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    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 (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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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