The following disease is related with the pons:
Central pontine myelinolysis- a disease that causes difficulty with keeping balance, walking, the sense of touch, swallowing and speaking.
- Treatment is available to help with the symptoms.
- If undiagnosed it can lead to death, or locked in syndrome (inability to move your body, other than blink eyes).
- This disease is a brain cell dysfunction because of the destruction of myelin sheath (a layer that covers nerve cells in the pons). It doesn’t allow for signals to be transmitted properly.
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