What is a neurologist?
Neurologists are those physicians whose interests and practice are devoted to the care of persons with disorders of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurologists diagnose and treat conditions of the brain (strokes, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis), spinal cord (tramatic injury, inflammatory disorders), motor neuron (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), neuromuscular junction (myasthenia gravis), muscle (muscular dystrophy, myositis), and peripheral nerve (Guillain-Barré syndrome, peripheral neuropathies). During the last half of the 20 th century, neurology grew from being a primarily diagnostic discipline to one in which pharmacological or other interventions are available for almost every neurological condition. Neurologists are now able to stop seizures, prevent or reduce the damage from strokes, ameliorate the abnormal movements of Parkinson’s disease, modify the natural history of multiple sclerosis, prolong useful function in Alzheimer
