Moser, who died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, researched childhood mental retardation and...

Dr. Hugo Wolfgang Moser, a neurologist whose work with a rare disorder was depicted in the 1992 movie "Lorenzo's Oil," has died. He was 82 and had been undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.Moser, who died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, researched childhood mental retardation and...

Neurological Disorders of the brain.