Neurology is full of syndromes named after their discoverers. These diseases are defined by their eponyms. Many of these eponymous disorders are very common and well-recognised. These include Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and Huntington’s disease (HD).

Many other diseases, also named after people who worked on them, are not household names. Indeed many neurologists are unfamiliar with them. This is either because they are rare, or because they easily pass unrecognised.

So what are these rare and mysterious neurological diseases. Below are 45 less well-known eponymous neurological diseases, all linked to their Neurochecklists.

1. Alexander disease
2. Alpers syndrome
3. Anderson-Tawil syndrome
4. Angelman syndrome
5. Anton’s syndrome
6. Balint’s syndrome
7. Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis (BBE)
8. Brown Vialetto van Laere (BVVL) syndrome
9. Charles Bonnet syndrome
10. Curranino syndrome
    

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11. Cockayne syndrome
12. Coffin Lowry syndrome
13. Danon disease
14. de Clerambault’s syndrome
15. Doose syndrome
16. Eales disease
17. Fahr disease
18. Farber disease
19. Gerstmann Straussler Scheinker (GSS) syndrome
20. Gordon Holmes spinocerebellar ataxia syndrome
    

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21. Joubert syndrome
22. Klippel-Feil syndrome
23. Landau-Kleffner syndrome
24. Leigh syndrome
25. Machiafava Bignami disease
26. Menke’s disease
27. Miller Dieker syndrome
28. Morvan’s syndrome
29. Nasu Hakola disease
30. Nonaka distal myopathy
    

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31. Ohtahara syndrome
32. Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS)
33. Perry syndrome
34. Rett syndrome
35. Sandhoff disease
36. Sandifer syndrome
37. Satoyoshi syndrome
38. Susac syndrome
39. Tarui disease
40. Unverricht Lundborg disease
    

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41. Vici syndrome
42. Welander distal myopathy
43. Wolf Hirschhorn syndrome
44. Woodhouse Sakati syndrome
45. Zellweger syndrome

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