Progressive supranuclear palsy

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Progressive supranuclear palsy
Classification and external resources
Main anatomical plans and axes applied to the sections of the brain.
ICD-10	G23.1
ICD-9	333.0
OMIM	601104
DiseasesDB	10723
MedlinePlus	000767
MeSH	D013494

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (or the Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, after the Canadian physicians who described it in 1963) is a degenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain.^[1][2]

Males and females are affected approximately equally and there is no racial, geographical or occupational predilection. Approximately 6 people per 100,000 population have PSP.

It has been described as a tauopathy.^[3]