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Progressive Neurodegenerative Disease. The progressive loss of nerve cells is what gives rise to the neurological and neuropsychological signs and symptoms characteristic of each of these disorders. Sometimes the cause is a medical condition such as alcoholism a tumor or a stroke. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis als. Sometimes the cause is unknown.
In the group of neurodegenerative disorders there are alzheimer s multiple sclerosis dementia parkinson s disease and huntington s disease as the most common ones. The neurodegenerative diseases that jpnd focuses on are. Neurodegenerative diseases occur when nerve cells in the brain or peripheral nervous system lose function over time and ultimately die. Sometimes the cause is a medical condition such as alcoholism a tumor or a stroke. All of these diseases are progressive and cannot be easily tamed. Also known as lou gehrig s disease in canada and the united states as motor neurone disease mnd in australia ireland new zealand south africa and the united kingdom and charcot disease in francophone countries is a neurodegenerative neuromuscular disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles.
Sometimes the cause is a medical condition such as alcoholism a tumor or a stroke.
Neurodegenerative diseases occur when nerve cells in the brain or peripheral nervous system lose function over time and ultimately die. All of these diseases are progressive and cannot be easily tamed. Sometimes the cause is a medical condition such as alcoholism a tumor or a stroke. Many of these diseases are genetic. The progressive loss of nerve cells is what gives rise to the neurological and neuropsychological signs and symptoms characteristic of each of these disorders. Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central nervous system or peripheral nervous system.