Neurology
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“Effective treatment with careful diagnosis and detailed examination”
Introduction
The Department of Neurology diagnoses and treats all disorders related to the central nervous system, which comprises the brain and spinal cord, as well as the peripheral nervous system, including peripheral nerves and muscles. This department addresses a wide range of neurological symptoms, making it a central and critical field in medicine.
Common neurological symptoms include disturbances of consciousness, syncope, headaches and facial pain, dizziness, muscle weakness, sensory abnormalities, seizures, tremors and abnormal movements, memory and cognitive impairments, language disorders, sleep disturbances, visual loss and field defects, gait disturbances and ataxia, diplopia, eye movement disorders, and swallowing difficulties.
Neurology covers the entire spectrum of neurological diseases, including headaches and dizziness, cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, meningitis, epilepsy, dementia, movement disorders like Parkinson's disease, sleep disorders, ALS, and various muscle and peripheral nerve diseases.
Medical Fields
Headache and Facial Pain: Tension headaches, migraines, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, trigeminal neuralgia, secondary headaches, Botox treatment
Dizziness: Stroke, transient ischemic attacks, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), Meniere's disease, vestibular neuritis, syncope, orthostatic hypotension, orthostatic dizziness
Syncope and Autonomic Nervous System Disorders: Syncope, orthostatic intolerance (orthostatic dizziness), autonomic nervous system disorders
Cerebrovascular Diseases: Stroke (ischemic, hemorrhagic), cerebral aneurysms, cerebral venous thrombosis, cerebral artery stenosis, Moyamoya disease
Severe Neurological Conditions: Decreased consciousness, brain death, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, head trauma, neurogenic respiratory failure, status epilepticus
Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders: Parkinson's disease, parkinsonism, cerebellar atrophy, chorea, essential tremor, hemifacial spasm, blepharospasm, cervical dystonia, dystonia, medication treatment, Botox treatment, deep brain stimulation
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia, hydrocephalus, vascular dementia
Neuroimmunological Disorders: Demyelinating diseases, multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, MOG antibody disease (MOGAD), encephalitis, optic neuritis, myelitis
Pain Disorders: Neuropathic pain, musculoskeletal pain, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome
Motor Neuron Diseases: ALS, Kennedy's disease, progressive bulbar palsy, spinal muscular atrophy
Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders: Epilepsy, status epilepticus, insomnia, sleep apnea, snoring, restless leg syndrome
Pain Disorders: Neuropathic pain, musculoskeletal pain, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndrome
Infectious Diseases: Meningitis, encephalitis, prion diseases (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
Paraneoplastic Syndromes and Neurological Tumors: Autoimmune encephalitis, vasculitis, brain tumors, cancer-related neurological complications
Metabolic and Toxic Disorders: Alcohol, nutritional deficiencies, toxic substances, chemical exposures, poisoning
Hereditary and Rare Intractable Neurological Disorders
Spinal Cord Disorders: Spinal cord infarction, myelitis, degenerative spinal diseases (discs, stenosis), syringomyelia
