History and Terminology
The disease was first noted by German neurologist Karl Theodor Fahr in 1930. A less common name for the condition is Chavany-Brunhes syndrome and Fritsche's syndrome, the former named after Jacques Brunhes, Jean Alfred Émile Chavany, while the later named after R. Fritsche.
Less than 20 families had been reported in the literature up to 1997.
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