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. 2012 Jul 2;4:14. doi: 10.3410/B4-14

Table 1. Brain disorders associated with an increased prevalence of insulin resistance/diabetes and/or obesity.

Psychiatric disorders
  • Schizophrenia

  • Bipolar disorder

  • Major Depressive Disorder

Neurodegenerative
Diseases
  • Alzheimer's disease

  • Vascular Dementia

  • Parkinson's disease

  • Huntington's disease

Congenital neurodegenerative disorders
  • Prader-Willi

  • Alstrom syndrome

  • Bardet-Biedl syndrome

  • Down's syndrome1

  • Ataxia-telangiectasia (Louis-Bar syndrome)

  • Niemann-Pick disease

  • Werner syndrome

  • Wolfram syndrome

  • Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome

Other congenital
Disorders
  • Glut1 deficiency

  • Familiar hyperinsulinism

  • Kearns-Sayre syndrome

  • Klinefelter syndrome

  • Feigenbaum syndrome

  • Friedreich ataxia

  • MELAS syndrome

  • Myotonic dystrophy 1

  • Narcolepsy

  • Thiamine responsive megaloblastic anemia syndrome

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia 3 (Machado-Joseph disease)

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia 6

  • Turner syndrome