Auditory Disconnection Syndromes are a group of rare neurological disorders in which the brain’s ability to integrate or interpret sound is disrupted. Unlike ...
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Visual agnosia is a higher-level visual-processing disorder in which the eyes work, the primary visual cortex receives images, yet the brain cannot correctly ...
Visual Disconnection Syndromes are neurological conditions arising when communication between the brain’s visual processing areas and other regions (such as ...
Alexia without agraphia, often called “pure alexia,” is a rare reading disorder in which a person loses the ability to read written words, yet retains the ...
Ideomotor disconnection, often termed ideomotor apraxia, is a neurological condition in which a person understands the intention behind a movement or gesture ...
Traumatic Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) is a serious form of brain injury that occurs when rapid acceleration–deceleration forces stretch, twist, or tear the ...
An arcuate fasciculus injury occurs when the white matter tract that connects Broca’s area in the frontal lobe to Wernicke’s area in the temporal lobe is ...
Conduction aphasia is a language disorder characterized by fluent speech and good understanding but a marked inability to repeat words or phrases. It arises ...
Callosal Disconnection Syndrome, often called “Split-Brain Syndrome,” occurs when the corpus callosum—the wide bundle of nerve fibers connecting the left and ...
Disconnection syndrome refers to a group of neurological conditions that arise when communication pathways in the brain become interrupted. Rather than damage ...
Delayed-Onset Diencephalic Syndrome is a rare disorder arising from dysfunction of the diencephalon—a region of the brain that includes the thalamus, ...
Infantile Diencephalic Syndrome (also called Russell’s syndrome) is a rare neurological disorder of early childhood characterized by profound weight loss and ...
Neonatal-Onset Diencephalic Syndrome (NODS) is a rare and serious condition affecting newborn infants, characterized by profound weight loss and failure to ...
Paraneoplastic diencephalic syndrome (PDS) is a rare immune‐mediated disorder in which the body’s immune response to a remote cancer mistakenly attacks ...
Diencephalic Obesity Syndrome—often used interchangeably with hypothalamic obesity—is a rare disorder in which damage to the diencephalon (particularly the ...
Classic Diencephalic Syndrome (CDS) is a rare pediatric disorder characterized by severe failure to thrive despite normal or slightly reduced caloric intake, ...
Diencephalic syndrome is a rare condition seen most often in infants and young children. It is caused by disturbances in the diencephalon, a deep part of the ...
Dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS) is a set of neurological symptoms that occur during or shortly after hemodialysis, most often when dialysis is first ...
DeSanctis–Cacchione syndrome is a very rare genetic condition in which children inherit defective genes that normally repair skin cell DNA after ultraviolet ...
Dennie–Marfan syndrome is a rare neurological complication observed in some infants and young children with congenital syphilis. It is characterized primarily ...
