Glossary for Alpers Syndrome

• Atypical depression: AD is a subtype of dysthymia and Major Depression characterized by mood reactivity - being able to experience improved mood in response to positive events.
• Autosomal Genetic Diseases: Any conditions that are related to any non-sex-determining chromosome
• Autosomal Recessive Genetic Diseases: Any conditions that are related to any non-sex-determining chromosome
• Blindness: The inability to see out of the eyes
• Brain conditions: Medical conditions that affect the brain
• Carrier conditions: A condition where a person is symptom-free despite a genetic or infectious disease
• Cirrhosis of liver: Chronic liver disease wherein normal liver parenchyma is replaced by fibrous tissue.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A very rare degenerative brain disease that can be inherited, transmitted (eg in surgical transplants using infected tissue) or as a result of genetic mutations. The condition is fatal.
• Developmental problems: Physical or mental development difficulty.
• Fatal familial insomnia: A very rare inherited brain disease that severely affects sleep and causes progressive deterioration of mental and movement functions.
• Genetic Disease: Any disease that is handed down to oneself through the chromosomes of ones parents
• Liver failure: Acute liver failure (ALF) is an uncommon condition in which the rapid deterioration of liver function results in coagulopathy and alteration in the mental status of a previously healthy individual.
• Mental retardation: A very rare syndrome characterized mainly by mental retardation, hypogonadism, diabetes and facial and skull abnormalities.
• Muscle weakness: A condition which is characterized by an inability of the muscles to function at their full strenght
• Myoclonus: Sudden involuntary muscle twitching or movement.
• Optic atrophy: Dysfunction of the optic nerve which results in impaired vision. The disorder may be congenital or acquired. The rate and degree of atrophy is greatly variable depending on the cause.
• Recessive Genetic Diseases: A disease that produces an effect in humans only when it is homozygous
• Respiratory symptoms: Symptoms affecting the breathing systems.
• Seizures: A rare syndrome characterized by mental retardation, seizures and high levels of hydroxylysine in the urine.

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