The Symptoms of Hereditary Neuropathy

While peripheral neuropathy and various other forms of neuropathy usually come about due to some outside influence - accidents, chemotherapy, HIV, diabetes side-effects - there are neuropathies that are inherited and can manifest even in young children. As early as 1886, Charcot and Marie in France and Tooth in England independently described peripheral neuropathies that were inherited and had heterogeneous natures despite differing forms of inheritance. Within a few years of these discoveries, Dejerine and Sottas were able to describe more-severe infancy-onset forms of neuropathy (1893), while Roussy and Levy went on to describe cases associated with tremors in...