Encephalopathy

Encephalopathy means problem of the brain. Most of the time, it is used by medical doctors, to speak about changed brains and thus changed thinking or changed behavior.

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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Diseases of the nervous system, primarily CNS

Brain	Encephalitis Viral encephalitis Herpesviral encephalitis Limbic encephalitis Encephalitis lethargica Cavernous sinus thrombosis Brain abscess Amoebic
Brain and spinal cord	Encephalomyelitis Acute disseminated Meningitis Meningoencephalitis

Brain/
encephalopathy

Extrapyramidal and movement disorders	Basal ganglia disease Parkinsonism PD Postencephalitic NMS NBIA PKAN Tauopathy PSP Striatonigral degeneration Hemiballismus HD OA Dyskinesia Dystonia Status dystonicus Spasmodic torticollis Meige's Blepharospasm Athetosis Chorea Choreoathetosis Myoclonus Myoclonic epilepsy Akathisia Tremor Essential tremor Intention tremor Restless legs Stiff-person
Dementia	Tauopathy Alzheimer's Early-onset Primary progressive aphasia Frontotemporal dementia/Frontotemporal lobar degeneration Pick's Lewy bodies dementia Posterior cortical atrophy Vascular dementia
Mitochondrial disease	Leigh syndrome

Demyelinating

Autoimmune
Inflammatory
Multiple sclerosis
For more detailed coverage, see Template:Demyelinating diseases of CNS

Episodic/
paroxysmal

Seizures and epilepsy	Focal Generalised Status epilepticus For more detailed coverage, see Template:Epilepsy
Headache	Migraine Cluster headache Tension For more detailed coverage, see Template:Headache
Cerebrovascular	TIA Stroke For more detailed coverage, see Template:Cerebrovascular diseases
Other	Sleep disorders For more detailed coverage, see Template:Sleep

Intracranial hypertension
- Hydrocephalus
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Choroid plexus papilloma
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Cerebral edema
Intracranial hypotension

Other

Brain herniation
Reye syndrome
Hepatic encephalopathy
Toxic encephalopathy
Hashimoto's encephalopathy
Static Encephalopathy

Both/either

SA

Friedreich's ataxia
Ataxia–telangiectasia

UMN only:
- Primary lateral sclerosis
- Pseudobulbar palsy
- Hereditary spastic paraplegia

LMN only:
- Distal hereditary motor neuronopathies
- Spinal muscular atrophies
  - SMA
  - SMAX1
  - SMAX2
  - DSMA1
  - Congenital DSMA
  - Spinal muscular atrophy with lower extremity predominance (SMALED)
    - SMALED1
    - SMALED2A
    - SMALED2B
  - SMA-PCH
  - SMA-PME
- Progressive muscular atrophy
- Progressive bulbar palsy
  - Fazio–Londe
  - Infantile progressive bulbar palsy

both:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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