The doctor told about myths about the treatment and prevention of brain diseases

There are a lot of myths about the treatment and prevention of brain diseases that experts are trying to combat. On March 12, the deputy chief physician of the University Clinical Hospital No. 3 of Sechenov University, neurologist Ksenia Shevtsova, told Izvestia about this.

"So, it is widely believed that a headache occurs due to constricted vessels in the neck. Or, for example, if you have a headache, then you definitely need to measure the pressure, since, most likely, the pressure is elevated, so it needs to be reduced. This is absolutely not the case, because blood pressure rises as a reaction to stress, because headaches are extremely stressful for the body," she said.

Also, many people believe that dizziness indicates a stroke. According to her, all patients with this symptom are taken to the neurological department, and neurologists have to partially take over the function of otolaryngologists. They promptly diagnose a stroke or systemic vertigo associated with the movement of otoliths in the middle ear in the semicircular canals.

The most common are neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, as well as a number of demyelinating diseases of the peripheral nervous system, such as Guillain–Barre syndrome, as well as epilepsy, she noted.

"Alzheimer's disease is really getting younger. And today it is one of the most frequent factors of memory loss. It has long been proven that proper sleep with a certain duration and stage correlates with the elimination of beta-amyloid from the body, the deposition of which causes the development of Alzheimer's disease. Its correlation with chronic headache has also been proven," Shevtsova said.

According to her, the disease is currently being diagnosed at the earliest stages. By evaluating specific markers in the cerebrospinal fluid (cerebrospinal fluid. At a time when a person's memory is declining, it is possible to predict with high accuracy whether a person has this disease or not. Shevtsova also announced Sechenov University's plans to create a biomaterial bank for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

She stressed that the structure of the human brain has been studied and is known, but neuroplasticity is a property that scientists have yet to understand. Neurologists are also in the process of studying the effectiveness of drug delivery inside the nervous system, since it is located behind the blood-brain barrier.

Earlier, on March 10, ophthalmologist, laser surgeon at SM Clinic, PhD Svetlana Mirgorodskaya told Izvestia about the danger of flies in front of their eyes. The most common cause of their appearance is the destruction of the vitreous body. According to her, this is a physiological process that occurs at a certain age for everyone. The second reason is hemorrhages in the vitreous cavity, that is, inside the eye. The symptoms are similar to the destruction of the vitreous body, but sometimes a "trickle" or "blot" appears in front of the eyes at first.