neurodegenerative disorder

neurodegenerative disorder

Neurology A chronic progressive neuropathy characterized by selective and generally symmetrical loss of neurons in motor, sensory, or cognitive systems Types by area Cerebral cortex–Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease, Lewy body dementia Basal ganglia–Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease Brainstem & cerebellum–dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy, Freidreich's ataxia, multiple system atrophy, types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 spinocerebellar ataxia Motor–amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial spastic paraparesis, spinal muscular atrophy, spinal & bulbar muscular atrophy. See COPD.