Neurodegenerative Disorders:

Neurodegenerative disorders are chronic conditions that damage and destroy parts of the nervous system over time, especially the brain. Permanent and incurable, these conditions can be treated by slowing the progress of the symptoms. Examples include dementia (Alzheimer’s or frontotemporal), diseases involving nerve signals (multiple sclerosis), damage to specific brain neurons involved in muscle movement (Parkinson’s), and diseases when motor neurons die (ALS or “Lou Gehrig’s disease”).