Neurology

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Neurology
Headaches and neuralgias

Chronic headache

Subtypes (e.g., migraine, cluster, tension)

Differential diagnosis (incl. pseudotumor, temporal arteritis)

Management

Neuralgias

Clinical syndromes (trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, geniculate, occipital)

Etiologies/syndromes (Tolosa Hunt, post-herpetic)

Management

Epilepsy

Classification

Seizure presentations/ semiology

Management

Anti-convulsant medications

Agents

Side effects

Surgical evaluation and treatment

EEG

Basic EEG interpretation

Diagnostic EEG patterns (e.g., absence, Lennox-Gastaut, CJD)

Movement and gait disorders

Abnormal movements

Classification (e.g., tic, myoclonus, dystonia, chorea, tremor etc.)

Evaluation

Movement disorders

Parkinson/Parkinsonian syndromes (e.g., PSP, multisystem atrophy)

Huntington’s

Tremor (essential, benign, familial)

Other (including Wilson, Tourette, dystonia, Sydenham chorea, hemiballism)

Gait Disorders

Cerebellar disorders

Sensory ataxia

Neuromuscular and muscle disorders

Disorders of neuromuscular transmission

Myasthenia gravis and myasthenic syndrome

Other (e.g., botulinism)

Disorders of muscle

Muscular dystrophies

Myopathies

EMG/NCS/evoked potentials

Basic EMG/NCS/ EP interpretation

Diagnostic EMG/NCS/ EP patterns

Neuropathies and spinal cord disorders

Neuropathies

Hereditary neuropathies

Peripheral neuropathies

Polyneuropathies (including Guillan Barre, brachial plexitis, diabetic)

Mononeuropathies (including diabetic mononeuritis multiplex)

Motor neuron disease

ALS

Other (including spinal muscular atrophy)

Spinal cord disease

Myelopathies (including SCD, copper deficiency, compressive)

Demyelinating and infectious disease

Multiple sclerosis and immune-mediated disease

Types (including NMO, Transverse myelitis, ADEM)

Management

Infectious/Inflammatory

Infectious (including syphilis, lyme, TB, HSV, Toxo, Polio, SSPE, HIV, JC)

Inflammatory (including sarcoid, Rasmussen encephalitis)

Disorders of cognitive function

Dementia

Evaluation and differential diagnosis

Alzheimer disease

Non-Alzheimer dementias (including Pick’s, NPH, CJD)

Amnestic syndromes

Acute (e.g., trauma, ischemia, Wernicke, TGA)

Chronic (e.g., Korsakoff, limbic encephalitis)

Neuro-ophthalmology

Disorders of vision

Evaluation and diagnosis

Pupillary syndromes (e.g., Horner;s, Argyll-Robertson, Marcus Gunn)

Etiologies

Disorders of ocular motility

Evaluation and diagnosis

Syndromes (e.g., cavernous sinus, Gradenigo)

Etiologies

Compressive

Metabolic (e.g., diabetic)

Other (e.g., myasthenic)

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