Diseases of the Nervous System.pptVIP

* * Chapter 14 Diseases of the Nervous System 南通大学基础医学院 Chen li The specificness of diseases of the nervous system: 1 The localization of function in the CNS, which has four major consequences: (1) The brain is vulnerable to small focal lesions that would be asymptomatic in other organs. (2) The same pathologic process manifests in a different way when it affects a different part of the system ，e.g. meningioma :in the factory groove ---anosmia ， at the foramen magnum ---progressive quadriparesis. (3) There are regions of selective vulnerability to particular pathologic