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Neurological Disorders

This is a list of most neurological disorders, neurological symptoms, and neurological diseases. Each link will take you to a page with more information. Most links will take you to a page describing the neurological disorder, symptom, or disease as provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

If you know of a major neurological disorder, symptom, or disease involving the nervous system not listed here, please let us know.

A

Absence of the Septum Pellucidum

Acid Lipase Disease

Acid Maltase Deficiency

Acquired Epileptiform Aphasia

Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

Adie’s Syndrome

Adrenoleukodystrophy

Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum

Aicardi Syndrome

Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome

AIDS – Neurological Complications

Alexander Disease

Alpers’ Disease

Alternating Hemiplegia

Alzheimer’s Disease

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Angelman Syndrome

Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Anxiety Disorders (Types: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobia-Related Disorders)

Arachnoid Cysts

Arnold-Chiari Malformation

Arteriovenous Malformation

Asperger Syndrome

Ataxia Telangiectasia

Ataxias and Cerebellar or Spinocerebellar Degeneration

Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke

Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autonomic Dysfunction

B

Becker’s Myotonia

Behcet’s Disease

Benign Essential Blepharospasm

Benign Focal Amyotrophy

Benign Intracranial Hypertension

Bernhardt-Roth Syndrome

Binswanger’s Disease

Bipolar Disorder (aka Manic-Depressive Illness, Manic Depression. Types: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Cyclothymic, Other Specified and Unspecified)

Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome

Brachial Plexus Injuries

Bradbury-Eggleston Syndrome

Brain and Spinal Tumors

Brown-Sequard Syndrome

Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy

C

Canavan Disease

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Cavernous Angioma

Cavernous Malformation

Central Cervical Cord Syndrome

Central Cord Syndrome

Central Pain Syndrome

Central Pontine Myelinolysis

Cephalic Disorders

Ceramidase Deficiency

Cerebellar Degeneration

Cerebellar Hypoplasia

Cerebral Aneurysms

Cerebral Arteriosclerosis

Cerebral Atrophy

Cerebral Beriberi

Cerebral Cavernous Malformation

Cerebral Gigantism

Cerebral Hypoxia

Cerebro-Oculo-Facio-Skeletal Syndrome (COFS)

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Chiari Malformation

Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease

Choreoacanthocytosis

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)

Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance

Clinical Depression (aka Major Depressive Disorder or Depression)

Cockayne Syndrome Type II

Coffin Lowry Syndrome

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Congenital Facial Diplegia

Congenital Myasthenia

Congenital Myopathy

Congenital Vascular Cavernous Malformations

Corticobasal Degeneration

Cranial Arteritis

Craniosynostosis

Cree encephalitis

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Cumulative Trauma Disorders

Cushing’s Syndrome

Cyclothymic Disorder (aka Cyclothymia, Bipolar Disorder, Manic-Depressive Illness, Manic Depression)

Cytomegalic Inclusion Body Disease

Cytomegalovirus Infection

D

Dancing Eyes-Dancing Feet Syndrome

Dandy-Walker Syndrome

De Morsier’s Syndrome Information

Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders

Dejerine-Klumpke Palsy

Dementia – Multi-Infarct

Dementia – Semantic

Dementia – Subcortical

Dementia With Lewy Bodies

Dentate Cerebellar Ataxia

Dentatorubral Atrophy

Depression (aka Major Depressive Disorder or Clinical Depression)

Dermatomyositis

Developmental Dyspraxia

Devic’s Syndrome

Diabetic Neuropathy

Diffuse Sclerosis

Dravet Syndrome

Dyssynergia Cerebellaris Myoclonica

Dyssynergia Cerebellaris Progressiva

E

Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy

Empty Sella Syndrome

Encephalitis Lethargica

Encephalopathy (familial infantile)

Encephalotrigeminal Angiomatosis

Epileptic Hemiplegia

Erb-Duchenne and Dejerine-Klumpke Palsies

Essential Tremor

Extrapontine Myelinolysis

F

Fahr’s Syndrome

Familial Dysautonomia

Familial Hemangioma

Familial Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification

Familial Periodic Paralyses

Familial Spastic Paralysis

Farber’s Disease

Febrile Seizures

Fibromuscular Dysplasia

Fisher Syndrome

Floppy Infant Syndrome

Friedreich Ataxia

Frontotemporal Dementia

G

Gaucher Disease

Generalized Gangliosidoses

Gerstmann’s Syndrome

Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease

Giant Axonal Neuropathy

Giant Cell Arteritis

Giant Cell Inclusion Disease

Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy

Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia

Glycogen Storage Disease

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

H

Hallervorden-Spatz Disease

Hemicrania Continua

Hemifacial Spasm

Hemiplegia Alterans

Hereditary Neuropathies

Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia

Heredopathia Atactica Polyneuritiformis

Herpes Zoster Oticus

Hirayama Syndrome

Holmes-Adie Syndrome

Holoprosencephaly

HTLV-1 Associated Myelopathy

Hughes Syndrome

Huntington’s Disease

Hydranencephaly

Hydrocephalus – Normal Pressure

Hypercortisolism

I

Immune-Mediated Encephalomyelitis

Inclusion Body Myositis

Incontinentia Pigmenti

Infantile Hypotonia

Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy

Infantile Phytanic Acid Storage Disease

Infantile Refsum Disease

Infantile Spasms

Inflammatory Myopathies

Intestinal Lipodystrophy

Intracranial Cysts

Intracranial Hypertension

Isaacs’ Syndrome

J

Joubert Syndrome

K

Kearns-Sayre Syndrome

Kennedy’s Disease

Kinsbourne syndrome

Kleine-Levin Syndrome

Klinefelter Syndrome (aka 47,XXY Syndrome, XXY Syndrome and Klinefelter-Reifenstein-Albright Syndrome

Klippel-Feil Syndrome

Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome (KTS)

Klüver-Bucy Syndrome

Korsakoff’s Amnesic Syndrome

Kugelberg-Welander Disease

L

Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome

Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment

Lateral Medullary Syndrome

Learning Disabilities

Leigh’s Disease

Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome

Levine-Critchley Syndrome

Lewy Body Dementia

Lipid Storage Diseases

Lipoid Proteinosis

Locked-In Syndrome

Lou Gehrig’s Disease

Lupus – Neurological Sequelae

Lyme Disease – Neurological Complications

M

Machado-Joseph Disease

Major Depression (aka Major Depressive Disorder, Depression or Clinical Depression)

Major Depressive Disorder (aka Major Depression, Depression or Clinical Depression)

Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome

Meningitis and Encephalitis

Meralgia Paresthetica

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy

Miller Fisher Syndrome

Mitochondrial Myopathies

Moebius Syndrome

Monomelic Amyotrophy

Motor Neuron Diseases

Moyamoya Disease

Mucopolysaccharidoses

Multi-Infarct Dementia

Multifocal Motor Neuropathy

Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple System Atrophy

Multiple System Atrophy with Orthostatic Hypotension

Muscular Dystrophy

Myasthenia – Congenital

Myasthenia Gravis

Myelinoclastic Diffuse Sclerosis

Myoclonic Encephalopathy of Infants

Myopathy – Congenital

Myopathy – Thyrotoxic

Myotonia Congenita

N

Neuroacanthocytosis

Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation

Neurofibromatosis

Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome

Neurological Complications of AIDS

Neurological Complications of Lyme Disease

Neurological Consequences of Cytomegalovirus Infection

Neurological Manifestations of Pompe Disease

Neurological Sequelae Of Lupus

Neuromyelitis Optica

Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis

Neuronal Migration Disorders

Neuropathy – Hereditary

Neurosarcoidosis

Niemann-Pick Disease

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

O

O’Sullivan-McLeod Syndrome

Occipital Neuralgia

Ohtahara Syndrome

Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy

Opsoclonus Myoclonus

Orthostatic Hypotension

Overuse Syndrome

P

Pain – Chronic

Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration

Paraneoplastic Syndromes

Parkinson’s Disease

Paroxysmal Choreoathetosis

Paroxysmal Hemicrania

Parry-Romberg Syndrome

Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease

Pena Shokeir II Syndrome

Perineural Cysts

Periodic Paralyses

Peripheral Neuropathy

Periventricular Leukomalacia

Persistent Vegetative State

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Phytanic Acid Storage Disease

Pick’s Disease

Piriformis Syndrome

Pituitary Tumors

Post-Polio Syndrome

Postherpetic Neuralgia

Postinfectious Encephalomyelitis

Postural Hypotension

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

Primary Dentatum Atrophy

Primary Lateral Sclerosis

Primary Progressive Aphasia

Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy

Progressive Locomotor Ataxia

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

Progressive Sclerosing Poliodystrophy

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Pseudo-Torch syndrome

Pseudotoxoplasmosis syndrome

Pseudotumor Cerebri

Psychogenic Movement

Q

R

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome I

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome II

Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome

Refsum Disease – Infantile

Repetitive Motion Disorders

Repetitive Stress Injuries

Restless Legs Syndrome

Retrovirus-Associated Myelopathy

Reye’s Syndrome

Rheumatic Encephalitis

Riley-Day Syndrome

S

Sacral Nerve Root Cysts

Saint Vitus Dance

Salivary Gland Disease

Sandhoff Disease

Schilder’s Disease

Schizoaffective Disorder

Seitelberger Disease

Seizure Disorder

Semantic Dementia

Septo-Optic Dysplasia

Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI)

Shaken Baby Syndrome

Shy-Drager Syndrome

Sjögren’s Syndrome

Sleeping Sickness

Spinal Cord Infarction

Spinal Cord Injury

Spinal Cord Tumors

Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Spinocerebellar Atrophy

Spinocerebellar Degeneration

Steele-Richardson-Olszewski Syndrome

Stiff-Person Syndrome

Striatonigral Degeneration

Sturge-Weber Syndrome

Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis

Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy

Swallowing Disorders

Sydenham Chorea

Syphilitic Spinal Sclerosis

Syringohydromyelia

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

T

Tardive Dyskinesia

Tay-Sachs Disease

Temporal Arteritis

Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome

Thomsen’s Myotonia

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

Thyrotoxic Myopathy

Todd’s Paralysis

Tourette Syndrome

Transient Ischemic Attack

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

Transverse Myelitis

Traumatic Brain Injury

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Tropical Spastic Paraparesis

Troyer Syndrome

Tuberous Sclerosis

U

V

Vascular Erectile Tumor

Vasculitis Syndromes of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

Von Economo’s Disease

Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL)

Von Recklinghausen’s Disease

W

Wallenberg’s Syndrome

Werdnig-Hoffman Disease

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome

Whipple’s Disease

Williams Syndrome

Wolman’s Disease

X

X-Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy

X-Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy

XXY Syndrome (aka 47,XXY Syndrome, Klinefelter Syndrome and Klinefelter-Reifenstein-Albright Syndrome

Y

Z

Zellweger Syndrome

Notes about this neurological disorder page

If you know of a neurological disorder not listed on this page, please contact us and let us know.

Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – A part of the National Institute of Health.