Gerstmann syndrome is a rare but clearly recognisable brain-based disorder. It happens when a small patch of the left parietal lobe—near the angular ...
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Fryns syndrome (FS) is a very rare, autosomal-recessive condition in which a baby is born with a distinctive combination of problems that begin during the ...
Frey’s syndrome (also called auriculotemporal syndrome or gustatory sweating) is a nerve-related condition in which part of the face—usually the cheek, temple ...
Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, usually shortened to FXTAS, is a progressive brain-and-nerve disorder that appears most often in people over 50 ...
Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and a major single-gene trigger of autism-spectrum traits. It happens when a ...
FOXG1 syndrome is a rare, genetic, life-long neuro-developmental condition caused by harmful changes (mutations, deletions or duplications) in the FOXG1 gene. ...
Foville’s syndrome is a rare brainstem stroke syndrome caused by a lesion in the inferomedial aspect of the pons. First described in 1858 by Achille Louis ...
Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome is a neurological and ophthalmological condition characterized by optic nerve changes in both eyes—one eye shows optic atrophy ...
Progressive Bilateral Atrophy (PBA) is a descriptive term used when tissues—most often muscles, nerves, or even bones—shrink and weaken on both sides of the ...
Bilateral papilledema is the symmetrical swelling of the optic nerve head in both eyes, seen on fundus examination. It results from increased intracranial ...
Classic Unilateral Atrophy with Contralateral Papilledema (CUACP) is a rare eye-brain disorder in which one optic nerve wastes away (atrophy) while the optic ...
Foster Kennedy syndrome is a rare neuro-ophthalmic condition characterized by a combination of optic nerve atrophy in one eye and papilledema (swelling of the ...
Foix–Alajouanine syndrome is a rare neurological disorder characterized by a slowly progressive myelopathy—damage to the spinal cord—caused by chronic venous ...
Flynn–Aird syndrome is a very rare, hereditary neuroectodermal disorder that affects multiple body systems—including the nervous, skin, skeletal, ocular, ...
Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome (FIRES) is a rare, catastrophic epileptic encephalopathy that strikes previously healthy individuals—most often ...
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), often called prion diseases, are a rare class of fatal brain disorders caused by misfolded forms of the prion ...
Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are a group of rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders caused by ...
Familial Alzheimer-like prion disease is an exceptionally rare, inherited prion disorder characterized by the accumulation of abnormal prion protein (PrP) in ...
Primary familial brain calcification—sometimes still called Fahr’s disease—is a rare, inherited neuro-degenerative condition in which calcium crystals slowly ...
Paraneoplastic overlap syndromes are a group of conditions in which a hidden or established cancer triggers symptoms and signs in body systems distant from the ...
