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A  ADHD
AIDS - Neurological Complications
Absence of the Septum Pellucidum
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
Anencephaly
 
Aneurysm
Angelman Syndrome
Angiomatosis
Anoxia
Aphasia
 
Apraxia
Arachnoid Cysts
Arachnoiditis
Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Arteriovenous Malformation
 
Asperger Syndrome
Ataxia Telangiectasia
Ataxia
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
Autism
 
Autonomic Dysfunction
 
 
 
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B  Back Pain
Barth Syndrome
Batten Disease
Behcet's Disease
Bell's Palsy
 
Benign Essential Blepharospasm
Benign Focal Amyotrophy
Benign Intracranial Hypertension
Bernhardt-Roth Syndrome
Binswanger's Disease
 
Blepharospasm
Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome
Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries
Brachial Plexus Injuries
Bradbury-Eggleston Syndrome
 
Brain Aneurysm
Brain Injury
Brain and Spinal Tumors
Brown-Sequard Syndrome
Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy
 
 
 
 
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C  Canavan Disease
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Causalgia
Cavernomas
Cavernous Angioma
 
Cavernous Malformation
Central Cervical Cord Syndrome
Central Cord Syndrome
Central Pain Syndrome
Cephalic Disorders
 
Cerebellar Degeneration
Cerebellar Hypoplasia
Cerebellaris Progressiva
Cerebral Aneurysm
Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
 
Cerebral Atrophy
Cerebral Beriberi
Cerebral Gigantism
Cerebral Hypoxia
Cerebral Palsy
 
Cerebro-Oculo-Facio-Skeletal Syndrome
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
Chiari Malformation
Chorea
Choreoacanthocytosis
 
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance
Chronic Pain
Cockayne Syndrome Type II
Coffin Lowry Syndrome
 
Coma, including Persistent Vegetative State
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Congenital Facial Diplegia
Congenital Myasthenia
Congenital Myopathy
 
Congenital Vascular Cavernous Malformations
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
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
 
Dejerine-Klumpke Palsy
Dementia - Multi-Infarct
Dementia - Subcortical
Dementia With Lewy Bodies
Dentate Cerebellar Ataxia
 
Dentatorubral Atrophy
Dermatomyositis
Developmental Dyspraxia
Devic's Syndrome
Diabetic Neuropathy
 
Diffuse Sclerosis
Dysautonomia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dysphagia
 
Dyspraxia
Dyssynergia Cerebellaris Progressiva
Dystonias
 
 
 
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E  Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy
Empty Sella Syndrome
Encephalitis Lethargica
Encephalitis and Meningitis
Encephaloceles
 
Encephalopathy
Encephalotrigeminal Angiomatosis
Epilepsy
Erb's Palsy
Erb-Duchenne and Dejerine-Klumpke Palsies
 
 
 
 
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F  Fabry's Disease
Fahr's Syndrome
Fainting
Familial Dysautonomia
Familial Hemangioma
 
Familial Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification
Familial Periodic Paralyses
Familial Spastic Paralysis
Febrile Seizures
Fisher Syndrome
 
Floppy Infant Syndrome
Friedreich's Ataxia
 
 
 
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G  Gaucher's Disease
Gerstmann's Syndrome
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease
Giant Cell Arteritis
Giant Cell Inclusion Disease
 
Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy
Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
 
 
 
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H  HTLV-1 Associated Myelopathy
Hallervorden-Spatz Disease
Head Injury
Headache
Hemicrania Continua
 
Hemifacial Spasm
Hemiplegia Alterans
Hereditary Neuropathies
Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
Heredopathia Atactica Polyneuritiformis
 
Herpes Zoster Oticus
Herpes Zoster
Hirayama Syndrome
Holoprosencephaly
Huntington's Disease
 
Hydranencephaly
Hydrocephalus - Normal Pressure
Hydrocephalus
Hydromyelia
Hypercortisolism
 
Hypersomnia
Hypertonia
Hypotonia
Hypoxia
 
 
 
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I  Immune-Mediated Encephalomyelitis
Inclusion Body Myositis
Incontinentia Pigmenti
Infantile Hypotonia
Infantile Phytanic Acid Storage Disease
 
Infantile Refsum Disease
Infantile Spasms
Inflammatory Myopathy
Intestinal Lipodystrophy
Intracranial Cysts
 
Intracranial Hypertension
Isaac's Syndrome
 
 
 
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J  Joubert Syndrome
 
 
 
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K  Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
Kennedy’s Disease
Kinsbourne syndrome
Kleine-Levin syndrome
Klippel Feil Syndrome
 
Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome (KTS)
Klüver-Bucy Syndrome
Korsakoff's Amnesic Syndrome
Krabbe Disease
Kugelberg-Welander Disease
 
Kuru
 
 
 
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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
Leukodystrophy
Levine-Critchley Syndrome
 
Lewy Body Dementia
Lissencephaly
Locked-In Syndrome
Lou Gehrig's Disease
Lupus - Neurological Sequelae
 
Lyme Disease - Neurological Complications
 
 
 
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M  Machado-Joseph Disease
Macrencephaly
Megalencephaly
Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome
Meningitis
 
Menkes Disease
Meralgia Paresthetica
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
Microcephaly
Migraine
 
Miller Fisher Syndrome
Mini-Strokes
Mitochondrial Myopathies
Mobius Syndrome
Monomelic Amyotrophy
 
Motor Neuron Diseases
Moyamoya Disease
Mucolipidoses
Mucopolysaccharidoses
Multi-Infarct Dementia
 
Multifocal Motor Neuropathy
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple System Atrophy with Orthostatic Hypotension
Multiple System Atrophy
Muscular Dystrophy
 
Myasthenia - Congenital
Myasthenia Gravis
Myelinoclastic Diffuse Sclerosis
Myoclonic Encephalopathy of Infants
Myoclonus
 
Myopathy - Congenital
Myopathy - Thyrotoxic
Myopathy
Myotonia Congenita
Myotonia
 
 
 
 
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N  Narcolepsy
Neuroacanthocytosis
Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation
Neurofibromatosis
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
 
Neurological Complications Of Lyme Disease
Neurological Complications of AIDS
Neurological Manifestations of Pompe Disease
Neurological Sequelae Of Lupus
Neuromyelitis Optica
 
Neuromyotonia
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
Neuronal Migration Disorders
Neuropathy - Hereditary
Neurosarcoidosis
 
Neurotoxicity
Nevus Cavernosus
Niemann-Pick Disease
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
 
 
 
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O  O'Sullivan-McLeod Syndrome
Occipital Neuralgia
Occult Spinal Dysraphism Sequence
Ohtahara Syndrome
Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
 
Opsoclonus Myoclonus
Orthostatic Hypotension
Overuse Syndrome
 
 
 
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P  Pain - Chronic
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Paresthesia
Parkinson's Disease
Parmyotonia Congenita
 
Paroxysmal Choreoathetosis
Paroxysmal Hemicrania
Parry-Romberg
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
Pinched Nerve
Piriformis Syndrome
 
Pituitary Tumors
Polymyositis
Pompe Disease
Porencephaly
Post-Polio Syndrome
 
Postherpetic Neuralgia
Postinfectious Encephalomyelitis
Postural Hypotension
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
 
Primary Dentatum Atrophy
Primary Lateral Sclerosis
Prion Diseases
Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy
Progressive Locomotor Ataxia
 
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Progressive Sclerosing Poliodystrophy
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Pseudotumor Cerebri
 
 
 
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R  Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
Rasmussen's Encephalitis
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
Refsum Disease - Infantile
Refsum Disease
 
Repetitive Motion Disorders
Repetitive Stress Injuries
Restless Legs Syndrome
Retrovirus-Associated Myelopathy
Rett Syndrome
 
Reye's Syndrome
Riley-Day Syndrome
 
 
 
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S  SUNCT Headache
Sacral Nerve Root Cysts
Saint Vitus Dance
Salivary Gland Disease
Sandhoff Disease
 
Schilder's Disease
Schizencephaly
Seizure Disorder
Septo-Optic Dysplasia
Shaken Baby Syndrome
 
Shingles
Shy-Drager Syndrome
Sjogren's Syndrome
Sleep Apnea
Sleeping Sickness
 
Soto's Syndrome
Spasticity
Spina Bifida
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
Stroke
Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
 
Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy
Swallowing Disorders
Sydenham Chorea
Syncope
Syphilitic Spinal Sclerosis
 
Syringohydromyelia
Syringomyelia
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
 
 
 
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T  Tabes Dorsalis
Tardive Dyskinesia
Tarlov Cysts
Tay-Sachs Disease
Temporal Arteritis
 
Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome
Thomsen Disease
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Thyrotoxic Myopathy
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  Vascular Erectile Tumor
Vasculitis including Temporal Arteritis
Von Economo’s Disease
Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL)
Von Recklinghausen's Disease
 
 
 
 
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W  Wallenberg's Syndrome
Werdnig-Hoffman Disease
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
West Syndrome
Whiplash
 
Whipple's Disease
Williams Syndrome
Wilson's Disease
 
 
 
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X  X-Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
 
 
 
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Z  Zellweger Syndrome


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