nervous

• Akinesia


  A disease symptom that causes a person to lose the ability to move their muscles on their own
• Alzheimer's disease


  A progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away (degenerate) and die
• Aphasia


  A disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language
• Ataxia


  A lack of muscle coordination that may affect a person's speech, eye movements, and ability to swallow, walk, and pick up objects, among other voluntary movements
• Bell's palsy


  A condition that causes a temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles in the face
• Cerebral palsy


  A group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or posture, caused by damage that occurs to the immature brain as it develops, most often before birth
• CVA


  Stroke; blood flow to a part of your brain is stopped either by a blockage or the rupture of a blood vessel
• Coma


  A prolonged state of unconsciousness where the person is alive and looks like they are sleeping, but cannot be awakened by any stimulation
• Dementia


  A continuous decline in thinking, behavioral and social skills that disrupts a person's ability to function independently
• Dyslexia


  A learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding)
• Encephalitis


  The majority of cases are caused by either a viral infection or the immune system mistakenly attacking brain tissue
• Epilepsy


  A chronic disorder that causes unprovoked, recurrent seizures
• Glioma


  Group of tumors that arise from the glial cells in the brain, usually happening in the cerebral hemispheres
• Grand mal


  Generalized tonic-clonic seizures, involving muscle contractions, muscle rigidity, and loss of consciousness, resulting from abnormal electrical activity in the brain
• Hemiparesis or Hemiplegia


  Weakness or the inability to move on one side of the body, one-sided weakness in your arms, hands, face, chest, legs or feet

  
• Huntington's chorea


  A fatal genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain, deteriorating a person's physical and mental abilities usually during their prime working years and has no cure
• Lou Gehrig's disease/ALS


  A progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord, usually affecting the motor neurons that provide voluntary movements and muscle control
• Meningitis


  A bacterial or viral infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord that usually causes swelling
• Multiple sclerosis (MS)


  An unpredictable disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body
• Myasthenia gravis


  Characterized by weakness and rapid fatigue of any of the muscles under your voluntary control, caused by a breakdown in the normal communication between nerves and muscles
• Narcolepsy


  A neurological disorder that affects your ability to wake and sleep, causing excessive, uncontrollable daytime sleepiness and sudden sleep episodes
• Neuralgia


  Severe, shooting pain that occurs due to a damaged or irritated nerve, affecting any part of the body
• Neuritis


  Many causes, including various viruses and local irritation of a nerve by adjacent tissues
• Neuroblastoma


  A type of cancer that forms in nerve cells called neuroblasts, which normally turn into working nerve cells
• Neuroma


  A benign growth of nerve tissue frequently found between the third and fourth toes, also known as a "pinched nerve" or nerve tumor
• Paraplegia


  A spinal cord injury that paralyses the lower limbs, resulting from severe damage to the spinal cord and nervous system
• Paresthesia


  Prickling, burning, tingling, numb, itching, or "skin crawling" feeling, caused by pressure on a nerve
• Parkinson's disease


  A brain disorder that leads to shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with walking, balance, and coordination
• Petit mal/absence seizures

  Forms of generalized seizures causing a temporary loss of consciousness, brief (usually <15 seconds) and barely noticeable
• Poliomyelitis


  A highly infectious viral disease that mainly affects young children, transmitted person-to-person or by a common vehicle, and can cause paralysis
• Quadriplegia


  Paralysis caused by illness or injury that results in the partial or total loss of use of all four limbs and torso

  
• Sciatica


  A common type of pain affecting the sciatic nerve
• Shingles


  Reactivation of a viral infection in the nerves to the skin that causes pain, burning, tingling, itch, and blisters, caused by the varicella zoster virus
• Somnambulism


  Sleepwalking; a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep
• Stupor


  A serious mental state where people don't respond to normal conversation, only to physical stimulation like a sternal rub
• Syncope

  Passing out, usually related to insufficient blood flow to the brain, also called fainting