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

A demyelinating disease is any disease of the nervous system.

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)

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.

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