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A	ADHD AIDS - Neurological Manifestations Acquired Epileptiform Aphasia Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Adrenoleukodystrophy Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Agnosia Aicardi Syndrome Alexander Disease Alpers' Disease Alternating Hemiplegia Alzheimer's Disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Anencephaly Aneurysm Angelman Syndrome Angiomatosis Anoxia Aphasia Apraxia Arachnoid Cysts Arachnoiditis Arnold-Chiari Malformation Arteriovenous Malformation Aspartame Asperger Syndrome Ataxia Telangiectasia Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder Autism Autonomic Dysfunction
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B	Back Pain Barth Syndrome Batten Disease Behcet's Disease Bell's Palsy Benign Essential Blepharospasm Benign Focal Amyotrophy Benign Intracranial Hypertension Bernhardt-Roth Syndrome Binswanger's Disease Blepharospasm Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries Brachial Plexus Injuries Bradbury-Eggleston Syndrome Brain Aneurysm Brain Injury Brain and Spinal Tumors Brown-Sequard Syndrome Bulbospinal Muscular Atrophy
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C	Canavan Disease Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Causalgia Cavernomas Cavernous Angioma Cavernous Malformation Central Cervical Cord Syndrome Central Cord Syndrome Central Pain Syndrome Cephalic Disorders Cerebral Aneurysm Cerebral Arteriosclerosis Cerebral Atrophy Cerebral Beriberi Cerebral Gigantism Cerebral Hypoxia Cerebral Palsy Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder Chiari Malformation Chorea Choreoacanthocytosis Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Chronic Orthostatic Intolerance Chronic Pain Coffin Lowry Syndrome Coma, including Persistent Vegetative State Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Congenital Facial Diplegia Congenital Myasthenia Congenital Myopathy Congenital Vascular Cavernous Malformations Corticobasal Degeneration Cranial Arteritis Craniosynostosis Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Cumulative Trauma Disorders Cushing's Syndrome Cytomegalic Inclusion Body Disease (CIBD) Cytomegalovirus Infection
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D	Dancing Eyes-Dancing Feet Syndrome Dandy-Walker Syndrome Dawson Disease De Morsier's Syndrome Dejerine-Klumpke Palsy Dementia - Multi-Infarct Dementia - Subcortical Dementia With Lewy Bodies Dermatomyositis Developmental Dyspraxia Devic's Syndrome Diabetic Neuropathy Diffuse Sclerosis Dysautonomia Dysgraphia Dyslexia Dysphagia Dyspraxia Dystonias
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E	Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy Empty Sella Syndrome Encephalitis and Meningitis Encephaloceles Encephalotrigeminal Angiomatosis Epilepsy Erb's Palsy
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F	Fabry's Disease Fahr's Syndrome Fainting Familial Dysautonomia Familial Hemangioma Familial Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification Familial Spastic Paralysis Febrile Seizures Fisher Syndrome Floppy Infant Syndrome Friedreich's Ataxia
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G	Gaucher's Disease Gerstmann's Syndrome Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease Giant Cell Arteritis Giant Cell Inclusion Disease Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia Guillain-Barre Syndrome
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H	HTLV-1 Associated Myelopathy Hallervorden-Spatz Disease Head Injury Headache Hemifacial Spasm Hemiplegia Alterans Hereditary Neuropathies Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Heredopathia Atactica Polyneuritiformis Herpes Zoster Oticus Herpes Zoster Hirayama Syndrome Holoprosencephaly Huntington's Disease Hydranencephaly Hydrocephalus Hydromyelia Hypercortisolism Hypersomnia Hypertonia Hypotonia Hypoxia
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I	Immune-Mediated Encephalomyelitis Inclusion Body Myositis Incontinentia Pigmenti Infantile Hypotonia Infantile Phytanic Acid Storage Disease Infantile Refsum Disease Infantile Spasms Inflammatory Myopathy Intestinal Lipodystrophy Intracranial Cysts Intracranial Hypertension Isaac's Syndrome
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J	Joubert Syndrome
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K	Kearns-Sayre Syndrome Kennedy’s Disease Kinsbourne syndrome Kleine-Levin syndrome Klippel Feil Syndrome Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome (KTS) Klüver-Bucy Syndrome Korsakoff's Amnesic Syndrome Krabbe Disease Kugelberg-Welander Disease Kuru
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L	Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome Landau-Kleffner Syndrome Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Nerve Entrapment Lateral Medullary Syndrome Learning Disabilities Leigh's Disease Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome Leukodystrophy Levine-Critchley Syndrome Lewy Body Dementia Lissencephaly Locked-In Syndrome Lou Gehrig's Disease Lupus - Neurological Sequelae Lyme Disease - Neurological Sequelae
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M	Machado-Joseph Disease Macrencephaly Megalencephaly Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome Meningitis Menkes Disease Meralgia Paresthetica Metachromatic Leukodystrophy Microcephaly Miller Fisher Syndrome Mini-Strokes Mitochondrial Myopathies Mobius Syndrome Monomelic Amyotrophy Motor Neuron Diseases Moyamoya Disease Mucopolysaccharidoses Multi-Infarct Dementia Multifocal Motor Neuropathy Multiple Sclerosis Multiple System Atrophy with Postural Hypotension Muscular Dystrophy Myasthenia - Congenital Myasthenia Gravis Myelinoclastic Diffuse Sclerosis Myoclonic Encephalopathy of Infants Myoclonus Myopathy - Congenital Myopathy - Thyrotoxic Myopathy Myotonia Congenita Myotonia
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N	Narcolepsy Neuroacanthocytosis Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation Neurofibromatosis Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Neurological Manifestations of AIDS Neurological Manifestations of Pompe Disease Neurological Sequelae Of Lupus Neurological Sequelae Of Lyme Disease Neuromyelitis Optica Neuromyotonia Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Neuronal Migration Disorders Neuropathy - Hereditary Neurosarcoidosis Neurotoxicity Nevus Cavernosus Niemann-Pick Disease
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O	O'Sullivan-McLeod Syndrome Occipital Neuralgia Occult Spinal Dysraphism Sequence Ohtahara Syndrome Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy Opsoclonus Myoclonus Orthostatic Hypotension Overuse Syndrome
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P	Pain - Chronic Paraneoplastic Syndromes Paresthesia Parkinson's Disease Parmyotonia Congenita Paroxysmal Choreoathetosis Parry Romberg Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease Periodic Paralyses Peripheral Neuropathy Periventricular Leukomalacia Persistent Vegetative State Pervasive Developmental Disorders Phytanic Acid Storage Disease Pick's Disease Pinched Nerve Piriformis Syndrome Pituitary Tumors Polymyositis Pompe Disease Porencephaly Post-Polio Syndrome Postherpetic Neuralgia Postinfectious Encephalomyelitis Postural Hypotension Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Postural Tachycardia Syndrome Primary Lateral Sclerosis Prion Diseases Progressive Hemifacial Atrophy Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Progressive Sclerosing Poliodystrophy Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Pseudotumor Cerebri
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R	Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Type I Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Type II Rasmussen's Encephalitis Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Refsum Disease - Infantile Refsum Disease Repetitive Motion Disorders Repetitive Stress Injuries Restless Legs Syndrome Retrovirus-Associated Myelopathy Rett Syndrome Reye's Syndrome
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S	Saint Vitus Dance Salivary Gland Disease Sandhoff Disease Schilder's Disease Schizencephaly Seizure Disorder Septo-Optic Dysplasia Shaken Baby Syndrome Shingles Shy-Drager Syndrome Sjogren's Syndrome Sleep Apnea Soto's Syndrome Spasticity Spina Bifida Spinal Cord Infarction Spinal Cord Injury Spinal Cord Tumors Spinal Muscular Atrophy Stiff-Person Syndrome Striatonigral Degeneration Stroke Sturge-Weber Syndrome Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy Swallowing Disorders Sydenham Chorea Syncope Syringohydromyelia Syringomyelia Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
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T	Tardive Dyskinesia Tay-Sachs Disease Temporal Arteritis Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome Thomsen Disease Thoracic Outlet Syndrome Thyrotoxic Myopathy Tic Douloureux Todd's Paralysis Tourette Syndrome Transient Ischemic Attack Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Transverse Myelitis Traumatic Brain Injury Tremor Trigeminal Neuralgia Tropical Spastic Paraparesis Tuberous Sclerosis
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V	Vascular Erectile Tumor Vasculitis including Temporal Arteritis Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL)
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W	Wallenberg's Syndrome Werdnig-Hoffman Disease Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome West Syndrome Whiplash Whipple's Disease Williams Syndrome Wilson's Disease
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X	X-Linked Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
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Z	Zellweger Syndrome