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Brain and spinal infections
Brain and spinal infections are serious infections that can be contagious. They are caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi.
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A 38-year old asked:
What are the key symptoms of brain and spinal infections?
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A 28-year old asked:
Describe the features of a brain and spinal cord infection.?
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A 45-year old asked:
What location would you puncture spinal cord to draw cerebrospinal fluid if brain has an infection?
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A 38-year old asked:
Where does a doctor puncture spinal cord to draw cerebrospinal fluid if brain a person has a brain infection?
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A 26-year old asked:
Could spinal stenosis affect the brain?
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Do you know about too much spinal fluid on the brain?
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the function of the spinal cord and how does it work with the brain?
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A 42-year old asked:
Does C spinal cord injury affects brain function?
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A 39-year old asked:
If everybody has brain fluid and spinal fluid, what would make somebody need a shunt to get rid of fluid?
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A 38-year old asked:
Might it be that a person really leak brain and/or spinal fluid?
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A 48-year old asked:
Most neurons in the brain and spinal cord are not regenerated, right?
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A 22-year old female asked:
landed hard on bottom on waverunner and felt pain in lower back. felt fine shortly after. headache several hours later. brain/spinal damage likely?
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A member asked:
If u have a spinal tap and it hits a nerve can it cause bleeding on the brain if u go to the doctors with a headach and slight feaver for 8 days and they do a spinal tap on u and now u have a higher feaver and a sharp burning feeling down your leg at the
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A 43-year old asked:
What are the effects of a tumor in the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord?
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A 57-year old asked:
Is it true that steel (not titanium) Cotrel Dubousset spinal rods from 1980's heat unsafely with MRI of trunk? How about MRI of brain?
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A 45-year old asked:
How do people get paralyzed below the waist? Is the cause from a nerve in the brain or spinal cord?
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A 37-year old asked:
Which malfunction is caused by the inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord?
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A 42-year old asked:
When someone steps on your toes, this information is carried to the brain and spinal cord by what mechanism?
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A 21-year old asked:
How do arteriovenous malformations damage the brain and spinal cord?
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A 47-year old asked:
How do medulloblastomas metastasize to other parts of the brain or spinal cord?
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A 48-year old asked:
What organ is most affected by stroke? The heart/circulatory or brain and spinal cord?
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A 42-year old asked:
What will happen to the brain if one has a rather large intramedullary spinal cord tumor?
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A 39-year old female asked:
Is it possible to have a clean spinal tab and have MS? I was told I'm showing signs including the brain MRI
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A 40-year old male asked:
Is it possible to crack the skull and preserve the brain at low temperatures? without brain dying and the whole spinal cord.
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A 18-year old asked:
What kind of nerve conditions with the brain and spinal cord can a 17 yr old have that causes weird burning sensations in arm?
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A 30-year old asked:
I've heard that the brain, spinal cord and other central nervous system tissue is where mad cow disease is found. would steak be ok to eat?
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A 32-year old asked:
I am wondering if I may have Multiple Sclerosis? My symptoms are Spinal pain up and down the spine, temporay paralysis, at times sharp pains on the right side of my brain.
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A 32-year old female asked:
Why would a hospital do a second CT scan following a spinal tap? Are CT scans always of the brain?
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A 24-year old female asked:
I have had weakness, numbness, & tingling on my right side (arm, leg, face) for about 2 months. Brain & spinal MRI came back normal. What could it be?
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A 29-year old female asked:
2 years ago I was dx with transverse myelitis. Again I had another lesion on my spine close to the first one past and present brain MRI was clear should I be doing a spinal tap. Could it still be ms?
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