Neurology is a vast specialty that encompasses a staggering array of diseases and syndromes. Most neurological disorders are unsung and prefer anonymity to fame . These masquerades roam under the radar and stalk neurology wards and clinics incognito . We will expose them in a coming blog post. Other nervous system maladies are however prominent , and they brazenly boast of their prevalence , their notoriety , or their distinctive names. These are the diseases which have come to symbolise neurology and to define its practitioners. Without much ado, and in no specific order, here is my list of the top 60 iconic neurological disorders .
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Carpal tunnel syndrome
Cluster headache
Epilepsy
Hemifacial spasm
Alzheimer’s disease
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11648572 Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS)
Cervical dystonia
Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
Behcet’s disease
By Republic2011 – Own work , CC BY 3.0 , https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17715921 Brain tumours
Cerebral palsy (CP)
Essential tremor
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Bell’s palsy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36350600 Brachial neuralgia
Kennedy disease
Narcolepsy
Peroneal neuropathy
Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT)
Leber optic neuropathy (LHON)
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP)
Transient global amnesia (TGA)
Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
http://www.sammlungen.hu-berlin.de/dokumente/11727/ ,Hashimoto encephalopathy
Myasthenia gravis (MG)
Stiff person syndrome (SPS)
Trigeminal neuralgia
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
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Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)
Meningitis
Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
Friedreich’s ataxia (FA)
http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcne/founders/page0035.html ,Tension-type headache (TTH)
Korsakoff syndrome
McArdle’s disease
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Horner’s syndrome
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/B15207 ,Motor neurone disease (MND)
Neurofibromatosis (NF)
Rabies
Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)
Huntington’s disease (HD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Huntington#/media/File:George_Huntington.jpg Migraine
Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
Neurosyphilis
Stroke
Miller-Fisher syndrome (MFS)
By J3D3 – Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Multiple system atrophy (MSA)
Tetanus
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)
Wernicke’s encephalopathy
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9679254 Peripheral neuropathy (PN)
Neurosarcoidosis
Myotonic dystrophy
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO)
Wilson’s disease
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