nerve disease

Nervous system disorder caused by the breakdown of myelin covering the axons of nerves.

• Parkinsons

• ALS

• MS

• Huntingtons

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Symptoms of this disease center on loss of motor neurons controlling skeletal muscles. Cognitive brain function is unaffected.

• Parkinson's

• MS

• Huntington's

• ALS

Nervous system disease which is a dominant hereditary disease leading to significant brain function decline.

• Huntington's

• ALS

• Parkinson's

• MS

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Resting Tremors (normal on intentional movement), rigid, shuffling gait, slow, memory loss

• Parkinson's symptoms

• Huntington's symptoms

• Alzheimer's symptoms

• What causes epilepsy

progressive muscle weakness, unexplained tripping and dropping things, muscle cramps and twitches.

• Parkinson's symptoms

• ALS symptoms

• Epilepsy symptoms

• Alzheimer's symptoms

Most common lethal Genetic Disease (50/50 chance to pass it on to child if you are a carrier)

• What causes alzheimer's

• What causes parkinson's?

• What causes Huntington's?

• What causes epilepsy

Death of motor neurons

• What causes ALS

• Who gets ALS

• Who gets alzheimer's

• Who gets epilepsy

Myelin sheath of neurons is attacked by your immune system (autoimmune disease)

• What causes ALS

• Who gets epilepsy

• . What causes MS

• Who gets ALS

Decreased neurotransmitter dopamine levels in brain.

• What causes parkinson's?

• . What causes epilepsy

• What causes Huntington's?

• What causes alzheimer's

Chorea (rhythmic, uncontrolled movements) usually in hands but can be anywhere, depression, muscle weakness

and rigidity.

• What causes epilepsy

• . Huntington's symptoms

• Parkinson's symptoms

• Alzheimer's symptoms