title: Neuropathy (disambiguation)
text: # Neuropathy (disambiguation)
  
  Neuropathy may refer to:
  
  * Peripheral neuropathy, a condition affecting the nerves of the peripheral nervous system
  * Cranial neuropathy, any condition affecting cranial nerves
     * Auditory neuropathy, any condition affecting the auditory nerve
     * Optic neuropathy, any condition affecting the optic nerve (including "Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy")
  * Diabetic neuropathy, peripheral neuropathy due to diabetes mellitus
  * Familial amyloid neuropathies, a rare group of autosomal dominant neuropathies of autonomic (and sometimes also sensory or motor) nerves
  * Giant axonal neuropathy, a rare neurological disorder that causes disorganization of neurofilaments
  * Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP), a peripheral neuropathy that affects the sensory and muscle nerves
  * Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP), a condition that causes a variety of signs and symptoms chiefly affecting the nervous system
  * Neuropathy target esterase, a protein (enzyme) that catalyzes (increases the rates of) chemical reactions
  * Organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy, a neuropathy caused by killing of neurons in the central nervous system, especially in the spinal cord, as a result of acute or chronic organophosphate poisoning
  * Polyneuropathy, a neurological disorder that occurs when many peripheral nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously
  
  ## See also
  
  * Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
  * Neuropathia mucinosa cutanea
  * Neuropathic arthropathy
  * Neuropathic pain
  * Neuropathic ulcer
  * Neuropathology
  * Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, medical journal
  