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Neurology in Arizona

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Neurology is the study and treatment of diseases of the nervous system. The nervous system includes:

  • Brain and spinal cord (and their coverings)
  • Cranial nerves connected to the eyes, face, ears, nose and throat
  • Peripheral nerves which supply the arms and legs
  • Muscles of the body
  • Autonomic nerves which innervate the internal organs including the blood vessels and sweat glands

Diseases and Conditions Treated in Neurology

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B

C

D

  • Deep brain stimulation
  • Degenerative disk
  • Delirium
  • Dementia
  • Dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Demyelinating polyneuropathy or polyradiculoneuropathy
  • Demyelinating Disease
  • Dermatomyositis
  • Devic's syndrome or disease
  • Diabetic amyotrophy
  • Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
  • Diffuse Lewy body disease
  • Diplopia
  • Disk disease
  • Disk space infection or diskitis
  • Dissection, basilar or carotid
  • Disseminated encephalomyelitis (acute)
  • Double vision
  • Drop attacks
  • Dysarthria
  • Dysautonomia or dysautonomic neuropathy
  • Dysesthesia
  • Dyskinesia
  • Dysphagia alone or with muscle disease, myasthenia, or Lambert-Eaton disease
  • Dysphasia
  • Dyspnea with muscle disease, myasthenia, or Lambert-Eaton disease
  • Dystonia

E

F

  • Facial palsy
  • Facial spasms or hemifacial spasms
  • Familial tremor
  • Fascioscapulohumeral (FSH) muscular dystrophy
  • Fasciculations
  • Femoral neuropathy
  • Friedreich's ataxia
  • Frontotemporal dementia

G

  • Gait disturbance or unsteadiness
  • Genetic disorders of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
  • Gerstmann-Straussler-Schenker (GSS) disease or syndrome
  • Giant cell arteritis
  • Glioblastoma multiforme
  • Glioma
  • Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
  • Granulomatous vasculitis of CNS
  • Guillain Barré syndrome

H

I

  • Ice pick pain headache
  • Intracerebral or intracranial hemorrhage (ICH)
  • Idiopathic hypersomnia
  • Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension
  • Imbalance
  • Inclusion body myositis (IBM)
  • Incoordination
  • Infarct (cerebral)
  • Inflammatory myopathy
  • Inherited neuropathies
  • Intracranial hemorrhage

L

  • Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
  • Leukodystrophy
  • Leukoencephalopathy (progressive multifocal) (PML)
  • Lewy body disease
  • Limb girdle dystrophy
  • Limbic encephalitis
  • Low-back pain
  • Lumbar pain
  • Lumbar radiculopathy
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis
  • Lumbar spondylosis
  • Lumbosacral plexopathy
  • Lyme disease with cranial nerve palsy, meningitis, or myelopathy
  • Lymphoma, brain or spinal cord

M

N

  • Narcolepsy
  • Neck pain
  • Neuralgic amyotrophy
  • Neurofibromatosis
  • Neurogenic bowel or bladder dysfunction with or without obvious cause
  • Neuro-infectious disease
  • Neuromyelitis optica
  • Neuropathies
  • Neurosarcoidosis
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Nonvasculitic autoimmune inflammatory meningoencephalitis (NAIM)
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
  • Numbness and tingling
  • Nystagmus

O

  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Oculomotor (third cranial nerve) palsy
  • Oligodendroglioma
  • Optic neuritis
  • Orthostatic hypotension or intolerance

P

  • Pachymeningitis (hypertrophic)
  • Papilledema
  • Paraneoplastic disorder of nervous system
  • Paraparesis or paraplegia
  • Parasitic brain abscess
  • Parasomnia
  • Paresthesias
  • Parkinsonism
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Pediatric brain tumors
  • Pediatric hydrocephalus
  • Periodic limb movement disorder
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Peripheral neuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy
  • Peroneal neuropathy
  • Pick's disease
  • Pinched nerve in spine
  • Pineal tumor
  • Pituitary tumor
  • Polymyositis
  • Polyneuropathy
  • Polyradiculopathy
  • Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA)
  • Post-herpetic neuralgia
  • Post-polio syndrome
  • Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
  • Primary lateral sclerosis
  • Primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
  • Prion disease
  • Progressive bulbar palsy
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
  • Progressive nonfluent aphasia
  • Progressive nonspondylotic myelopathy
  • Progressive pseudobulbar palsy
  • Progressive cortical visual dysfunction syndrome
  • Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
  • Pseudobulbar palsy (progressive)
  • Pseudotumor cerebri
  • Ptosis
  • Pulsatile tinnitus
  • Pure autonomic failure

Q

  • Quadriparesis or quadriplegia (not due to trauma or injury)

R

  • Radial neuropathy
  • Radiculopathy
  • Recurrent meningitis
  • REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
  • Restless legs syndrome (RLS)
  • Rhabdomyolysis
  • Rhabdomyolysis with muscle disease
  • Ruptured disk

S

  • Sarcoidosis of nervous system
  • Scapuloperoneal dystrophy
  • Sciatica
  • Sciatic neuropathy
  • Secondary brain tumor
  • Seizure surgery
  • Semantic dementia
  • Seizures
  • Sensory neuropathy
  • Shy-Drager syndrome
  • SLE with central nervous system involvement
  • Slurred speech
  • Small fiber neuropathy
  • Small vessel white matter disease
  • Spasticity
  • Speech disturbance
  • Spells (excluding TIA's)
  • Spina bifida
  • Spinal abscess
  • Spinal arteriovenous malformations
  • Spinal cord disease
  • Spinal cord metastases with unknown site of primary
  • Spinal cord tumor
  • Spinal muscular atrophy
  • Spinal stenosis
  • Spinocerebellar disease or degeneration
  • Spondylolisthesis
  • Spondylosis
  • Spondylotic myelopathy
  • Stiff-man syndrome or stiff-person syndrome
  • Stroke
  • Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)
  • Subdural hemorrhage or hematoma (SDH)
  • Supranuclear palsy
  • Syringomyelia

T

  • Tardive dyskinesia
  • Tay-Sachs disease
  • Temporal arteritis
  • Thalamic pain
  • Third nerve palsy
  • Thoracic radiculopathy
  • Tic douloureux
  • Tics
  • Tingling and numbness
  • Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
  • Torticollis
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Toxoplasmosis of central nervous system
  • Transient global amnesia (TGA)
  • Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
  • Transverse myelitis
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Tremor
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Tuberculosis of central nervous system

U

  • Ulnar neuropathy
  • Unsteadiness of gait

V

  • Vascular headache
  • Vasculitis of central nervous system
  • Venous angioma
  • Venous malformation
  • Venous thrombosis (cerebral, brain)
  • Vertebral artery stenosis, blockage or dissection
  • Vertebrobasilar insufficiency
  • Vertigo
  • Visual loss
  • Visual problems without eye disease
  • Vocal cord paralysis

W

  • Weakness of muscles (not entire body)
  • Wegener's granulomatosis involving the nervous system
  • Whipple's disease
  • Writer's cramp

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