Table 1 Specific categories together with illustrative diagnoses for each category.

Category	Illustrative specific diagnoses
Extra‐pyramidal	Parkinsonism (PD)
Pyramidal (UMN lesions)	Hereditary spastic paraplegia
	Motor neuron disease with clinical
	UMN signs only
LMN disorder with no	Motor neuropathy
or minor sensory loss	Motor neuron disease with clinical
	LMN signs only
	Spinal muscular atrophy
Peripheral nerve disorder	Guillain‐Barré syndrome
with sensory loss	Chronic inflammatory demyelinating
	polyneuropathy or sensory/motor
	neuropathy
	Other sensory/motor polyneuropathy
Primary muscle or	Muscular dystrophy
neuromuscular	Polymyositis
junction disorder	Myasthenic syndrome
	Acid‐maltase deficiency
	Familial periodic paralysis

LMN, lower motor neuron; UMN, upper motor neuron.