Neurodegenerative diseases include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease,...
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Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of...
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (redirect from Boxer disease)
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated trauma to the head. The encephalopathy symptoms can include behavioral...
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Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that is mostly inherited. The earliest symptoms...
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extremely rare, always fatal (due to it being caused by prions) neurodegenerative disease that affects patients from 20 to 60 years in age. It is exclusively...
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some lymphoproliferative cancers. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease in which the immune system attacks myelin, a protective covering...
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Dementia with Lewy bodies (redirect from Diffuse Lewy body disease)
after Alzheimer's disease and vascular disease." Hershey (2019) says, "DLB is the third most common of all the neurodegenerative diseases behind both Alzheimer's...
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (redirect from Mad cow disease)
encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is an incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include abnormal behavior...
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disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease...
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia...
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Prion (category Infectious diseases)
Prions cause prion diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) that are fatal transmissible neurodegenerative diseases in humans and...
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Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor...
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It is chronic inflammation that is typically associated with neurodegenerative diseases. Common causes of chronic neuroinflammation include: Toxic metabolites...
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in 3 distinct settings: mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, adult neurodegenerative disease and acute brain injury.: 1503 In 1825, Bouchet and Cazauvieilh...
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ALS (redirect from Lou Gehrigs disease)
also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the...
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neurodegenerative diseases, cells of the central nervous system stop working or die via neurodegeneration. An example of this is Alzheimer's disease....
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Mitochondrial DNA (section Neurodegenerative diseases)
mtDNA damage is a feature of several neurodegenerative diseases. The brains of individuals with Alzheimer's disease have elevated levels of oxidative DNA...
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may contribute to the development of psychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases that present in early adulthood and beyond. The extended period...
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Dementia (category Aging-associated diseases)
Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's...
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Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of complex disorders linked by the degeneration of neurons in either the peripheral nervous system...
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Roseola (redirect from Sixth disease)
morbilliform rash. HHV-6 has been tentatively linked with neurodegenerative diseases. Fifth disease Stone, RC; Micali, GA; Schwartz, RA (April 2014). "Roseola...
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Neurodegenerative diseases can disrupt the normal human homeostasis and result in abnormal estrogen levels. For example, neurodegenerative diseases can...
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Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the...
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Corticobasal degeneration (category Neurodegenerative disorders)
Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) is a rare neurodegenerative disease involving the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia. CBD symptoms typically begin...
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other forms of dementia. It presents often in individuals with a neurodegenerative disease, particularly at an older age; it has also been reported as occurring...
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misfolded proteins have modified or toxic functionality. Several neurodegenerative and other diseases are believed to result from the accumulation of amyloid fibrils...
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Protein toxicity (section Neurodegenerative diseases)
blood stream rapidly. Protein toxicity has a significant role in neurodegenerative diseases. Whether it is due to high protein intake, pathological disorders...
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to as Batten disease, NCLs are responsible for most paediatric neurodegenerative diseases. The specific type of NCL is characterized by the age of symptomatic...
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TREM2 (category Alzheimer's disease)
(PLOSL or Nasu–Hakola disease). Variants of TREM2 have been associated with neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. TREM2 is involved...
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demonstrated in animal models of autoimmune disease including collagen-induced arthritis, a murine disease that resembles human rheumatoid arthritis. Prophylactic...
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