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Conditions and Diseases – Nervous System and Sense Organs

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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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 otitis
AD
Adamantiales-Behcet's 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
Albinism
Alexia
Alexic anomia
ALS
Alzheimer's dementia
Amblyopia
AMD
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
AN
Angle-closure glaucoma
Anoxic brain damage
Anoxic brain injury
Anterior uveitis
Aphasia
ARD
Arnold-Chiari malformation
Arnold-Chiari syndrome
Arteriosclerotic dementia
Arteriovenous malformations
Aseptic meningitis
Astigmatism
Astrocytoma
Atherosclerotic disease
Auditory dyssynchrony
Auditory neuropathy
Auditory processing disorder
Auditory synaptopothy
Autonomic dysreflexia

Bacterial meningitis
Barotrauma
Batten disease
Behcet's disease
Bell's palsy
Benign essential tremor
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Benign positional vertigo, BPV
Bladder, neurogenic - child
Blepharitis
Blocked tear duct
Bloody nose
Botulinum toxin - biological weapon
Botulism
Bowel, neurogenic
BPPV
Brachial plexus injury
Brain tumors
- Brain tumor and brain cancer—adult
- Astrocytoma
- Glioblastoma multiforme
Brachial plexus palsy
Brain attack
Brain injury, penetrating
Brain tumor and brain cancer - child
Brainstem stroke
Burner

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 infarct
Cerebral palsy
Cerebrovascular accident
Cerumen impaction
Cervical myelopathy
CES
Chalazion
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Cholesteatoma
Choroiditis
Chorioretinitis
Chronic glaucoma
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
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Crossed eyes
CVA

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
Disorder, seizure - child
Dizziness, nonvertigo
Dry eye syndrome
Dyslexia
Dysphonia, episodic laryngeal dyskinesia

Ear barotrauma
Ear blockage
Ear infection, middle
Ear impaction
Ear popping
Ear wax
Encephalitis
Encephalopathy, hepatic
Encephalopathy, portal-systemic
Epilepsy - child
Epilepsy—adult
Epistaxis
Erb's palsy
Erb-duchenne paralysis
Essential tremor
Eustachian tube dysfunction
Extra-axial haematoma

Familial Dandy Walker
Familial periodic paralysis syndrome
Familial tremor
Farsightedness
Farsightedness and nearsightedness
Fecal incontinence
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Friedreich's ataxia

Gastroparesis
Gaucher disease
GBM
Glaucoma
- Living with glaucoma
Glioblastoma multiforme
Glioma
Guillain-Barre syndrome

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
Hiccups
HIE
High arched foot
HIV encephalopathy
HIV-associated cognitive/motor complex
HIV-associated dementia complex
HIV-associated encephalopathy (HAE)
HMSNs
Huntington's chorea
Huntington's disease
Hydrocephalus
Hyperkinetic impulse disorder
Hyperkinetic syndrome
Hyperopia
Hyperopia and myopia
Hyperreflexia
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

Idiopathic autonomic failure
Idiopathic orthostatic hypertension
Idiopathic polyneuritis
Incontinence, neurogenic - child
Infected tear duct
Inflammation of the optic nerve
Injury, central cord
Interdigital neuroma
Intermetatarsal neuroma
Iridocyclitis
Iritis

Japanese encephalitis

Kearns-Sayre syndrome
Keratitis sicca
Keratoconjunctivitis
Keratoma

Labyrinthitis
Lacrimal duct obstruction
Lacrimal duct stenosis
Laryngeal dystonia
Lazy eye
Left hemisphere stroke
Left-side stroke
Leigh's syndrome
Leukodystrophy
Lewy body dementia
Lewy body disease
Loss of movement
Lou Gehrig's disease

Macular degeneration
Meniere's disease
Meningioma
Migraine headache (adult)
- Living with migraines
Migraine - child
Mild cognitive impairment
Mini-stroke
Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and strokelike episodes
Mitochondrial myopathy
Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy
Morton's neuroma
Motion sickness
Motor neuron disease
MS - adult
MS - child
MSA
Mucormycosis
Multiple sclerosis - adult
- Living with multiple sclerosis
Multi-system atrophy
Multi-system degeneration
Multiple sclerosis - child
Multiple system atrophy
Multiple system atrophy with postural hypotension
Mutilating hand injuries
Myelopathy, cervical
Myoclonic epilepsy associated with ragged red fibers
Myopia and hyperopia

Narcolepsy
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction
Nearsightedness and farsightedness
Neonatal conjunctivitis
Nerve damage of diabetes
Nerve pain
Neurofibromatosis
Neurogenic bladder - child
Neurogenic bowel
Neurogenic incontinence - child
Neurolemmoma
Neuropathic pain
Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa
Neuropathy, auditory
Newborn conjunctivitis
Night blindness
Nocturnal amblyopia
Nonvertigo dizziness
Nose fracture
Nosebleed
Nyctanopia
Nyctalopia
Nystagmus

Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
Open-angle glaucoma
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Optic neuritis
Orbital cellulitis
Otitis externa
Otitis media
Otosclerosis
Otospongiosis

Parkinson's disease
- Living with Parkinson's disease
Pain, nerve
Pain, neuropathic
Paralysis
Paralysis agitans
Paralysis, upper extremity
Paraplegia
Parkinson's plus syndrome
Pars planitis
Pearson's syndrome
Penetrating brain injury
Penetrating wound to the head
Perforated eardrum
Periodic paralysis syndrome
Peripheral neuropathy
Pervasive development disorder
Pes cavus
Phantom limb syndrome
PML
Positional vertigo of barany
Post-herpetic neuralgia
Postconcussion syndrome
Post-polio syndrome
Portal-systemic encephalopathy
Pressure-related ear pain
Progressive external ophthalmoplegia
Pulmonary barotrauma
Presbyacusis
Presbyopia
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Pterygium

Restless leg syndrome
Retinal detachment
Retinitis pigmentosa
Retinoblastoma
Retinopathy of prematurity
Retrolental Fibroplasia
Rett's disorder
Rett syndrome
Reye's syndrome
Right hemisphere stroke
Right-side stroke
Ringing in the ears
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
RLF
ROP
Ruptured eardrum

Schilder’s disease
Sciatica
Scratched cornea
SD
SDH
Seizure disorder - child
Seizure–child
Seizure disorder—adult
Senile dementia, Binswanger's type
Shaking palsy
Shy-Drager syndrome
Single angle-closure glaucoma
Sinus barotrauma
Sinus headache
Sinus infection
Sinusitis
Spasmodic dysphonia
Spastic dysphonia
Specific reading disability
Spinal nerve roots, compression
Sporadic olivopontocerebellar atrophy
SSPE
St. Louis encephalitis
Stammering
Stinger
Strabismus
Striatonigral degeneration
Stroke
Stroke, brainstem
Stroke, cerebellar
Stroke, left hemisphere
Stroke, left-side
Stroke, right hemisphere
Stroke, right-side
Stuttering
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
Subacute spongiform encephalopathy
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Subdural haemorrhage
Subdural hematoma
Sudanophilic leukodystrophy
Swimmer's ear
Syndrome, cauda equina
Syndrome, central cervical cord
Syndrome, central cord

Tardive dyskinesia
Tension headache
Text blindness
Thoracic outlet syndrome
TIA
Tinnitus
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

Upper extremity paralysis
Uveitis

Vascular dementia
Vascular dementia, Binswanger's type
Vertigo
Vestibular schwannoma
Viral meningitis
Visual aphasia

Word blindness
Wound to the head, penetrating

X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy

Zygomycosis