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People with Rett syndrome have a keen desire to communicate...
A child with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 rarely lives beyond three years of age...
People affected by muscular dystrophy have different degrees of independence, mobility and carer needs...
To the casual observer, a person with Friedreich ataxia may seem to be drunk...
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is the most common inherited disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system...
Milder forms of Tourette syndrome can be misdiagnosed, as it often occurs at the same time as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other disorders...
Folic acid taken before conception, and during at least the first four weeks of pregnancy, can prevent around seven out of 10 cases of neural tube defects...
The symptoms of Huntington's disease usually, but not always, first appear when the person is approaching middle age...
Essential tremor causes involuntary shaking or trembling of particular parts of the body, usually the head and hands, but it is not Parkinson's disease...
Motor neurone disease (MND) is also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Lou Gehrig's disease. MND is a rapidly progressing, neurological disease. Motor neurones are nerve cells that control...