| Infants and younger children | Older children and adolescents |
| Acute | Acute |
- Brain tumor*
- Neuroblastoma*
- Head trauma*
- Cerebellar abscess*
- Brainstem encephalitis*
- Acute cerebellitis*
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis*
- Acute cerebellar ataxia¶
- Anticonvulsant toxicity¶
- Guillain-Barré syndrome¶
- Lead encephalopathy
- Tick paralysis
| - Brain tumor*
- Head trauma*
- Vertebrobasilar dissection*
- Stroke
- Cerebellar abscess*
- Brainstem encephalitis*
- Acute cerebellitis*
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis*
- Acute labyrinthitis¶
- Alcohol toxicity¶
- Drugs of abuse (other ingestion)¶
- Guillain-Barré syndrome¶
- Acute cerebellar ataxia
- Tick paralysis
- Functional neurologic symptoms disorder (conversion disorder)
|
| Intermittent | Intermittent |
- Benign paroxysmal vertigo¶
- Seizure¶
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Arginosuccinic aciduria
- Citrullinemia
- Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
- Hartnup disease
- Maple syrup urine disease
- Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency
- Pyruvate decarboxylase deficiency
- Isovaleric acidemia
- Biotinidase deficiency
- Leigh disease
| - Basilar migraine¶
- Benign paroxysmal vertigo¶
- Seizure¶
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Pyruvate decarboxylase deficiency
|
| Chronic | Chronic |
- Congenital anomaly of posterior fossa
- Dandy-Walker syndrome
- Chiari malformation
- Encephalocele
- Cerebellar vermis agenesis
- Cerebellar aplasia, dysplasia, or hypoplasia
- Hereditary and degenerative ataxias
- Ataxia-telangiectasia
- Roussy-Levy disease
- Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome
- Spinocerebellar ataxia
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
- Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- Niemann-Pick disease
- Sialidosis
| - Congenital anomaly of posterior fossa
- Hereditary ataxias
- Friedreich ataxia
- Olivopontocerebellar atrophy
- Degenerative CNS disease
- Abetalipoproteinemia
- Vitamin E deficiency
- GM2 gangliosidosis
- Refsum disease
- Niemann-Pick disease
- Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- Sialidosis
- Dyssynergia cerebellaris myoclonica (previously, Ramsay Hunt syndrome type I)
- Spinocerebellar ataxia
- Multiple sclerosis
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