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 ...
Dr. Mahsa Mehrazin, MD - Neurologist and Spinal Nerve Specialist
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 ...
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 ...
Macrocephaly-Capillary Malformation is a rare genetic over-growth condition in which a baby is born with, or quickly develops, an unusually large head ...
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is a rare but very severe childhood-onset epilepsy that keeps affecting people throughout life. Doctors recognise it by a “triad”: (1) ...
Bilateral horizontal gaze palsy is a neurological condition in which a person loses the ability to move both eyes side to side (horizontally) in a coordinated ...
The lateral spinothalamic tract is a crucial highway in your spinal cord that carries pain and temperature signals from your body to your brain. When this ...
Medullary (Caudal) Ipsilateral Hemiplegia, often referred to as Opalski syndrome, is a rare form of brainstem stroke in which the infarct involves the lateral ...
Dr. Hadeel Abaza, MD - Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal Disorders
Midbrain (Caudal) Ipsilateral Hemiplegia is a rare neurological condition characterized by paralysis of one side of the body (hemiplegia) on the same side as a ...
Contralateral hemiplegia is a neurological condition characterized by complete or near-complete paralysis of one side of the body that occurs opposite ...
Pure dysarthria is a motor speech disorder characterized by impaired articulation, phonation, resonance, respiration, and/or prosody, without accompanying ...
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 ...
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 ...
