Sagan taught a course on critical thinking at Cornell University until he died in 1996 from pneumonia, a few months after finding that he was in remission of myelodysplastic syndrome.

They are often portrayed as children with Williams syndrome ( which was not recognised as a medical condition but some specialist believe that people were enchanted with their character and appearance that they believed to be magical ), usually with fair hair.

The BBC say a great deal of research was undertaken such as talking to families with children who have Down's syndrome, and liaising with a senior midwife as well as the Down's Syndrome Association.

This syndrome was described by Charlotte Dravet, French psychiatrist and epileptologist ( born July 14, 1936 ).

At Centre Saint Paul, one of her supervisors was Henri Gastaut, who described the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.

Some had been conscious and lucid, talking to rescuers, but died of crush syndrome soon after the weight was removed from their bodies.

However another study, had observed that pusher syndrome is also present in patients with left hemisphere lesions, leading to aphasia, providing a stark contrast to what was previously believed regarding hemispatial neglect, which mostly occurs with a right hemisphere lesion.

In addition, the panel was presented with other data suggesting the effectiveness of hypnosis in other chronic pain conditions, which include irritable bowel syndrome, oral mucositis and swelling of the mucus membrane, temporomandibular disorders pain, and tension headaches.

In 2005 and in 2007, systematic reviews from the Cochrane Collaboration showed no proper evidence that hypnotherapy was useful in the treatment of smoking addiction or in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS )

In 1990, Bonewits was diagnosed with Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome.

Originally called interstitial cystitis, this disorder was renamed to interstitial cystitis / bladder pain syndrome in the 2002-2010 timeframe.

It was rejected primarily due to two cases of serious skin rash, suspected to have been Erythema multiforme or Stevens – Johnson syndrome, among 933 subjects receiving the drug.

Although no definite medical proof exists, he was reputed to have been affected by Marfan syndrome.

The Stendhal syndrome was named after Henri-Marie Beyle ( January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842 ), better known by his penname Stendhal

Although there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi, dating from the early 19th century on, the syndrome was only named in 1979, when it was described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, who observed and described more than 100 similar cases among tourists and visitors in Florence.

Hank Blalock, the starting 3rd baseman who had been enjoying a good season, was placed on the 60-day disabled list on the May 19th due to thoracic outlet syndrome, and Mark Teixeira followed him onto the disabled list on June 9 ( for the first time in his career ) with a strained left quadriceps muscle.

The tour was suspended during Nicks's bout with chronic fatigue syndrome and developing addiction to tranquilizers, though it resumed in 1988.

The current ASD classification is to some extent an artifact of how autism was discovered, and may not reflect the true nature of the spectrum ; methodological problems have beset Asperger syndrome as a valid diagnosis from the outset.

It was an incidental finding in a normal 44-year-old, 6 ft. tall man of average intelligence who was karyotyped because he had a daughter with Down syndrome.

Lens dislocation in Marfan syndrome ; the lens was kidney-shaped and was resting against the ciliary body.

The importance of the TGFβ pathway was confirmed with the discovery of the similar Loeys-Dietz syndrome involving the TGFβR2 gene on chromosome 3, a receptor protein of TGFβ.

Among cases that are detected by routine amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling, one study found that the prevalence of Turner syndrome among tested pregnancies was 5. 58 and 13. 3 times higher respectively than among live neonates in a similar population.

Amok is often described as a culture-bound ( or culture-specific ) syndrome, which is a psychological condition whose manifestation is strongly shaped by cultural factors.

Boerhaave first described Boerhaave syndrome, which involves tearing of the esophagus, usually a consequence of vigorous vomiting.

Cases of neonatal withdrawal syndrome have been described in infants chronically exposed to benzodiazepines in utero.

Dravet described this syndrome while working at the Centre Saint Paul at the University of Marseille.

She described this condition in 1978 Estimates of the prevalence of this rare disorder have ranged from 1: 20, 000 to 1: 40, 000 births, though the incidence may be found to be greater as the syndrome becomes better recognized and new genetic evidence is discovered.

The first imprinted genetic disorders to be described in humans were the reciprocally inherited Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome.

There are a number of uncommon psychiatric syndromes, which are often named after the person who first described them, such as Capgras syndrome, De Clerambault syndrome, Othello syndrome, Ganser syndrome, Cotard delusion, and Ekbom syndrome, and additional disorders such as the Couvade syndrome and Geschwind syndrome.

Edwards described his struggle with the illness chronic fatigue syndrome for 15 years in the documentary I Remember Me ( 2000 ).

The syndrome is named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger who, in 1944, studied and described children in his practice who lacked nonverbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy.

Marfan syndrome is named after Antoine Marfan, the French pediatrician who first described the condition in 1896.

The syndrome is named after Henry Turner, an endocrinologist from Illinois, who described it in 1938.

In Europe, it is often called Ullrich-Turner syndrome or even Bonnevie-Ullrich-Turner syndrome to acknowledge that earlier cases had also been described by European doctors.

Aykroyd described himself ( in a radio interview with Terry Gross ) as having mild Tourette syndrome that was successfully treated with therapy when he was a preteen, as well as mild Asperger syndrome.

Other possible causes and / or signs of association with the syndrome are migraines, use of hallucinogenic drugs, and infectious mononucleosis.

One theory is that patients with Alice in Wonderland syndrome were associated with infectious mononucleosis.

* Guillain – Barré syndrome, an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( AIDP ), an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system, usually triggered by an acute infectious process

Borna disease is an infectious neurological syndrome of warm-blooded animals, caused by Borna disease virus, which causes abnormal behaviour and fatality.

Production of L. vannamei is limited by its susceptibility to various diseases, including white spot syndrome, Taura syndrome, infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis, baculoviral midgut gland necrosis and Vibrio infections.

Dependent on the infectious syndrome, symptoms include fever, fatigue, chest pain, dry cough, swelling of abdomen, headache, blurred vision and confusion.

Some sources define " paratuberculosis " by the lack of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, rather than the presence of any specific infectious agent, leaving ambiguous the appropriateness of the term to describe Buruli ulcer or Lady Windermere syndrome.

* Borna disease, an infectious neurological syndrome

" Although the source and distribution of this disease was not known, the results of studies by Norwegian and Canadian scientists showed conclusively that the same virus was responsible for both infectious salmon anemia and hemorrhagic kidney syndrome.

The disease / virus has many names including chicken anaemia, blue wing disease, anaemia dermatitis syndrome, chicken / avian infectious anaemia, haemorrhagic aplastic anaemia syndrome, infectious chicken anaemia, chicken infectious anaemia virus and chicken anaemia agent.

Cytokine storms can occur in a number of infectious and non-infectious diseases including graft versus host disease ( GVHD ), acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ), sepsis, avian influenza, smallpox, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome ( SIRS ).

In June 1982, a report of a group of cases amongst gay men in Southern California suggested that a sexually transmitted infectious agent might be the etiological agent, and the syndrome was initially termed " GRID ", or gay-related immune deficiency.