Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune mediated disease of brain. It usually occurs following a viral infection or vaccination, but it may also appear spontaneously. A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. ... In the anatomy of animals, the brain, or encephalon, is the supervisory center of the nervous system. ... A common alternate meaning of virus is computer virus. ... An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. ... Vaccination is a term coined by Edward Jenner for the process of administering a weakened form of a disease to patients as a means of giving them immunity to a more serious form of the disease. ...

There are multiple inflammatory cell deposits in the brain, particularly in the section called white matter. Although it occurs in all ages, most reported cases are in children and young adults. White matter is one of two categories of tissue in the nervous system. ... A young adult is an informal term used to describe the transition from teenager to adult. ...

It has an abrupt onset and a monophasic course. Symptoms usually begins 1-3 weeks after infection or vaccination. Major symptoms are fever, headache, drowsiness, seizures and coma. Although initially the symptoms are usually mild, later in the course of the disease patients may even die, if they are not treated properly. Some patients recover completely, while others have permanent neurological impairments. Fever is also the name of an album by Kylie Minogue. ... A headache is a condition of mild to severe pain in the head; sometimes upper back or neck pain may also be interpreted as a headache. ... This article is about the medical condition. ... In medicine, a coma (from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness, which may result from a variety of conditions including intoxication (drug, alcohol or toxins), metabolic abnormalities (hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis, etc. ...

The first treatment is usually steroids and intensive care is often required. A steroid is a type of lipid, characterized by a carbon skeleton with four fused rings. ... Intensive care medicine or critical care medicine is concerned with providing greater than ordinary medical care and observation to people in a critical or unstable condition. ...

External links

• Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) (http://www.myelitis.org/adem.htm)