Brain Conditions

The brain controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates our body. Ensuring its stability and optimum function is key to a strong nervous system. Here are some of the ways we at the Cognito Neuro-Science Institute support this:

Brain tumours

A brain tumour is a mass of abnormal cells in the brain. When tumours grow, they can increase the pressure within your skull, which can cause brain damage and death.

How a brain tumour is treated depends on the type, location, and size of the tumour, as well as your general health. Surgery is the most common solution, where we’ll remove the cancer without causing damage to the healthy parts of the brain. Radiation and chemotherapy are also viable interventions.

Neurovascular Compression Syndromes

Neurovascular Compression Syndrome is a range of vascular compression disorders where a cranial nerve is compressed or compromised, often by a blood vessel. The particular nerves being compressed will cause different kinds of pain or dysfunction. Some of these disorders can be treated medically, but most require surgery. Symptoms include pain in the face, ear, or throat and facial twitching.

Brain malformations

A brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a tangled cluster of blood vessels connecting arteries and veins in the brain. It compromises the process of how blood travels in the body. People with AVMs experience headaches, seizures, and internal bleeding. We treat AVMs surgically to prevent the arteriovenous cluster from haemorrhaging, but treatments for seizures and other resultant issues are also used.

Brain cyst

Brain cysts are fluid-filled sacs that form in the brain, often at birth, but also as a result of cancer or a head injury. Even noncancerous cysts require intervention, as they may cause a pressure build-up or obstruct processes in the brain. Dr Jokonya can expertly remove the cyst with various kinds of surgery, but if it’s small, he may recommend simply monitoring it and ensuring it’s stable.

Brain abscess

A brain abscess is a pus-filled sac of infected material that’s classified as a medical emergency, with symptoms such as headache, fever, lapses in consciousness, confusion, vomiting, vision problems, and seizures. We treat brain abscesses with antibiotics and or steroids and other medication to prevent seizures. Surgery may be required to drain or remove the abscess.

Brain aneurysms

A brain aneurysm is when an area in the wall of a blood vessel weakens and balloons. If it gets bigger, it can burst and bleed into the brain; and may cause a stroke. The treatment of an aneurysm depends on its size, location, and its risk of rupturing but will usually entail surgery to close the artery, divert the flow of blood around the ballooned artery, or clip off the blood supply to the artery, so it doesn’t rupture (or to control a rupture).