Neurological Disorders List

Over 1 billion people worldwide have some sort of  neurological disorder according to the World Health Organization.

Of the more than 600 different neurological disorders that have identified, only a few such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, diabetic neuropathy, epilepsy, headaches, Huntington’s, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s are in the public eye. Most of them affect so few people that they could be labeled “orphan illnesses.”

Raising money to properly treat the patients and ease the burden on caregivers is an almost impossible task. Healthcare companies often refuse coverage because the condition may be not be covered under the plan due to its rarity.

Compounding the problem in treating them is that many are incurable by nature, or difficult to diagnose correctly. Often a definitive answer to the exact condition requires extensive, and/or expensive procedures that few can afford, especially in poor regions of the world.

Over 300 of the numerous neurological disorders are listed below in alphabetical order. Naming all the subsets of these conditions would make the list even longer and contain some disorders which extremely rare.

Neurological Disorders

  1. Acquired Epileptiform Aphasia (Landau-Kleffner Syndrome)
  2. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
  3. Adrenoleukodystrophy
  4. Adrenomyeloneuropathy
  5. Agenesis of the corpus callosum
  6. Agnosia
  7. Aicardi syndrome
  8. Alexander disease
  9. Alpers’ disease
  10. Alternating hemiplegia
  11. Alzheimer’s disease
  12. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (see Motor Neurone Disease)
  13. Anencephaly
  14. Angelman syndrome
  15. Aphasia
  16. Apraxia
  17. Arachnoid cysts
  18. Arachnoiditis
  19. Asperger’s syndrome
  20. Ataxia Telangiectasia
  21. Autism
  22. Auditory processing disorder
  23. Autonomic Neuropathy
  24. Batten disease
  25. Behcet’s disease
  26. Bell’s palsy
  27. Benign Intracranial Hypertension
  28. Bilateral frontoparietal polymicrogyria
  29. Binswanger’s disease
  30. Blepharospasm
  31. Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome (Incontinentia Pigmenti)
  32. Brachial plexus injury
  33. Brown-Sequard syndrome
  34. Canavan disease
  35. Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)
  36. Causalgia
  37. Central pain syndrome
  38. Central pontine myelinolysis
  39. Centronuclear myopathy
  40. Cephalic disorders
  41. Cerebral aneurysm
  42. Cerebral arteriosclerosis
  43. Cerebral atrophy
  44. Cerebral palsy
  45. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
  46. Chiari malformation
  47. Childhood cerebral demyelinating adrenoleukodystrophy
  48. Chorea
  49. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
  50. Coffin Lowry syndrome
  51. Coma, including Persistent Vegetative State
  52. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
  53. Corticobasal degeneration
  54. Craniosynostosis
  55. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  56. Cumulative trauma disorders
  57. Cushing’s syndrome
  58. Dandy-Walker syndrome
  59. Dawson disease
  60. De Morsier’s syndrome
  61. Dejerine-Klumpke palsy
  62. Dejerine-Sottas disease
  63. Delayed sleep phase syndrome
  64. Dementia
  65. Dermatomyositis
  66. Developmental Dyspraxia
  67. Diabetic neuropathy
  68. Diffuse sclerosis
  69. Dysautonomia
  70. Dyscalculia
  71. Dysgraphia
  72. Dyslexia
  73. Dystonia
  74. Early infantile epileptic encephalopathy
  75. Empty sella syndrome
  76. Encephalitis
  77. Encephalocele
  78. Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis
  79. Encopresis
  80. Epilepsy
  81. Erb’s palsy
  82. Erythromelalgia
  83. Essential tremor
  84. Fabry’s disease
  85. Fahr’s syndrome
  86. Fainting
  87. Familial spastic paralysis
  88. Febrile seizures
  89. Fisher syndrome
  90. Friedreich’s ataxia
  91. FART Syndrome
  92. Gaucher’s disease
  93. Gerstmann’s syndrome
  94. Giant cell arteritis
  95. Giant cell inclusion disease
  96. Globoid cell Leukodystrophy
  97. Gray matter heterotopia
  98. Guillain-Barre syndrome
  99. HTLV-1 associated myelopathy
  100. Hallervorden-Spatz disease
  101. Head injury
  102. Headache
  103. Hemifacial Spasm
  104. Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
  105. Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
  106. Herpes zoster oticus
  107. Herpes zoster
  108. Hirayama syndrome
  109. Holoprosencephaly
  110. Huntington’s disease
  111. Hydranencephaly
  112. Hydrocephalus
  113. Hypercortisolism
  114. Hypoxia
  115. Immune-Mediated encephalomyelitis
  116. Inclusion body myositis
  117. Incontinentia pigmenti
  118. Infantile phytanic acid storage disease
  119. Infantile Refsum disease
  120. Infantile spasms
  121. Inflammatory myopathy
  122. Intracranial cyst
  123. Intracranial hypertension
  124. Joubert syndrome
  125. Kearns-Sayre syndrome
  126. Kennedy disease
  127. Kinsbourne syndrome
  128. Klippel Feil syndrome
  129. Krabbe disease
  130. Kugelberg-Welander disease
  131. Kuru
  132. Lafora disease
  133. Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
  134. Landau-Kleffner syndrome
  135. Lateral medullary (Wallenberg) syndrome
  136. Learning disabilities
  137. Leigh’s disease
  138. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
  139. Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
  140. Leukodystrophy
  141. Lewy body dementia
  142. Lissencephaly
  143. Locked-In syndrome
  144. Lou Gehrig’s disease (See Motor Neurone Disease)
  145. Lumbar disc disease
  146. Lyme disease – Neurological Sequelae
  147. Machado-Joseph disease (Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3)
  148. Macrencephaly
  149. Megalencephaly
  150. Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
  151. Menieres disease
  152. Meningitis
  153. Menkes disease
  154. Metachromatic leukodystrophy
  155. Microcephaly
  156. Migraine
  157. Miller Fisher syndrome
  158. Mini-Strokes
  159. Mitochondrial Myopathies
  160. Moebius Syndrome
  161. Monomelic amyotrophy
  162. Motor Neurone Disease
  163. Motor skills disorder
  164. Moyamoya disease
  165. Mucopolysaccharidoses
  166. Multi-Infarct Dementia
  167. Multifocal motor neuropathy
  168. Multiple sclerosis
  169. Multiple system atrophy
  170. Muscular dystrophy
  171. Myalgic encephalomyelitis
  172. Myasthenia gravis
  173. Myelinoclastic diffuse sclerosis
  174. Myoclonic Encephalopathy of infants
  175. Myoclonus
  176. Myopathy
  177. Myotubular myopathy
  178. Myotonia congenita
  179. Narcolepsy
  180. Neurofibromatosis
  181. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
  182. Neurological manifestations of AIDS
  183. Neurological sequelae of lupus
  184. Neuromyelitis Optica
  185. Neuromyotonia
  186. Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
  187. Neuronal migration disorders
  188. Niemann-Pick disease
  189. Non 24-hour sleep-wake syndrome
  190. Nonverbal learning disorder
  191. O’Sullivan-McLeod syndrome
  192. Occipital Neuralgia
  193. Occult Spinal Dysraphism Sequence
  194. Ohtahara syndrome
  195. Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
  196. Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome
  197. Optic neuritis
  198. Orthostatic Hypotension
  199. Overuse syndrome
  200. Palinopsia
  201. Paresthesia
  202. Parkinson’s disease
  203. Paramyotonia Congenita
  204. Paraneoplastic diseases
  205. Paroxysmal attacks
  206. Parry-Romberg syndrome (also known as Rombergs Syndrome)
  207. Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
  208. Periodic Paralyses
  209. Peripheral neuropathy
  210. Persistent Vegetative State
  211. Pervasive developmental disorders
  212. Photic sneeze reflex
  213. Phytanic Acid Storage disease
  214. Pick’s disease
  215. Pinched Nerve
  216. Pituitary Tumors
  217. PMG
  218. Polio
  219. Polymicrogyria
  220. Polymyositis
  221. Porencephaly
  222. Post-Polio syndrome
  223. Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN)
  224. Postinfectious Encephalomyelitis
  225. Postural Hypotension
  226. Prader-Willi syndrome
  227. Primary Lateral Sclerosis
  228. Prion diseases
  229. Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy also known as Rombergs_Syndrome
  230. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
  231. Progressive Sclerosing Poliodystrophy
  232. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  233. Pseudotumor cerebri
  234. Ptosis (Droopy Upper Eyelids)
  235. Ramsay-Hunt syndrome (Type I and Type II)
  236. Rasmussen’s encephalitis
  237. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome
  238. Refsum disease
  239. Repetitive motion disorders
  240. Repetitive stress injury
  241. Restless legs syndrome
  242. Retrovirus-associated myelopathy
  243. Rett syndrome
  244. Reye’s syndrome
  245. Rombergs_Syndrome
  246. Rabies
  247. Saint Vitus dance
  248. Sandhoff disease
  249. Schytsophrenia
  250. Schilder’s disease
  251. Schizencephaly
  252. Sensory Integration Dysfunction
  253. Septo-optic dysplasia
  254. Shaken baby syndrome
  255. Shingles
  256. Shy-Drager syndrome
  257. Sjogren’s syndrome
  258. Sleep apnea
  259. Sleeping sickness
  260. Snatiation
  261. Sotos syndrome
  262. Spasticity
  263. Spina bifida
  264. Spinal cord injury
  265. Spinal cord tumors
  266. Spinal muscular atrophy
  267. Spinal stenosis
  268. Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, see Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  269. Spinocerebellar ataxia
  270. Stiff-person syndrome
  271. Stroke
  272. Sturge-Weber syndrome
  273. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
  274. Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy
  275. Superficial siderosis
  276. Sydenham’s chorea
  277. Syncope
  278. Synesthesia
  279. Syringomyelia
  280. Tardive dyskinesia
  281. Tay-Sachs disease
  282. Temporal arteritis
  283. Tethered spinal cord syndrome
  284. Thomsen disease
  285. Thoracic outlet syndrome
  286. Tic Douloureux
  287. Todd’s paralysis
  288. Tourette syndrome
  289. Transient ischemic attack
  290. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
  291. Transverse myelitis
  292. Traumatic brain injury
  293. Tremor
  294. Trigeminal neuralgia
  295. Tropical spastic paraparesis
  296. Trypanosomiasis
  297. Tuberous sclerosis
  298. Vasculitis including temporal arteritis
  299. Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL)
  300. Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis (VE)
  301. Wallenberg’s syndrome
  302. Werdnig-Hoffman disease
  303. West syndrome
  304. Whiplash
  305. Williams syndrome
  306. Wilson’s disease
  307. X-Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
  308. Zellweger syndrome