A Neurologist specializes in the evaluation and treatment of all types of neurological disorders or impaired function of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, and autonomic nervous system, as well as the blood vessels that relate to these structures. These disorders include stroke, brain, and spinal tumors, muscular dystrophy, headache, and other pain, meningitis, encephalitis, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders, multiple sclerosis, and effects of systemic diseases, like high blood pressure and diabetes, on the nervous system. Specialty training required prior to certification: Four years

NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS SUBSPECIALTIES

1. Brain Injury Medicine
2. Clinical Neurophysiology
3. Epilepsy
4. Hospice and Palliative Medicine
5. Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
6. Neuromuscular Medicine
7. Pain Medicine
8. Sleep Medicine
9. Vascular Neurology