Types Of Rare Neurological Disease

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.

Huntington’s disease. It is characterized by chorea (involuntary muscle movements), abnormal behavior and dementia. The most striking clinical sign is the chorea, the Greek word for dance, because of the movement characteristic of this disease. Sometimes patients have delusions, wrong thoughts, disparate and inaccessible to all criticism and obsessive-compulsive behaviors.

The Gerstmann syndrome is a neurological disease caused by a brain injury, characterized by agraphia (impaired ability to express ideas in writing), finger agnosia (inability to recognize the finger), acalculia ( inability to perform simple arithmetic problems) and right-left disorientation.

Cogan’s oculomotor apraxia is an inherited disease that affects the eye, which is present from birth. Apraxia is a disorder of brain function characterized by the inability to perform voluntary learned motor acts, although there is physical capacity and the will to do so, ie the affected individual has the physical ability to move, and wants to do , but can not.

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