1. General Pathology
    2. 1. The Cell as a Unit of Health and Disease
    2. Cellular Response to Stress and Toxic Insults
    3. Inflammation and Repair
    4. Hemodynamic Disorders, Thromboembolic Disease, and Shock
    5. Genetic Disorders
    6. Diseases of the Immune System
    7. Neoplasia
    8. Infectious Diseases
    9. Environmental and Nutritional Diseases
    10. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
  2. Systemic Pathology: Diseases of Organ Systems
    3. 11. Blood vessels
    12. The Heart
    13. Diseases of White Blood Cells, Lymph Nodes, Spleen, and Thymus
    14. Red Blood Cell and Bleeding Disorders
    15. The Lung
    16. Head and Neck
    17. The Gastrointestinal Tract
    18. Liver and Gallbladder
    19. The Pancreas
    20. The Kidney
    21. The Lower Urinary Tract and Male Genital System
    22. The Female Genital Tract
    23. The Breast
    24. The Endocrine System
    25. The Skin
    26. Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Tumors
    27. Peripheral Nerves and Skeletal Muscles
    28. The Central Nervous System
    29. The Eye
Systemic Pathology: Diseases of Organ Systems
28. The Central Nervous System
CELLULAR PATHOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Reactions of Neurons to Injury
Reactions of Astrocytes to Injury
Reactions of Microglia to Injury
Reactions of Other Glial Cells to Injury
CEREBRAL EDEMA, HYDROCEPHALUS, AND RAISED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE AND HERNIATION
Cerebral Edema
Hydrocephalus
Raised Intracranial Pressure and Herniation
MALFORMATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Neural Tube Defects
Forebrain Anomalies
Posterior Fossa Anomalies
Syringomyelia and Hydromyelia
PERINATAL BRAIN INJURY
TRAUMA
Skull Fractures
Parenchymal Injuries
Concussion
Direct Parenchymal Injury
Diffuse Axonal Injury
Traumatic Vascular Injury
Epidural Hematoma
Subdural Hematoma
Sequelae of Brain Truama
Spinal Cord Injury
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
Hypoxia, Ischemia, and Infarction
Global Cerebral Ischemia
Focal Cerebral Ischemia
Hypertensive Cerebrovascular Disease
Lacunar Infarcts
Slit Hemorrhages
Hypertensive Encephalopathy
Intracranial Hemorrhage
Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Ruptured Saccular Aneurysms
Vascular Malformations
INFECTIONS
Acute Meningitis
Acute Pygonic (Bacterial) Meningitis
Acute Aseptic (Viral) Meningitis
Chronic Meningitis
Acute Focal Suppurative Infections
Brain Abscess
Subdural Empyema
Extradural Abscess
Chronic Bacterial Meningoencephalitis
Tuberculosis
Neurosyphilis
Neuroborreliosis (Lyme Disease)
Viral Meningoencephalitis
Arthopod-Borne Viral Encephalitis
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2
Varicella-Zoster Virus (Herpes Zoster)
Cytomegalovirus
Poliomyelitis
Rabies
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Fungal Meningoencephalitis
Other Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System
PRION DISEASES
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI)
DEMYELINATING DISEASES
Multiple Sclerosis
Neuromyelitis Optica
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis and Acute Necrotizing Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitis
Central Pontine Myelinolysis
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Alzheimer Disease
Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations (FTLDs)
FTLD-Tau
FTLD-TDP
Parkinson Disease (PD)
Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Atypical Parkinsonism Syndromes
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
Corticobasal Degeneration
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)
Huntington Disease
Spinocerebellar Degenerations
Spinocerebellar Ataxias
Friedreich Ataxia
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Other Motor Neuron Diseases
Spinaol and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (Kennedy Disease)
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Genetic Metabolic Diseases
Neuronal Storage Diseases
Leukodystrophies
Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies
Toxic and Acquired Metabolic Diseases
Vitamin Deficiencies
Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency
Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Neurologic Sequelae of Metabolic Disturbances
Hypoglycemia
Hyperglycemia
Hepatic Encephalopathy
Toxic Disorders
Carbon Monoxide
Methanol
Ethanol
Radiation
TUMORS
Gliomas
Astrocytoma
Oligodendroglioma
Ependymoma and Related Paraventricular Mass Lesions
Neuronal Tumors
Poorly Differentiated Neoplasma
Medulloblastoma
Atypical Teratoid/ Rhabdoid Tumor
Other Parenchumal Tumors
Primary CNS Lymphoma
Germ Cell Tumors
Pineal Parenchymal Tumors
Meningiomas
Metastatic Tumors
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Familial Tumor Syndromes
Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Von Hippel-Lindau Disease
Neurofibromatosis