BRAIN DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brain disorder mean? 

• BRAIN DISORDER (noun)
  The noun BRAIN DISORDER has 1 sense:

1. any disorder or disease of the brain

  Familiarity information: BRAIN DISORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIN DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disorder or disease of the brain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain disease; brain disorder; encephalopathy

Hypernyms ("brain disorder" is a kind of...):

nervous disorder; neurological disease; neurological disorder (a disorder of the nervous system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brain disorder"):

epilepsy (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)

apraxia (inability to make purposeful movements)

paralysis agitans; Parkinson's; Parkinson's disease; Parkinson's syndrome; Parkinsonism; shaking palsy (a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination)

cerebral palsy; spastic paralysis (a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth)

agraphia; anorthography; logagraphia (a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion)

acataphasia (a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner)

aphasia (inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion)

agnosia (inability to recognize objects by use of the senses)

CJD; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease (rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control)

Reye's syndrome (acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver)

Wernicke's encephalopathy (inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism)

 Context examples 

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative brain disorder.

(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person's ability to carry out daily activities.

(Alzheimer's Disease, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes people to have recurring seizures.

(Epilepsy, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

A genetic brain disorder is caused by a variation or a mutation in a gene.

(Genetic Brain Disorders, NIH)

A rare congenital brain disorder in which the cerebral hemispheres are absent and replaced by sacs that contain cerebrospinal fluid.

(Hydranencephaly, NCI Thesaurus)

A brain disorder that usually starts in late middle age or old age and gets worse over time.

(Alzheimer dementia, NCI Dictionary)

A degenerative brain disorder presenting with acute neurological manifestations.

(Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder.

(Human Cells Model Alzheimer’s Disease, NIH)

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out simple tasks.

(Viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

Autism is a complex brain disorder characterized by difficulties with social interactions and communication.

(Gene Disruptions Associated with Autism Risk, NIH)