Toxins/insults/acquired
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Cerebral palsy
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Head trauma
- Hypoglycemia
- Intrauterine exposure to illicit drugs
- Intrauterine infections
- Mercury
- Neurocutaneous syndromes
- Neurosyphilis
- Perinatal asphyxia
- Stroke
- Wasp venom
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