List of neurological disorders - Definition and Overview

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).

Contents: Top - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

B

• Back Pain
• Batten disease
• Behcet's disease
• Bell's palsy
• Benign Essential Blepharospasm
• Benign Focal Amyotrophy
• Benign Intracranial Hypertension
• BFPP
• Binswanger's disease
• Blepharospasm
• Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome
• Brachial plexus injury
• Brain abscess
• Brain injury
• Brain tumor
• Spinal tumor
• Brown-Sequard syndrome

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

D

• Dancing eyes-dancing feet syndrome
• Dandy-Walker syndrome
• Dawson disease
• De Morsier's syndrome
• Dejerine-Klumpke palsy
• Dejerine-Sottas disease
• Dementia
• Dermatomyositis
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Diffuse sclerosis
• Dysautonomia
• Dysgraphia
• Dyslexia
• Dystonias

E

• Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy
• Empty sella syndrome
• Encephalitis
• Encephaloceles
• Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
• Epilepsy
• Erb's palsy
• Essential tremor

F

• Fabry's disease
• Fahr's syndrome
• Fainting
• Familial spastic paralysis
• Febrile seizures
• Fisher syndrome
• Friedreich's ataxia

G

• Gaucher's disease
• Gerstmann's syndrome
• Giant cell arteritis
• Giant cell inclusion disease
• Globoid cell Leukodystrophy
• Guillain-Barré syndrome

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

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

J

• Joubert syndrome

K

• Kearns-Sayre syndrome
• Kennedy disease
• Kinsbourne syndrome
• Klippel Feil syndrome
• Krabbe disease
• Kugelberg-Welander disease
• Kuru

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

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

N

• Narcolepsy
• Neurofibromatosis
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• Neurological manifestations of AIDS
• Neurological sequelae of lupus
• Neuromyotonia
• Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
• Neuronal migration disorders
• Niemann-Pick disease

O

• O'Sullivan-McLeod syndrome
• Occipital Neuralgia
• Occult Spinal Dysraphism Sequence
• Ohtahara syndrome
• Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
• Opsoclonus Myoclonus
• Optic neuritis
• Orthostatic Hypotension
• Overuse syndrome

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
• PMG
• Polymicrogyria
• Polymicrogyria, bilateral frontoparietal
• 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

Q

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

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
• Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, see Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
• Stiff-person syndrome
• Stroke
• Sturge-Weber syndrome
• Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
• Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy
• Sydenham chorea
• Syncope
• Syringomyelia

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

U

• Vasculitis including temporal arteritis
• Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL)

V

W

• Wallenberg's syndrome
• Werdnig-Hoffman disease
• West syndrome
• Whiplash
• Williams syndrome
• Wilson's disease

X

Y

Z

• Zellweger syndrome

The original version of this list is from the NIH public domain [1] (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/)