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Which genetic disorder is characterized by a buildup of fatty tissue in the nervous system?
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Tay Sacks disease is a genetic disease in lipid is accumulated in brain .It also called lysosomal storage disease .
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Tay-Sachs is a genetic disorder characterized by a deterioration of the?
chromosome 15 it causes the build up of a chemical called gangliosides because the defect causes the body to lack production of the protein hexosaminidase which breaks down the chemical.
What is the disorder of neurofibromatosis?
Genetic disorder of the nervous system, affects the development and growth of nerve cell tissues, tumors grow on nerves, and othe abnormalities.
What is difference between mental disorder and neurological?
A mental disorder is a mental illness or psychological illness. These are things like schizophrenia and depression. A neurological disorder is a disorder of the body's central nervous system. This includes epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. It should be noted that schizophrenia is often characterized as a neurological disorder, and that psychiatric illnesses are characterized as dysfunctions in thought, behavior, or emotion that lead to dysfunction. Neurological disorders are diseases of the nervous system, which can in-turn, lead to psychiatric symptoms.
How does pku affect the patients physical emotional intellectual and social needs?
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder that is characterized by an inability of the body to utilize the essential amino acid, phenylalanine. Symptoms include irritability, nervous system function problems and decreased body growth.
Anorexia nervous is characterized by self-starvation and excessive loss?
Yes, that is roughly correct. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive exercise done in order to lose weight.
What is a chronic neurological condition characterized by recurrent episodes of seizures of varying severities?
Epilepsy is a disorder affecting the central nervous system. It is characterized by recurrent seizures.
A syndrome characterized by recurrent uncontrollable seizures of drowsiness and sleep?
Narcolepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system that is characterised by drowsiness and sleep attacks at inappropriate times.
What is a Co-dominant alleles disorder?
One example is Huntington's Disease. With a recessive genetic disorder, to develop the disorder, you must inherit the gene from BOTH parents (odds, 1 in 4). With a dominant gene disorder, if you inherit the gene from ONE parent, you will develop that disorder (odds- 1 in 2).
What research has been done on bipolar disorder?
A 2003 study found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder could have similar genetic causes that arise from certain problems with genes associated with myelin development in the central nervous system.
What is a sentence that uses disorder?
You seem to have developed a nervous disorder.
What is chorea gravidarum?
It is a nervous disorder
What is the medical term meaning group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles without affecting the nervous system?
Osteoarthritis, Gout and pseudogout, Lupus and Polymyalgia rheumatica
