Brain disorders
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This article is about physical disorders of the brain. See Mental disorders for clinical psychological and psychiatric difficulties.
Brain disorders and brain damage can occur due to a number of factors:
- Genetic
- Physical illness
- Physical injury
- Substance abuse
Disorders and minimal brain disorders include :
- Acute alcoholic intoxication
- Ancephaly
- Aphasia
- Athetosis
- Brain neoplasms
- Cerebral atrophy
- Cerebral palsy
- Cerebrovascular accidents
- Chronic alcoholic intoxication
- Encephalitis
- Encephalopathies
- Epilepsy
- Epileptic seizures
- Hydrocephaly
- Microcephaly
- Organic brain syndromes
- Parkinsons disease
- Rett syndrome
