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Conditions and Diseases – Nervous System and Sense Organs

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This collection focuses on conditions associated to the nervous system and sense organs.

These comprehensive and concise factsheets are physician-reviewed and reflect the most current, evidence-based information. Relevant sources are provided for each fact sheet.

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A
  • Abductor spasmodic dysphonia
  • Acoustic neuroma
  • Acute adrenocortical insufficiency
  • Acute angle-closure glaucoma
  • Acute autoimmune neuropathy
  • Acute central cord syndrome
  • Acute cerebellar ataxia
  • Acute idiopathic polyneuritis
  • Acute inflammatory polyneuropathy
  • Acute mastoiditis
  • Acute otitis
  • AD
  • Adamantiales-Behcet syndrome
  • ADC
  • ADD
  • Adductor laryngeal breathingdystonia (ABLD)
  • Adductor spasmodic dysphonia
  • ADHD
  • Adrenal crisis
  • Adrenoleukodystrophy X-linked
  • Adult macular degeneration
  • Age-related hearing loss
  • AIDS dementia complex
  • AIDS encephalopathy
  • AIDS-related dementia
  • AIDS-related primary central nervous system lymphoma
  • AIDS-related primary CNS lymphoma
  • AL amyloidosis
  • Albinism
  • Alexia
  • Alexic anomia
  • ALS
  • Alzheimer dementia
  • Amblyopia
  • AMD
  • Amnesia
  • Amyloid light chain amyloidosis
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • AN
  • Angle-closure glaucoma
  • Ankyloglossia
  • Anoxic brain damage
  • Anoxic brain injury
  • Anterior uveitis
  • Aphasia
  • Apnea of prematurity
  • ARD
  • Arnold neuralgia
  • Arnold-Chiari malformation
  • Arnold-Chiari syndrome
  • Arteriosclerotic dementia
  • Arteriovenous malformations of the brain
  • Arteriovenous malformations of the central nervous system
  • Arteriovenous malformations of the spinal cord
  • ASD—autism spectrum disorders
  • Aseptic meningitis
  • Asperger disorder
  • Asperger syndrome
  • Astigmatism
  • Astrocytoma
  • Atherosclerotic disease
  • Auditory dyssynchrony
  • Auditory neuropathy
  • Auditory processing disorder
  • Auditory synaptopothy
  • Autism
  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • Autonomic dysreflexia
  • AVM
B
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Barotrauma
  • Batten disease
  • Behcet disease
  • Bell palsy
  • Benign essential tremor
  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
  • Benign positional vertigo, BPV
  • Bladder, neurogenic - child
  • Blepharitis
  • Blocked tear duct
  • Blood in the eye
  • Bloody nose
  • Botulinum toxin - biological weapon
  • Botulism
  • Bowel incontinence—adult
  • BPPV
  • Brachial plexus injury
  • Brachial plexus palsy
  • Brain attack
  • Brain injury, penetrating
  • Brain tumor and brain cancer—child
  • Brain tumors
      Brain tumors
    • Brain tumor and brain cancer—adult
    • Astrocytoma
    • Glioblastoma multiforme
  • Brainstem stroke
  • Burner
C
  • C2 neuralgia
  • CADASIL
  • Cataract
  • Cauda equina syndrome
  • Causalgia
  • Cavus foot
  • CCS
  • Central cervical cord syndrome
  • Central cord injury
  • Central cord syndrome
  • Cerebellar stroke
  • Cerebellitis
  • Cerebellomedullary malformation syndrome
  • Cerebral hypoxia
  • Cerebral hypoxia—newborn
  • Cerebral infarct
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Cerebrovascular accident
  • Cerumen impaction
  • Cervical myelopathy
  • CES
  • Chalazion
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
  • Chiari malformation
  • Cholesteatoma
  • Chorioretinitis
  • Choroiditis
  • Chronic glaucoma
  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
  • CJD
  • Claw Foot
  • Closed head injury
  • Cloudy cornea
  • Cluster headache
  • Color blindness
  • Color vision deficiency
  • Color vision problem
  • Coma, hepatic
  • Compression of spinal nerve roots
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Copper transport disease
  • Corneal abrasion
  • Corneal opacity
  • Corneal ulcer
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  • Crossed eyes
  • CTE
  • Cubital tunnel syndrome
  • CVA
D
  • Dacryocystitis
  • Dacryostenosis
  • Dandy Walker
  • Dandy-Walker malformation
  • Dandy-Walker syndrome
  • Dawson disease
  • Day sight
  • Deafness
  • Dejerine-Sottas disease
  • Delayed gastric emptying
  • Dementia with lewy bodies
  • Detached retina
  • Diabetic neuropathy
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Disorder, seizure - child
  • Dizziness, nonvertigo
  • Dry eye syndrome
  • Dyslexia
  • Dysphonia, episodic laryngeal dyskinesia
E
  • Ear barotrauma
  • Ear blockage
  • Ear impaction
  • Ear infection, middle
  • Ear popping
  • Ear wax
  • Encephalitis
  • Encephalopathy, hepatic
  • Encephalopathy, portal-systemic
  • Epilepsy - child
  • Epilepsy—adult
  • Epistaxis
  • Erb palsy
  • Erb-duchenne paralysis
  • Essential tremor
  • Eustachian tube dysfunction
  • Extra-axial haematoma
F
  • Familial Dandy Walker
  • Familial periodic paralysis syndrome
  • Familial tremor
  • Farsightedness
  • Farsightedness and nearsightedness
  • Fecal incontinence—adult
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Fetal ventriculomegaly
  • Friedreich ataxia
  • Functional abdominal pain—child
G
  • Gastroparesis
  • Gaucher disease
  • GBM
  • Glioblastoma multiforme
  • Glioma
  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
H
  • Hand injury
  • Hand trauma
  • Hearing loss
  • Hemianopia
  • Hemianopsia
  • Hemianopsia (bitemporal hemianopsia)
  • Hemianopsia (homonymous hemianopsia)
  • Hemianopsia (inferior hemianopsia)
  • Hemianopsia (left homonymous hemianopsia)
  • Hemianopsia (right homonymous hemianopsia)
  • Hemianopsia (superior hemianopsia)
  • Hemifacial spasm
  • Hemiopia
  • Hepatic coma
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies
  • Herpes zoster oticus
  • Hiccups
  • HIE
  • HIE—newborn
  • High arched foot
  • HIV encephalopathy
  • HIV-associated cognitive/motor complex
  • HIV-associated dementia complex
  • HIV-associated encephalopathy (HAE)
  • HMSNs
  • Hordeolum
  • Huntington chorea
  • Huntington disease
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Hyperkinetic impulse disorder
  • Hyperkinetic syndrome
  • Hyperopia
  • Hyperopia and myopia
  • Hyperreflexia
  • Hyphema
  • Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
  • Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy—newborn
I
  • Idiopathic autonomic failure
  • Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension
  • Idiopathic polyneuritis
  • Incontinence, neurogenic—child
  • Infected tear duct
  • Inflammation of the optic nerve
  • Injury, central cord
  • Interdigital neuroma
  • Intermetatarsal neuroma
  • Iridocyclitis
  • Iritis
J
  • Japanese encephalitis
K
  • Kearns-Sayre syndrome
  • Keratitis
  • Keratitis sicca
  • Keratoconjunctivitis
  • Keratoma
L
  • Labyrinthitis
  • Lacrimal duct obstruction
  • Lacrimal duct stenosis
  • Laryngeal dystonia
  • Lazy eye
  • Left hemisphere stroke
  • Left-side stroke
  • Leigh syndrome
  • Leukodystrophy
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Lewy body disease
  • Loss of movement
  • Lou Gehrig disease
  • Lumbar Radiculopathy
M
  • Macular degeneration
  • Mastoiditis
  • Medulloblastoma
  • Memory loss
  • Meniere disease
  • Meningioma
  • Migraine - child
  • Migraine headache (adult)
      Migraine headache (adult)
  • Mild cognitive impairment
  • Mini-stroke
  • Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome
  • Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and strokelike episodes
  • Mitochondrial myopathy
  • Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy
  • Morton neuroma
  • Motion sickness
  • Motor neuron disease
  • MS - adult
  • MS - child
  • MSA
  • Mucormycosis
  • Multiple sclerosis - adult
      Multiple sclerosis - adult
  • Multiple sclerosis - child
  • Multiple system atrophy
  • Multi-system atrophy
  • Multi-system degeneration
  • Mutilating hand injuries
  • Myelopathy, cervical
  • Myoclonic epilepsy associated with ragged red fibers
  • Myopia and hyperopia
N
  • Narcolepsy
  • Nasolacrimal duct obstruction
  • Nearsightedness and farsightedness
  • Neonatal conjunctivitis
  • Neonatal HIE
  • Nerve damage of diabetes
  • Nerve pain
  • Neuroendocrine tumors
  • Neurofibromatosis Type 1
  • Neurofibromatosis Type 2
  • Neurogenic bladder - child
  • Neurogenic bowel
  • Neurogenic incontinence—child
  • Neurolemmoma
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa
  • Neuropathy, auditory
  • Newborn conjunctivitis
  • NF2
  • Night blindness
  • Nocturnal amblyopia
  • Nonvertigo dizziness
  • Nose fracture
  • Nosebleed
  • Nyctalopia
  • Nyctanopia
  • Nystagmus
O
  • Occipital neuralgia
  • Open-angle glaucoma
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum
  • Optic neuritis
  • Orbital cellulitis
  • Otitis externa
  • Otitis media
  • Otosclerosis
  • Otospongiosis
P
  • Pain, nerve
  • Pain, neuropathic
  • Paralysis
  • Paralysis agitans
  • Paralysis, upper extremity
  • Paraplegia
  • Parkinson disease
      Parkinson disease
  • Parkinson plus syndrome
  • Pearson syndrome
  • Penetrating brain injury
  • Penetrating wound to the head
  • Perforated eardrum
  • Periodic paralysis syndrome
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Pes cavus
  • Phantom limb syndrome
  • PML
  • Portal-systemic encephalopathy
  • Positional vertigo of barany
  • Postconcussion syndrome
  • Posterior uveitis
  • Post-herpetic neuralgia
  • Post-polio syndrome
  • Presbyacusis
  • Presbyopia
  • Pressure-related ear pain
  • Primitive neuroectodermal tumor
  • Progressive external ophthalmoplegia
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  • Pterygium
  • Pulmonary barotrauma
R
  • Ramsay Hunt syndrome
  • Receptive aphasia
  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
  • Restless leg syndrome
  • Retinal detachment
  • Retinal vasculitis
  • Retinitis
  • Retinitis pigmentosa
  • Retinoblastoma
  • Retinopathy of prematurity
  • Retrolental Fibroplasia
  • Rett disorder
  • Rett syndrome
  • Reye syndrome
  • Right hemisphere stroke
  • Right-side stroke
  • Ringing in the ears
  • RLF
  • ROP
  • Ruptured eardrum
S
  • Schilder’s disease
  • Sciatica
  • Scratched cornea
  • SD
  • SDH
  • Seizure disorder - child
  • Seizure disorder—adult
  • Seizure–child
  • Senile dementia, Binswanger type
  • Shaking palsy
  • Shy-Drager syndrome
  • Single angle-closure glaucoma
  • Sinus barotrauma
  • Sinus headache
  • Sinus infection
  • Sinusitis
  • SMD
  • Spasmodic dysphonia
  • Spastic dysphonia
  • Spasticity
  • Specific reading disability
  • Spinal nerve roots, compression
  • Spinal tumor
  • Sporadic olivopontocerebellar atrophy
  • SSHL
  • SSPE
  • St. Louis encephalitis
  • Stammering
  • Stereotypic movement disorder—child
  • Stinger
  • Strabismus
  • Stroke
  • Stroke, brainstem
  • Stroke, cerebellar
  • Stroke, left hemisphere
  • Stroke, left-side
  • Stroke, right hemisphere
  • Stroke, right-side
  • Stuttering
  • Stye
  • Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
  • Subacute spongiform encephalopathy
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Subdural haemorrhage
  • Subdural hematoma
  • Sudanophilic leukodystrophy
  • Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
  • Swimmer's ear
  • Syndrome, cauda equina
  • Syndrome, central cervical cord
  • Syndrome, central cord
T
  • Tardive dyskinesia
  • TCS
  • Tension headache
  • Tethered cord release
  • Tethered cord syndrome
  • Tethered spinal cord release
  • Tethered spinal cord syndrome
  • Text blindness
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome
  • TIA
  • Tinnitus
  • Tongue-tie
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Tourette syndrome - child
  • Transient ischemic attack
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Tropia
  • TS - child
  • Tympanic membrane perforation
  • Tympanic membrane perforation, eardrum—ruptured or perforated
  • Type II Chiari malformation
U
  • Ulnar nerve entrapment
  • Upper extremity paralysis
  • Uveitis
V
  • Vascular dementia
  • Vascular dementia, Binswanger type
  • Ventriculomegaly
  • Vertebrobasilar insufficiency
  • Vertigo
  • Vestibular schwannoma
  • Viral meningitis
  • Visceral hyperalgesia
  • Visceral hypersensitivity
  • Visual aphasia
  • Vitreous hemorrhage
  • Vitritis
W
  • WEE
  • Western equine encephalitis
  • Word blindness
  • Wound to the head, penetrating
X
  • X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
Z
  • Zygomycosis

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