Chapter 6

G00–G99: Diseases of the Nervous System

Diseases of the Nervous System diagnostic classification updated for 2026.

Chapter Instructions

Excludes2(Not included here. Code separately if applicable.)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)
Internal Codes
  • G12.21

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

  • G12.22

    Progressive bulbar palsy

  • G12.23

    Primary lateral sclerosis

  • G12.24

    Familial motor neuron disease

  • G12.25

    Progressive spinal muscle atrophy

  • G12.29

    Other motor neuron disease

  • G12.8

    Other spinal muscular atrophies and related syndromes

  • G12.9

    Spinal muscular atrophy, unspecified

  • G13.0

    Paraneoplastic neuromyopathy and neuropathy

  • G13.1

    Other systemic atrophy primarily affecting central nervous system in neoplastic disease

  • G13.2

    Systemic atrophy primarily affecting the central nervous system in myxedema

  • G13.8

    Systemic atrophy primarily affecting central nervous system in other diseases classified elsewhere

  • G14

    Postpolio syndrome

  • G20.A1

    Parkinson's disease without dyskinesia, without mention of fluctuations

  • G20.A2

    Parkinson's disease without dyskinesia, with fluctuations

  • G20.B1

    Parkinson's disease with dyskinesia, without mention of fluctuations

  • G20.B2

    Parkinson's disease with dyskinesia, with fluctuations

  • G20.C

    Parkinsonism, unspecified

  • G21.0

    Malignant neuroleptic syndrome

  • G21.11

    Neuroleptic induced parkinsonism

  • G21.19

    Other drug induced secondary parkinsonism

  • G21.2

    Secondary parkinsonism due to other external agents

  • G21.3

    Postencephalitic parkinsonism

  • G21.4

    Vascular parkinsonism

  • G21.8

    Other secondary parkinsonism

  • G21.9

    Secondary parkinsonism, unspecified

  • G23.0

    Hallervorden-Spatz disease

  • G23.1

    Progressive supranuclear ophthalmoplegia [Steele-Richardson-Olszewski]

  • G23.2

    Striatonigral degeneration

  • G23.3

    Hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum

  • G23.8

    Other specified degenerative diseases of basal ganglia

  • G23.9

    Degenerative disease of basal ganglia, unspecified

  • G24.01

    Drug induced subacute dyskinesia

  • G24.02

    Drug induced acute dystonia

  • G24.09

    Other drug induced dystonia

  • G24.1

    Genetic torsion dystonia

  • G24.2

    Idiopathic nonfamilial dystonia

  • G24.3

    Spasmodic torticollis

  • G24.4

    Idiopathic orofacial dystonia

  • G24.5

    Blepharospasm

  • G24.8

    Other dystonia

  • G24.9

    Dystonia, unspecified

  • G25.0

    Essential tremor

  • G25.1

    Drug-induced tremor

  • G25.2

    Other specified forms of tremor

  • G25.3

    Myoclonus

  • G25.4

    Drug-induced chorea

  • G25.5

    Other chorea

  • G25.61

    Drug induced tics

  • G25.69

    Other tics of organic origin

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