Neurodegenerative disease

Neurodegenerative disease is a condition which affects the brain function. Neurodegenerative diseases result from deterioration of neurons. They are divided into two groups:

1. conditions causing problems with movements
2. conditions affecting memory and conditions related to dementia

List of neurodegenerative diseases

• Alexander disease
• Alper's disease
• Alzheimer disease
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Ataxia Telangiectasia
• Canavan disease
• Cockayne syndrome
• Corticobasal Degeneration
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Huntington disease
• Kennedy's disease
• Krabbe disease
• Lewy body dementia
• Machado-Joseph disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson disease
• Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
• Pick's disease
• Primary lateral sclerosis
• Refsum's disease
• Sandhoff disease
• Schilder's disease
• Steele-Richardson-Olszewski disease
• Tabes dorsalis

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