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This article is about physical disorders of the brain. See Mental disorders for clinical psychological and psychiatric difficulties. For a list of brain disorders see: category:Brain disorders

Brain disorders and brain damage can occur due to a number of factors:

  • Genetic
  • Physical illness
  • Physical injury
  • Substance abuse

Disorders and minimal brain disorders include :

See also[]


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Nervous system disorders, primarily CNS (G04–G47, 323–349)
Inflammation

Encephalitis (Viral encephalitis, Herpesviral encephalitis) · Cavernous sinus thrombosis · Brain abscess (Amoebic)

Myelitis: Poliomyelitis · Demyelinating disease (Transverse myelitis) · Tropical spastic paraparesis · Epidural abscess

Both/either

Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated)
Meningoencephalitis


Brain/
encephalopathy


Basal ganglia disease: Parkinsonism (PD, Postencephalitic, NMS) · PKAN · Tauopathy (PSP) · Striatonigral degeneration · Hemiballismus · HD · OA
Dyskinesia: Dystonia (Status dystonicus, Spasmodic torticollis, Meige's, Blepharospasm) · Athetosis, Chorea (Choreoathetosis) · Myoclonus (Myoclonic epilepsy) · Akathesia


Leigh's disease


autoimmune (Multiple sclerosis, Neuromyelitis optica, Schilder's disease) · hereditary (Adrenoleukodystrophy, Alexander, Canavan, Krabbe, ML, PMD, VWM, MFC, CAMFAK syndrome) · Central pontine myelinolysis · Marchiafava-Bignami disease · Alpers' disease

Episodic/
paroxysmal

Focal · Generalised · Status epilepticus · Myoclonic epilepsy

Migraine (Familial hemiplegic) · Cluster · Tension

TIA (Amaurosis fugax, Transient global amnesia Acute aphasia)
Stroke (MCA, ACA, PCA, Foville's, Millard-Gubler, Lateral medullary, Weber's, Lacunar stroke)

Insomnia · Hypersomnia · Sleep apnea (Obstructive, Ondine's curse) · Narcolepsy · Cataplexy · Kleine-Levin · Circadian rhythm sleep disorder (Advanced sleep phase disorder, Delayed sleep phase disorder, Non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder, Jet lag)


Intracranial hypertension (Hydrocephalus/NPH, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension) · Cerebral edema · Intracranial hypotension

Other

Brain herniation · Reye's · Hepatic encephalopathy · Toxic encephalopathy


Spinal cord/
myelopathy

Syringomyelia · Syringobulbia · Morvan's syndrome · Vascular myelopathy (Foix-Alajouanine syndrome) · Spinal cord compression

Both/either


Friedreich's ataxia · Ataxia telangiectasia

UMN only: PLS · PP · HSP
LMN only: Distal hereditary motor neuropathies · Spinal muscular atrophies (SMA, SMAX1, SMAX2, DSMA1, SMA-PCH, SMA-LED) · PMA · PBP (Fazio-Londe, Infantile progressive bulbar palsy)
both: ALS

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