Department of Neurology
What is Neurology?
It is the branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, function an disorders of the nerves and the nervous system including the brain and the spinal cord.
What are the Doctors of Neurology called?
The neurologists are the doctors who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of the illnesses including the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles. On the other hand, a neurosurgeon is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system.
When Is It Time To See A Neurologist?
The signs and symptoms warning you of a possible brain disease or collapse of your nervous system include:
- Persistent or sudden onset of a headache
- A headache that changes or is different
- Loss of feeling or tingling
- Weakness or loss of muscle strength
- Sudden loss of sight or double vision
- Memory loss
- Impaired mental ability
- Lack of coordination
- Muscle rigidity
- Tremors and seizures
- Back pain which radiates to the feet, toes, or other parts of the body
- Muscle wasting and slurred speech
What do the Neurologist treat?
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Agenesis Corpus Callosum
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Aneurysm
- Aphasia
- Arteriovenous Malformation
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Batten Disease
- Behcet’s Disease
- Blepharospasm
- Brain Tumour / Cancer
- Cerebral Lupus
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cervical Dystonia
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
- Chiari Malformation
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
- Coma
- Concussion
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Dementia (Non-Alzheimer Type)
- Down Syndrome
- Dysautonomia
- Dyslexia
- Dyspraxia
- Dystonia
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Essential Tremor
- Friedreich’s Ataxia
- Gaucher Disease
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Huntington’s Disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Intracranial Hypertension
- Leukodystrophy
- Locked-In Syndrome (LiS)
- Meniere’s Disease
- Meningitis
- Meningococcal Disease
- Migraine
- Minimally Conscious State
- Motor Neurone Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Narcolepsy
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- Rett Syndrome
- Shy Drager Syndrome
- Sleep Disorders
- Spasmodic Dysphonia
- StrokeSubarachnoid Haemorrhage
- Sydenham’s Chorea
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- Tourette Syndrome
- Transient Ischaemic Attack
- Transverse Myelitis
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Vegetative State
- Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome