Types Of Rare Neurological Disease
The lack of treatment and delay in obtaining a diagnosis are the major problems faced by some 3 million Spanish patients to whom fate has allotted one of hundreds of diseases classified as ‘rare’. “There is a certain helplessness, not too many instruments to serve patients,” Martinez acknowledges.
The Spanish Federation for Rare Diseases collects on its website a list of rare diseases, although the most comprehensive and updated information there is to it is provided by the Research Institute for Rare Diseases. These are some of the most striking diseases, as defined by the scientific institute. The followers of ‘House’ can not find it so strange.
The primary visual agnosia is a rare neurological disease characterized by total or partial loss of the ability to visually identify and recognize people and objects known, although these can actually see.
The syndrome of Gilles de la Tuorette. It is characterized by multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics.
The most common tics involve gestures, neck wrinkle, raising eyebrows, wink … Less often, shake hands or arms, stretching your fingers, sigh, yawn, burp … There have been reports of suicides by destructive effect of disease on society and the workplace.
