Neurology is a field that diagnoses, treats, and studies all diseases that occur in the central nervous system, including the brain and spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, including cranial nerves, peripheral nerves, and muscles.

The Department of Neurology is a specialty that diagnoses and treats degenerative brain diseases such as stroke, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease, sleep disorders and epilepsy, headaches and dizziness, numbness in hands and feet, and peripheral nerve and muscle diseases.

The Department of Neurology places more importance on neurological examination than other departments, and diagnosis is often made only by examination. If necessary, computed tomography (CT scan), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI or MRA), TCD (Transcranial Doppler), carotid ultrasound, electroencephalography, electromyography, evoked potentials, and neurocognitive function tests are performed to help make a reliable diagnosis.

Symptoms requiring neurological care

Headache · Hemiplegia · Dysarthrosis · Dysbasia · Dizziness · Speech disorder · Tremors in limbs · Coma and unconsciousness · Numbness in hands and feet · Epileptic seizures · Facial paralysis · Fainting · Neuralgia · Memory loss · Muscle paralysis · Paresthesia · Slowness of movement · Eyelids droop when tired · Insomnia and sleep disorder · Seeing objects in two

Diseases treated in the Department of Neurology

Stroke · Dementia · Epilepsy · Hand tremors and Parkinson's disease · Headache · Sleep disorder · Facial paralysis · Dizziness · Peripheral neuropathy (numbness in hands and feet) · Muscle disease · Pain · Inflammation such as encephalitis and meningitis