Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. To be specific, neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
A neurologist is a physician specializing in neurology and trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves make up the nervous system. Together they control all the workings of the body. When something goes wrong with a part of your nervous system, you can have trouble moving, speaking, swallowing, breathing, or learning. You can also have problems with your memory, senses, or mood.
There are more than 600 neurologic diseases which include:
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Aneurysm in the Brain
- Arteriovenous Malformation
- Bells Palsy
- Carotid Artery Disease
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Concussion
- Dementia - Vascular
- Dementia
- Epilepsy
- Falls
- Huntington's Disease
- Lewy Body Disease
- Low Back Pain - Acute
- Low Back Pain - Chronic
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Mild Cognitive Impairement
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Neck Pain
- Parkinson's Disease
- Polyneuropathy
- Sciatica
- Seizure
- Stroke
- Tourette Syndrome
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tremors
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
