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Brain diseases
Brain diseases include many different areas and etiologies, but generically this refers to disorders of the brain tissue. They can be grouped into six categories, each of which requires a different treatment: tumors, traumatic in nature, neurodegenerative (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's), congenital, infectious, or cerebrovascular.
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Why are mental illnesses considered as brain diseases?
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Is a mental illness also considered a brain disease?
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Can you get a brain disease as a child, or do you have to be born with it?
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Treatment for chronic demyelinating brain disease?
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Is ischemic microvascular brain disease related to stroke?
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