Neurology
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Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Surgical interventions of the nervous system are done by specialists of neurosurgery.
Neurological disorders are a group of disorders that involve the central nervous system (brain, brainstem and cerebellum), the peripheral nervous system (including cranial nerves), and the autonomic nervous system (parts of which are located in both central and peripheral nervous system). Major branches are headache, stupor and coma, dementia, seizure, sleep disorders, trauma, infections, neoplasms, neuroophthalmology, movement disorders, demyelinating diseases, spinal cord disorders, and disorders of peripheral nerves, muscle and neuromuscular junctions.
Many mental illnesses are believed to be neurological disorders of the central nervous system, but they are classified separately. They are not traditionally listed as neurological diseases because their causes are not definitely determined as biological, although there are good reasons to suspect that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia have neuro-chemical causes.
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g.back pain), signs (e.g. aphasia) and syndromes (e.g. Aicardi syndrome).
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A
- Acquired Epileptiform Aphasia
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Agnosia
- Aicardi syndrome
- Alexander disease
- Alpers' disease
- Alternating hemiplegia
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (see Motor Neurone Disease)
- Anencephaly
- Angelman syndrome
- Angiomatosis
- Anoxia
- Aphasia
- Apraxia
- Arachnoid cysts
- Arachnoiditis
- Arnold-Chiari malformation
- Arteriovenous malformation
- Asperger's syndrome
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism
- Autonomic Dysfunction
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B
- Back Pain
- Batten disease
- Behcet's disease
- Bell's palsy
- Benign Essential Blepharospasm
- Benign Focal Amyotrophy
- Benign Intracranial Hypertension
- Binswanger's disease
- Blepharospasm
- Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain abscess
- Brain injury
- Brain tumor
- Spinal tumor
- Brown-Sequard syndrome
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C
- Canavan disease
- Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)
- Causalgia
- Central pain syndrome
- Central pontine myelinolysis
- Cephalic disorder
- Cerebral aneurysm
- Cerebral arteriosclerosis
- Cerebral atrophy
- Cerebral gigantism
- Cerebral palsy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Chiari malformation
- Chorea
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Chronic pain
- Chronic regional pain syndrome
- Coffin Lowry syndrome
- Coma, including Persistent Vegetative State
- Congenital facial diplegia
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Cranial arteritis
- Craniosynostosis
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Cumulative trauma disorders
- Cushing's syndrome
- Cytomegalic inclusion body disease (CIBD)
- Cytomegalovirus Infection
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D
- Dancing eyes-dancing feet syndrome
- Dandy-Walker syndrome
- Dawson disease
- De Morsier's syndrome
- Dejerine-Klumpke palsy
- Dementia
- Dermatomyositis
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Diffuse sclerosis
- Dysautonomia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Dystonias
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E
- Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy
- Empty sella syndrome
- Encephalitis
- Encephaloceles
- Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
- Epilepsy
- Erb's palsy
- Essential tremor
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F
- Fabry's disease
- Fahr's syndrome
- Fainting
- Familial spastic paralysis
- Febrile seizures
- Fisher syndrome
- Friedreich's ataxia
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G
- Gaucher's disease
- Gerstmann's syndrome
- Giant cell arteritis
- Giant cell inclusion disease
- Globoid cell Leukodystrophy
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
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H
- HTLV-1 associated myelopathy
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Head injury
- Headache
- Hemifacial Spasm
- Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
- Herpes zoster oticus
- Herpes zoster
- Hirayama syndrome
- Holoprosencephaly
- Huntington's disease
- Hydranencephaly
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypercortisolism
- Hypoxia
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I
- Immune-Mediated encephalomyelitis
- Inclusion body myositis
- Incontinentia pigmenti
- Infantile phytanic acid storage disease
- Infantile Refsum disease
- Infantile spasms
- Inflammatory myopathy
- Intracranial cyst
- Intracranial hypertension
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J
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K
- Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Kennedy disease
- Kinsbourne syndrome
- Klippel Feil syndrome
- Krabbe disease
- Kugelberg-Welander disease
- Kuru
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L
- Lafora disease
- Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
- Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Lateral medullary (Wallenberg) syndrome
- Learning disabilities
- Leigh's disease
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
- Leukodystrophy
- Lewy body dementia
- Lissencephaly
- Locked-In syndrome
- Lou Gehrig's disease (See Motor Neurone Disease)
- Lumbar disc disease
- Lyme disease - Neurological Sequelae
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M
- Machado-Joseph disease
- Macrencephaly
- Megalencephaly
- Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
- Menieres disease
- Meningitis
- Menkes disease
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Microcephaly
- Migraine
- Miller Fisher syndrome
- Mini-Strokes
- Mitochondrial Myopathies
- Mobius syndrome
- Monomelic amyotrophy
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Moyamoya disease
- Mucopolysaccharidoses
- Multi-Infarct Dementia
- Multifocal motor neuropathy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Multiple system atrophy with postural hypotension
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myelinoclastic diffuse sclerosis
- Myoclonic encephalopathy of infants
- Myoclonus
- Myopathy
- Myotonia congenita
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N
- Narcolepsy
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Neurological manifestations of AIDS
- Neurological sequelae of lupus
- Neuromyotonia
- Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- Neuronal migration disorders
- Niemann-Pick disease
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O
- O'Sullivan-McLeod syndrome
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Occult Spinal Dysraphism Sequence
- Ohtahara syndrome
- Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
- Opsoclonus Myoclonus
- Optic neuritis
- Orthostatic Hypotension
- Overuse syndrome
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P
- Paresthesia
- Parkinson's disease
- Paramyotonia Congenita
- Paraneoplastic diseases
- Paroxysmal attacks
- Parry Romberg syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
- Periodic Paralyses
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Persistent Vegetative State
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Photic sneeze reflex
- Phytanic Acid Storage disease
- Pick's disease
- Pinched Nerve
- Pituitary Tumors
- Polymyositis
- Porencephaly
- Post-Polio syndrome
- Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN)
- Postinfectious Encephalomyelitis
- Postural Hypotension
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Primary Lateral Sclerosis
- Prion diseases
- Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- Progressive Sclerosing Poliodystrophy
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Pseudotumor cerebri
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R
- Ramsay-Hunt syndrome (Type I and Type II)
- Rasmussen's Encephalitis
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy syndrome
- Refsum disease
- Repetitive motion disorders
- Repetitive stress injury
- Restless legs syndrome
- Retrovirus-Associated Myelopathy
- Rett syndrome
- Reye's syndrome
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S
- Saint Vitus Dance
- Sandhoff disease
- Schilder's disease
- Schizencephaly
- Septo-optic dysplasia
- Shaken baby syndrome
- Shingles
- Shy-Drager syndrome
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Sleep apnea
- Soto's syndrome
- Spasticity
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal cord tumors
- Spinal muscular strophy
- Stiff-person syndrome
- Stroke
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy
- Sydenham chorea
- Syncope
- Syringomyelia
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T
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Tay-Sachs disease
- Temporal arteritis
- Tethered Spinal Cord syndrome
- Thomsen disease
- Thoracic Outlet syndrome
- Tic Douloureux
- Todd's Paralysis
- Tourette syndrome
- Transient ischemic attack
- Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
- Transverse myelitis
- Traumatic Brain injury
- Tremor
- Trigeminal neuralgia
- Tropical Spastic Paraparesis
- Tuberous sclerosis
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V
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W
- Wallenberg's syndrome
- Werdnig-Hoffman disease
- West syndrome
- Whiplash
- Williams syndrome
- Wilson's disease
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Y
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Z
The original version of this list is from the NIH public domain source at http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/
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See also
- http://www.neurology.org
- What is Biopsychology. Discussion of terms Neurology, Neuropathology, Neuropsychology, Neurosurgery, Psychology & Psychiatry
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