Neurodegenerative disorder
From SNPedia
There are many different types of neurodegenerative disorders. Wikipedia Some are present at birth, and others develop late in life. The outlook for an individual with one of these disorders depends on the particular condition and its severity.
Childhood neurodegenerative disorders
- ARSACS (autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay, also called SACS)
- Batten disease
- Canavan disease
- mucolipidosis type IV
- Niemann-Pick disease
- Salla disease
Adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders
- Alzheimer's disease
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease
- Binswanger's disease
- frontotemporal dementia
- Huntington disease (HD)
- Lewy body dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- Pick's disease
- progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
- spinocerebellar ataxia (numerous types, some with childhood onset)
