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Generalised epilepsy is a form of epilepsy, a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures, which are a result of abnormal activity in both sides of the brain.
| Pathology of the nervous system, primarily CNS (G00-G47, 320-349) |
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Inflammatory diseases
of the CNS | Meningitis (Arachnoiditis) - Encephalitis - Myelitis - Encephalomyelitis (Acute disseminated) - Tropical spastic paraparesis |
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Systemic atrophies
primarily affecting the CNS | Huntington's
Spinocerebellar ataxia (Friedreich's ataxia, Ataxia telangiectasia, Hereditary spastic paraplegia)
Spinal muscular atrophy: Werdnig-Hoffman - Kugelberg-Welander - Fazio Londe - MND (ALS, PMA, PBP, PP, PLS) |
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Extrapyramidal and
movement disorders | Parkinson's disease - Neuroleptic malignant syndrome - Postencephalitic parkinsonism - Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - Progressive supranuclear palsy - Striatonigral degeneration
Dystonia/Dyskinesia (Spasmodic torticollis, Meige's, Blepharospasm)
Essential tremor - Myoclonus - Lafora
Chorea (Choreoathetosis) - Restless legs - Stiff person |
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Other degenerative /
demyelinating diseases | Alzheimer's - Pick's - Alpers' - Dementia with Lewy bodies - Leigh's
demyelinating: Multiple sclerosis - Devic's - Central pontine myelinolysis - Transverse myelitis |
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| Seizure/epilepsy | Focal (Simple partial, Complex partial) - Generalised (Tonic-clonic, Absence, Atonic, Benign familial neonatal)
Lennox-Gastaut - West - Epilepsia partialis continua - Status epilepticus (Complex partial status epilepticus) |
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| Headache | Migraine (Familial hemiplegic) - Cluster - Vascular - Tension |
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| Vascular | Transient ischemic attack (Amaurosis fugax, Transient global amnesia)
Cerebrovascular disease (MCA, ACA, PCA, Foville's, Millard-Gubler, Lateral medullary, Weber's, Lacunar stroke) |
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| Sleep disorders | Insomnia - Hypersomnia - Sleep apnea (Ondine's curse) - Narcolepsy - Cataplexy - Kleine-Levin - Circadian rhythm sleep - Delayed sleep phase - Advanced sleep phase |
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| Other | Intracranial hypertension: Hydrocephalus (Normal pressure) - Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Encephalopathy - Brain herniation - Cerebral edema - Reye's - Syringomyelia - Syringobulbia - Spinal cord compression |
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
