Table 1.
Major neurological diseases and their main etiopathogenic features.
| Disease | Main Etiopathogenic Feature b | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genetic | Autoim-Mune | Inflam-Matory | Degener-Ative | Vascular | Tumoral | PGV a | |
| Multiple Sclerosis | x | x | x | ||||
| Alzheimer’s | x | x | x | x | |||
| Parkinson’s | x | x | x | ||||
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | x | x | x | ||||
| Ependymoma | x | x | |||||
| Medulloblastoma | x | x | x | ||||
| Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | x | x | |||||
| Glioblastoma | x | x | x | ||||
| Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor | x | x | x | ||||
a PGV, possible genetic variants. b The symbol “x” in table cell indicates that the etiopathogenic feature mentioned at the top of the column is present in the corresponding disease mentioned in the left-most column.