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1. Which progressive genetic illness, affecting those between birth and their twenties, results in blindness, seizures, loss of motor function and eventual death?
2. "Believe me; I would not exchange it for all the delights of this world". Which common brain disorder was celebrated in this way by sufferer Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
3. After cancer and heart disease, which affliction is the western world's biggest killer?
4. A form of spongiform encephalopathy, until it was confirmed during the 1980s, which disease was believed to be transmitted via substances called prions?
5. Which extremely rare disease, first identified amongst the South Fore tribe of Indonesia is known as the 'Laughing Disease' due to one of its principal symptoms?
6. The Venezuelan town of Barranquitas has the highest incidence in the world of which degenerative disease?
7. Not an illness as such, which brain condition was first described by the surgeon William John Little in 1860?
8. Which condition, the result of a severe vitamin deficiency, can be caused by many years of alcohol abuse?
9. Over recent decades, the term 'manic depression' has fallen out of favour. By what name is this illness usually referred to today?
10. Since the early 1980s this mental disorder has become one of the most commonly diagnosed in children?
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