Encephalopathy

Encephalopathy is a descriptive term for global brain dysfunction. Depending on the cause, it can be a number of disorders with a primary cause in the brain tissue or outside the brain. The disorder itself can be reversible or irreversible, depending on the circumstances.

Examples:
 * Encephalopathy in congenital metabolic disorders, eg. some mitochondrial disorders or glycine encephalopathy
 * Hepatic encephalopathy
 * Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
 * Encephalopathy in uremic syndrome
 * Encephalopathy from eating disorders, toxonutritive encephalopathy (eg. Wernicke's encephalopathy)
 * Hypertensive encephalopathy in hypertensive crisis
 * Hypertension from chronic trauma (so-called boxer's dementia)
 * Spongiform encephalopathy (prion diseases)

Related articles

 * Metabolic and toxic encephalopathies and neuropathies
 * Rey's syndrome
 * Hepatic encephalopathy
 * Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
 * Uremic syndrome
 * Wernicke's encephalopathy
 * Hypertensive crisis
 * Prion diseases