Pure hemianesthesia is a neurological condition in which a person loses all forms of sensation—such as touch, pain, temperature, vibration, and position ...
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Palatal myoclonus, also known as palatal tremor, is a rare movement disorder characterized by involuntary, rhythmic contractions of the soft palate muscles ...
Athetoid hand refers to a movement disorder characterized by slow, involuntary, writhing motions of the fingers, hands, and sometimes the forearms. These ...
Isolated hemichorea is a rare neurological movement disorder characterized by involuntary, irregular, non-rhythmic, and “dance-like” movements affecting only ...
Pure dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by impaired articulation, phonation, resonance, respiration, and/or prosody, without accompanying ...
Sensorimotor stroke is a form of stroke in which weakness or clumsiness (motor loss) and numbness, tingling, or loss of position sense (sensory loss) appear ...
Dysarthria–Clumsy Hand Syndrome (DCHS) is a small-vessel (“lacunar”) stroke syndrome in which a pinpoint blockage deep inside the brain injures the fibres that ...
Ataxic-hemiparesis is a lacunar stroke syndrome in which weakness on one side of the body (hemiparesis) is accompanied by in-coordination of the same limbs ...
A pure sensory stroke (PSS) is a very small (“lacunar”) stroke that damages one of the narrow, deep-lying arteries that feed the relay stations for touch, ...
Pure Motor Hemiparesis (PMH) is a neurological condition in which a person suddenly develops weakness or partial paralysis on one entire side of the ...
A lacunar stroke is a small, deep brain infarct—usually less than 15 mm across—that occurs when one of the brain’s tiny “penetrating” arteries becomes blocked. ...
L1 syndrome, also called the L1CAM-related disorder spectrum, is a group of inherited conditions caused by pathogenic changes in the L1 cell-adhesion-molecule ...
Korsakoff syndrome is a chronic, long-lasting brain disorder that develops when the body has been severely short of vitamin B-1 (thiamine) for an extended ...
Kohlschütter–Tönz Syndrome (OMIM #226750) is an ultra-rare, autosomal-recessive neurodevelopmental disorder first described in a Swiss family in 1974. Fewer ...
Klüver–Bucy syndrome is a rare neuro-behavioral disorder that appears when both medial temporal lobes—especially the amygdala and hippocampus—are damaged by ...
Karak syndrome is an ultra-rare, inherited neurological disease in which toxic amounts of iron build up in deep brain structures—especially the basal ganglia ...
Vernet syndrome, also known as jugular foramen syndrome, is a rare disorder that happens when the group of nerves that travel through a key opening in the ...
Jugular bulb thrombosis is a blood-clotting disorder that blocks the venous “bulb” where the sigmoid sinus drains into the upper internal jugular vein at the ...
Villaret Syndrome is a rare but striking neurological condition in which a single injury sitting deep inside the upper neck—the retro-parotid (parapharyngeal) ...
Collet-Sicard syndrome (CSS) is a rare but dramatic neurological disorder in which all four “lower” cranial nerves—IX (glossopharyngeal), X (vagus), XI ...
