13 Facts About Neurodegenerative disease

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Neurodegenerative disease is caused by the progressive loss of structure or function of neurons, in the process known as neurodegeneration.

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Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder.

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Experiments have revealed reduced transport rates of both wild-type and two familial Parkinson's Neurodegenerative disease-associated mutant alpha-synucleins through axons of cultured neurons.

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Huntington's disease is a rare autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the huntingtin gene .

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Huntington's Neurodegenerative disease currently has no effective treatments that would modify the Neurodegenerative disease.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Neurodegenerative disease is a Neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons are selectively targeted for degeneration.

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Batten disease is a rare and fatal recessive neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.

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Batten Neurodegenerative disease is the common name for a group of lysosomal storage disorders known as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses – each caused by a specific gene mutation, of which there are thirteen.

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Batten Neurodegenerative disease is characterized by motor impairment, epilepsy, dementia, vision loss, and shortened lifespan.

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Batten Neurodegenerative disease diagnosis depends on a conflation of many criteria: clinical signs and symptoms, evaluations of the eye, electroencephalograms, and brain magnetic resonance imaging results.

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Creutzfeldt–Jakob Neurodegenerative disease is a prion Neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by rapidly progressive dementia.

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Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Neurodegenerative disease is the infectious form that comes from the meat of a cow that was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, called mad cow Neurodegenerative disease.

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Mitochondrial Neurodegenerative disease leading to neurodegeneration is likely, at least on some level, to involve all of these functions.

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