Neurological Disorders: Viral Induced Neurological

Neurological Disorders: Viral Induced Neurological disease can be attributed in some cases to complications of a serious nature stemming from a virus infection. This paper intends to research neurological disorders and to further research what is considered proper assessment of the patient suspected of having a neurological disorder. Neurological disorders caused by virus infections can be distinguished by those which are acute diseases and those which are chronic syndromes.

In the case of acute neurological syndromes the virus reaches the brain either by traveling throughout the blood stream or through spreading along peripheral nerves. The causes of these type neurological disorders are that of Asymptomatic Infection which is inclusive of the disease: Acute Viral Encephalitis: Symptoms include fever, headache, neck stiffness, confusion, and possibly convulsions. Flaccid Paralysis: Symptoms are that of headache, fever and affectations of paralysis to lower limbs. Aseptic meningitis: Symptoms are headache and stiffness in the neck along with a fever as well as photophobia.

Post infectious encephalomyelitis: Harder to detect due to the long incubation and slow progression of the symptoms of the disease. II. Chronic Neurological Disease: Subacute-sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) Progressive multifocal leuco-encephalopathy (PML) Retrovirus disease Spongiform encephalopathies III. Assessment of the Neurological Disease: Assessment of the patient when implementing a neurological examination starts with observation of the patient while querying the patient for health history.

Watching the pace and coordination with which the patient moves will help in the assessment as well as paying attention to the "demeanor, dress, responses, errors in language or speech patterns as well as whether or not the patient seems to have trouble with recall." The patient that is unable to pay attention or does not seem fully cognitive should tip-off the health care professional that a Mini-Mental Status Examination is in order.

This examination is inclusive of testing the patients, "orientation to time, place, person, memory, verbal and mathematical abilities, judgment and reasoning." The "norm" in motor skills testing is that an individual should be able to follow a complex command involving at least three body parts discrimination being made between the right and left side of the body.

Cranial Nerve Examination: depending on the site of the lesion the testing of the patient in the ability to identify certain distinct odors such as coffee, cloves, ammonia and so forth are used in testing the nociceptive receptors of the trigeminal, or 5th cranial nerve. The optic second, third oculomotor and fourth trocklearn as well as the 6th crnail nerves, or abducens are tested generally as a visual type test. Examination of the motor system is done through testing of the patients muscle tone.

Decreased tone in the muscle points to atrophy. The most common abnormality of movement are called "Fasciculations" which are twitches just under the skin indicating lesions in relation to the lower motor neuron. Examination of.