demyelinating disease: multiple sclerosis, catastrophe, and cerebral palsy.

idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating diseases

Vitamin B12 deficiency

Central pontine myelinolysis

Tabes Dorsalis

transverse myelitis

Devic's disease

progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

Optic neuritis

Leukodystrophies

A demyelinating disease is any disease of the nervous system in which the myelin sheath of neurons is damaged.

Demyelinating describes the effect of the disease, rather than its cause; some demyelinating diseases are caused by genetics, some by infectious agents, some by autoimmune reactions, and some by unknown factors.

Besides MS, there are several other demyelinating diseases, such as the leukodystrophies (Adrenoleukodystrophy, Canavan Disease, Krabbe Disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Cockayne Syndrome, and Alexander's Disease)

Autoimmune diseases can cause Secondary vasculitis

People of all ethnicities are vulnerable to autoimmune diseases. No one is immune.