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Behavior - unusual or strange
Brachial palsy in newborns
Brachial plexopathy
Central pontine myelinolysis
Cerebral hypoxia
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy - resources
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy
Chronic motor tic disorder
Cranial mononeuropathy III - compression type
Cranial mononeuropathy III - diabetic type
Cranial mononeuropathy VI
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Delirium
Dementia
Dementia due to metabolic causes
Diabetic neuropathy
Distal median nerve dysfunction
Drug-induced tremor
Electroconvulsive therapy
Epilepsy
Epilepsy - resources
Essential tremor
Facial nerve palsy
Facial nerve palsy due to birth trauma
Familial tremor
Febrile seizures
Friedreich's ataxia
Ganglioneuroma
General paresis
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
Hemorrhagic stroke
Horner syndrome
Hyperactivity
Hypothalamic dysfunction
Hypotonia
Irritability
Kuru
Memory loss
Meningitis - cryptococcal
Meningitis - gram-negative
Meningitis - staphylococcal
Meningitis - tuberculous
Meningocele repair
Metabolic neuropathies
Methylmercury poisoning
Migraine
Mononeuritis multiplex
Mononeuropathy
Movement - uncontrollable
Multi-infarct dementia
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple system atrophy
Neuralgia
Neurofibromatosis 2
Neuropathy secondary to drugs
Neurosyphilis
Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
Numbness and tingling
Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
Parkinson’s disease
Partial (focal) seizure
Peripheral neuropathy
Petit mal seizure
Pick’s disease
Progressive supranuclear palsy
Pseudotumor cerebri
Rabies
Secondary parkinsonism
Sensorimotor polyneuropathy
Spasmodic dysphonia
Spasticity
Spinal cord abscess
Stroke related to cocaine use
Stroke secondary to atherosclerosis
Subacute combined degeneration
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Syphilitic aseptic meningitis
Tardive dyskinesia
Tay-Sachs - resources
Transient tic disorder
Trigeminal neuralgia
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
Wilson's disease
The central nervous system is comprised of the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system includes all peripheral nerves.
Review Date: 2/16/2012
Reviewed By: Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, and Department of Anatomy at UCSF, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.
