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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Neurologic manifestation.
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Parent topics

  • Signs and symptoms [r]: Clinical manifestations that can be either objective when observed by a physician, or subjective when perceived by the patient. [e]

Subtopics

  • Agnosia [r]: A perceptual disorder that is the loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or recognize the importance of various forms of stimulation that cannot be attributed to impairment of a primary sensory modality. [e]
  • Akathisia [r]: A feeling of restlessness associated with increased motor activity, as it may occur as a manifestation of nervous system drug toxicity or other conditions. [e]
  • Anomia [r]: A language dysfunction characterized by the inability to name people and objects that are correctly perceived. [e]
  • Aphasia [r]: A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. [e]
  • Apraxia [r]: A group of cognitive disorders characterized by the inability to perform previously learned skills that cannot be attributed to deficits of motor or sensory function. [e]
  • Ataxia [r]: Impairment of the ability to perform smoothly coordinated voluntary movements. [e]
  • Decerebrate rigidity [r]: Extensor reflexes are exaggerated leading to rigid extension of the limbs. [e]
  • Decorticate rigidity [r]: Flexion of the elbows and wrists with extension of the legs and feet. [e]
  • Dysarthria [r]: Disorders of speech articulation caused by imperfect coordination of pharynx, larynx, tongue, or face muscles. [e]
  • Prosopagnosia [r]: The inability to recognize a familiar face or to learn to recognize new faces. This visual agnosia is most often associated with lesions involving the junctional regions between the temporal and occipital lobes. [e]
  • Straight leg raise [r]: The straight leg raise, also called Lasègue sign or Lasègue test, is a test done during the physical examination to determine whether a patient with low back pain has an underlying herniated disk [e]
  • Tremor [r]: Cyclical movement of a body part that can represent either a physiologic process or a manifestation of disease. [e]

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