1 He suffers from a brain disorder that can trigger off convulsive fits.

2 Parkinson's disease is a degenerative brain disorder that causes tremors and muscle rigidity among other symptoms.

3 For Francesca, who's almost 3, suffers from a brain disorder which triggers off convulsive fits.

4 Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that can cause, among other things, visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions and distorted thinking.

5 Autism: Brain Disorder or Body-Based Biological Illness?

6 The nine-year-old developed the brain disorder Rasmussen's syndrome at the age of three, which saw the disease eat away at the right side of her brain.

7 It's likely in part a biologically based brain disorder, and there may even be a perceptual abnormality, some kind of fundamental visual processing problem.

8 Autism is a complex and mysterious brain disorder usually first diagnosed in early childhood.

9 One version of this rare brain disorder is better known "Mad Cow" and can be contracted by eating contaminated beef.

10 Once isolated, the mutant gene will be the second gene known to increase the risk for the brain disorder.

11 Voice over Doctors are baffled by the cause of Francesca's brain disorder.

12 I had a hangover that was mutating into some kind of brain disorder.

13 A mutation that in one individual may cause liver disease might cause brain disorder in another.

14 Still, the pathogenic theory of schizophrenia runs counter to years of orthodox thinking that schizophrenia is a congenital, organic brain disorder.

15 Not to be confused with the forgetfulness that affects most everyone in their later years,(www.Sentencedict.com) Alzheimer's is a degenerative brain disorder that manifests differently in each of its sufferers.

16 Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function.

17 On Tuesday, officials at the Berlin Zoo confirmed the preliminary results of the post-mortem, revealing that Knut was suffering from a brain disorder which led to his death.

18 Early research suggests creatine supplements might be able to help slow the progression of Parkinson's, an incurable brain disorder that can slowly but steadily paralyze patients.

19 Schizophrenia is explained on the National Institute of Mental Health Web site as a brain disorder that is severe and disabling.

20 What Mr. Fox's co-workers didn't know was that he battled schizophrenia, a brain disorder that can cause anxiety and paranoia.

21 It said doctors should look for signs of the brain disorder when they examine babies at eighteen months and twenty-four months.

22 Bipolar disorder, also commonly known as manic depression, is a brain disorder that causes shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function.

23 Emerging evidence suggests that drug abuse can be a developmental brain disorder, and that people who become addicted are wired differently from those who do not.

24 "The emerging paradigm views addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disorder, " said a Newsweek cover story on addiction.

25 As millions of individuals and their families can attest, a brain disorder or injury can be frightening, frustrating and ultimately fatal.