Confidence votes 3.6K. Cortisol overproduction can also be caused by many different types of tumors resulting in abnormalities in the function or regulation of the adrenal or pituitary glands. However, if your body relies on a stress hormone like cortisol too muchâ¦. 2  Iatrogenic Cushing's Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment Iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome refers to a hormonal disorder that occurs due to the exposure of high cortisol levels. 3  Cortisol is a hormone whose production occurs in the adreâ¦.
Mesial temporal sclerosis (also known as hippocampal sclerosis) can cause a form of temporal lobe epilepsy with partial (focus) seizures that can spread or secondarily generalize and affect other areas of the brain. Treatments for temporal lobe epilepsy caused by mesial temporal sclerosis can include anticonvulsant medications and surgery.
In Alzheimer's disease, the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain to suffer damage; memory loss and disorientation are included among the early symptoms.Damage to the hippocampus can also result from oxygen starvation (hypoxia), encephalitis, or medial temporal lobe epilepsy.oday, the structure is called the hippocampus rather than hippocampus major, with pes hippocampi often being regarded as synonymous with De Garengeot's cornu Ammonis, a term that survives in the names of the four main histological divisions of the hippocampus: CA1, CA2, CA3, and CA4.