About the department
Neurology is the branch of medicine that studies diseases of the brain, brainstem, spinal cord, peripheral nervous system and muscles, and covers their diagnosis and non-surgical treatment.
Which conditions does neurology treat?
- Headaches (migraine, tension-type headache, cluster headache, chronic headache)
- Epilepsy (minor or major seizures, epileptic seizures requiring surgery)
- Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases (caused by blocked vessels, bleeding, aneurysms and vascular anomalies)
- Forgetfulness (Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, dementia due to vitamin and hormone deficiencies, dementia caused by increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure)
- Muscle diseases (myasthenia gravis, myopathies)
- Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other inflammatory diseases of the brain
- Brain infections (encephalitis)
- Dizziness (vertigo)
- Facial paralysis (facial palsy)
- Spinal cord diseases
- Peripheral nerve diseases (neuropathies, including diabetic neuropathy and neuropathies caused by other diseases)
- Nerve entrapments (carpal, tarsal, cubital and other nerve entrapments) and the numbness they cause
- Sudden, severe shooting pains (trigeminal, glossopharyngeal and occipital neuralgia)
- Movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremor)
- Involuntary movements (twitches, cramps)
- Sleep-related disorders (jerking, sleepwalking, restless legs syndrome, sleep paralysis)
- Neurodegenerative diseases (ALS, motor neurone diseases)
- Neck and back pain and herniated discs
