What neuro-related diseases can a healthy teenage boy die suddenly from other than brain trauma caused by head injury?

skysmom65

Searchable neuro-related research terms and diseases: retinitis pigmentosa; Parkinson Disease; Huntington Disease; optic nerve; retina; substantia nigra http://www.mbi.ufl.edu/people/fac-form.php?id=48 Jan 31 07, 8:20 AM

Baloo55th

Huntington's is extremely unlikely as a cause of death in a teenager. In fact, Huntington's, like AIDS, doesn't kill. It's the complications that result from it that can kill. Usually it takes 10-20 years from the symptoms being spotted for this to happen. In the vast majority of cases, Huntington's doesn't show up until middle age - after child producing age in fact. This is how it has survived. Things that kill off before child producing tend to kill themselves off too. Parkinson's, too, is unusual in young people (but commoner than Huntington's showing), and not in itself fatal. Once again, it's the complications that can kill. Jan 31 07, 10:49 AM