Neurodegenerative disease
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Neurodegenerative disease (Greek νέυρο-, néuro-, "nerval" and Latin dēgenerāre, "to decline" or "to worsen") is a condition which affects brain function. Neurodegenerative diseases result from deterioration of neurons. They are divided into two groups:
- conditions causing problems with movements
- conditions affecting memory and conditions related to dementia
[edit] List of neurodegenerative diseases
- Alexander disease
- Alper's disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Batten disease (also known as Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjogren-Batten disease)
- Canavan disease
- Cockayne syndrome
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Huntington disease
- HIV-associated dementia
- Kennedy's disease
- Krabbe disease
- Lewy body dementia
- Machado-Joseph disease (Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3)
- Multiple sclerosis
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Parkinson disease
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
- Pick's disease
- Primary lateral sclerosis
- Refsum's disease
- Sandhoff disease
- Schilder's disease
- Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjogren-Batten disease (also known as Batten disease)
- Spinocerebellar ataxia (multiple types with varying characteristics)
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Steele-Richardson-Olszewski disease
- Tabes dorsalis
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