The nervous system is a complex, highly specialized network. It organizes, explains, and directs interactions between you and the world around you -- your senses, your ability to think, and the muscles that perform your reactions to the world. As you can imagine, in such a complex system, problems in different parts of the system will have very different symptoms.
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