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Myelin and White Matter.- Classification of Myelin Disorders.- Selective Vulnerability.- Myelination and Retarded Myelination.- Lysosomes and Lysosomal Disorders.- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy.- Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency.- Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy: Krabbe Disease.- GM1 Gangliosidosis.- GM2 Gangliosidosis.- Fabry Disease.- Fucosidosis.- Mucoplysaccharidoses.- Free Sialic Acid Storage Disorder.- Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses.- Adult Polyglucosan Body Disease.- Peroxisomes and Peroxisomal Disorders.- Peroxisome Biogenesis Defects.- Peroxisomal D-Bifunctional Protein Deficiency.- Peroxisomal Acyl-CoA Oxidase Deficiency.- X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy.- Refsum Disease.- Mitochondria and Mitochondrial Disorders.- Mitochondrial Encephalopathy with Lactic Acidosis and Stroke-like Episodes.- Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy.- Kearns-Sayre Syndrome.- Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy.- Leigh Syndrome and Mitochondrial Leukoencephalopathies.- Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency.- Multiple Carboxylase Deficiency.- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis.- Cockayne Syndrome.- Trichothiodystrophy with Photosensitivity.- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease and X-linked Spastic Paraplegia Type 2.- 18q? Syndrome.- Phenylketonuria.- Glutaric Aciduria Type 1.- Propionic Acidemia.- Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia.- Maple Syrup Urine Disease.- 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-CoA Lyase Deficiency.- Canavan Disease.- L-2-Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria.- D-2-Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria.- Hyperhomocysteinemias.- Urea Cycle Defects.- Serine Synthesis Defect Caused by 3-Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase Deficiency.- Molybdenum Cofactor Deficiency and Isolated Sulfite Oxidase Deficiency.- Galactosemia.- Sjögren-Larsson Syndrome.- Lowe Syndrome.- Wilson Disease.- Menkes Disease.- Fragile X Premutation.-Hypomelanosis of Ito.- Incontinentia Pigmenti.- Alexander Disease.- Giant Axonal Neuropathy.- Megalencephalic Leukoencephalopathy with Subcortical Cysts.- Congenital Muscular Dystrophies.- Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1.- Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2.- X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease.- Oculodentodigital Dysplasia.- Leukoencephalopathy with Vanishing White Matter.- Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome.- Leukoencephalopathy with Calcifications and Cysts.- Leukoencephalopathy with Brain Stem and Spinal Cord Involvement and Elevated White Matter Lactate.- Hypomyelination with Atrophy of the Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum.- Hereditary Diffuse Leukoencephalopathy with Neuroaxonal Spheroids.- Dentatorubropallidoluysian Atrophy.- Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy.- Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy.- Cerebral Autosomal Recessive Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy.- Polycystic Lipomembranous Osteodysplasia with Sclerosing Leukoencephalopathy (Nasu-Hakola Disease).- Pigmentary Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy.- Adult-Onset Autosomal Dominant Leukoencephalopathies.- Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders.- Multiple Sclerosis.- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis and Acute Hemorrhagic Encephalomyelitis.- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy.- Brucellosis.- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis.- Congenital and Perinatal Cytomegalovirus Infection.- Whipple Disease.- Toxic Encephalopathies.- Iatrogenic Toxic Encephalopathies.- Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis.- Hypernatremia.- Marchiafava-Bignami Syndrome.- Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome.- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.- Post-Hypoxic-Ischemic Damage.- Post-Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy of Neonates.-Neonatal Hypoglycemia.- Delayed Posthypoxic Leukoencephalopathy.- White Matter Lesions of the Elderly.- Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy.- Vasculitis.- Leukoencephalopathy and Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas.- Leukoencephalopathy After Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy.- Gliomatosis Cerebri.- Diffuse Axonal Injury.- Wallerian Degeneration and Myelin Loss Secondary to Neuronal and Axonal Degeneration.- Diffusion-Weighted Imaging.- Magnetization Transfer Imaging.- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Basic Principles and Application in White Matter Disorders.- Pattern Recognition in White Matter Disorders.