Approximately 50,000 eclampsia-related deaths occur worldwide each year. Approximately 10% of women have repeated seizures, and an estimated 15%-20% die from cerebral hemorrhage related to eclampsia.

Jane Fitzgerald-Hines, BSN RN CNRN, is a mentor in the neuroscience intensive care unit at Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ. Mary L. King, BSN ...

Objective To examine the characteristics of those who fulfil the recent National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS) Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy ...

Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease that was first found in cattle. It's related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Both ...

1 Department of Paediatric Neurology, Sheffield Children's Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK 2 Department of Paediatric Neuroradiology, Sheffield Children's Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, ...

An infectious encephalitis may also be difficult to distinguish from an encephalopathy that may be associated with numerous metabolic causes. Among the factors which have helped to focus attention on ...