Critical-Illness Motor Axonopathy (CIMA) is the pure motor, axonal form of the broader syndrome called critical-illness polyneuropathy and myopathy (CIP/CIM). ...

Vasculitic Pure Motor Neuropathy (V-PMN) is a rare but disabling nerve disorder caused by inflammation of the very small blood vessels (the vasa nervorum) that ...

Paraneoplastic Motor Neuropathy (PMN) is a rare, immune-mediated nerve disorder triggered by an underlying, often hidden cancer. It causes slowly progressive ...

Thyrotoxic distal neuropathy is a type of peripheral nerve injury caused or worsened by thyrotoxicosis—a state of excess circulating thyroid hormones (T₃ and ...

Diabetic distal motor neuropathy (DDMN) is a form of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in which chronically high blood-sugar levels damage the longest motor nerve ...

Pure Motor CIDP is a rare immune-mediated disorder in which your own immune system attacks the myelin sheath—the protective “insulation” around peripheral ...

Distal Acquired Demyelinating Symmetric Neuropathy (DADS) is an uncommon, slow-moving variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy ...

MMN, sometimes called “multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block,” is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy. In plain English, your body’s defence system ...

Distal motor neuropathy (DMN) is an umbrella term for a family of disorders in which the longest motor nerves in the body—those that control the small muscles ...

Occipital Horn Syndrome (OHS) is a rare, inherited connective-tissue and copper-transport disorder caused by harmful changes (pathogenic variants) in the ATP7A ...

Menkes disease—sometimes called “kinky hair syndrome”—is a rare, inherited disorder in which the body cannot move the mineral copper to the organs that ...

Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome is a rare neuro-mucocutaneous disorder in which repeated bouts of swelling in the face or lips, attacks of one-sided facial ...

Medial Superior Pontine Syndrome is a rare type of brain-stem stroke that happens when the paramedian (mid-line) branches of the upper basilar artery are ...

Medial Mid-Pontine Syndrome is a neurological condition that happens when a small but vital strip of tissue in the middle (medial) part of the pons—the ...

Medial Inferior Pontine Syndrome—sometimes called inferior medial pontine stroke syndrome or Foville syndrome—is a rare type of brain-stem stroke that injures ...

Medial pontine syndrome is a specific kind of brain-stem stroke that damages the inner (medial) part of the pons—an egg-shaped bridge of nerve tissue that sits ...

Medial medullary syndrome is a rare but striking kind of brain-stem stroke. It happens when blood flow through tiny branches of the vertebral or anterior ...

McLeod Syndrome is a very rare, X-linked, multi-system disorder caused by loss-of-function variants in the XK gene. The defect removes the Kx transmembrane ...

MASA syndrome is a rare, inherited neurological condition named for the four hallmark problems doctors first noticed: Mental retardation (now called ...

Marden–Walker syndrome is an extremely rare, inherited connective-tissue disorder first described in 1966 by physicians Marden and Walker. Only a few dozen ...