Sverre Myren

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Nevrologisk avdeling

Ålesund sjukehus

Institutt for nevromedisin og bevegelsesvitenskap

NTNU

Institutt for helsevitenskap i Ålesund

NTNU

Forfatterbidrag: litteratursøk, analyse og tolkning av litteratur, utarbeiding og revisjon av manus samt godkjenning av innsendt manusversjon.

Sverre Myren er ph.d., spesialist i nevrologi, overlege, forsker og førsteamanuensis.

Articles by Sverre Myren

The term functional disorders should be revitalised

Helene Helgeland,
Linn Okkenhaug Getz,
Linn Breen Herner,
Erlend Bøen,
Sverre Myren

30.01.2025: A new definition of 'functional disorder' refers to changes to the functioning of the nervous system and other organ systems. This understanding has now gained wider acceptance among patients and the medical community, but the continued use of outdated terminology is still causing confusion and...

A forgettable Christmas purchase

Sverre Myren,
Titto T. Idicula,
Kjell Arne Kvistad

15.12.2015: A healthy man in his 40s was going Christmas shopping. In the car on the way there, he noticed that he was having memory problems, and that he could not recall where he had put the gifts he had bought earlier. He recounted how he had stopped the car several times to search the Internet on his...

High-flying anatomy (with a dash of clinical ornithology)

Sverre Myren,
Jostein Halgunset

29.05.2012: Knowledge about the origin of words makes it easier to understand anatomical names. Such insight can sometimes give a feeling of flying. Many anatomical expressions derive from the structures’ similarity with plants and animals. Comparative anatomy is regarded as founded by the French author Pierre...