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Originally, the term was created to distinguish physical (termed "organic") causes of mental impairment from psychiatric (termed "functional") disorders, but during the era when this distinction was drawn, not enough was known about brain science (including neuroscience, cognitive science, neuropsychology, and mind-brain correlation) for this ...
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e.g., Aicardi syndrome). There is disagreement over the definitions and criteria used to delineate various disorders and whether some of these conditions should be classified as ...
Hereditary breast–ovarian cancer syndrome; Hereditary hyperbilirubinemia; Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer syndrome; Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy; Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer; Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome; Hero syndrome; Heyde's syndrome; High-rise syndrome; HIV/AIDS; Holiday heart syndrome; Holt–Oram syndrome ...
Mitochondrial encephalopathy: Metabolic disorder caused by dysfunction of mitochondrial DNA. Can affect many body systems, particularly the brain and nervous system. Acute necrotizing encephalopathy, rare disease that occurs following a viral infection. Glycine encephalopathy: A genetic metabolic disorder involving excess production of glycine.
Cases involving these symptoms are classified as functional disorders ("functional" in this context is usually contrasted with the old term "organic disease"). For example, in functional neurologic disorder (FND), those affected present with various neurological symptoms such as functional seizures , numbness , paresthesia , and weakness ...
"We see odd neurological syndromes from time to time... sometimes we figure them out, sometimes we don’t,” said one researcher.
310 Specific nonpsychotic mental disorders following organic brain damage. 310.0 Frontal lobe syndrome (Include: Lobotomy syndrome, Postleucotomy syndrome (state)) 310.1 Cognitive or personality change of other type (Include: mild memory disturbance, organic psychosyndrome of nonpsychotic severity)
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