neurology

see also:

• neurosurgery
• psychiatry and mental health
• neuroanatomy
• neurology / acute stroke services at Western Health

• cranial nerve examination
• sensory & motor testing including dermatomes, myotomes, reflexes, coordination & balance
• sandnsurf.com - Gate's anatomy of the brainstem rules
• cognitive testing:
  • cognition
  • mental state - delirium vs dementia vs psychosis
  • AMTS cognitive impairment test
  • CAM confusion assessment test for diagnosis of delirium
  • Clock test - a measure of frontal and executive functioning and need for further dementia testing
  • Geriatric depression scale
  • Mini-mental state examination
  • Modified Mini-Cog Test
  • Differentiating conversion disorder from malingering
  • musical beat perception
  • Western Health CPG 8.2 Cognitive Impairment Identifier (WH intranet only)

• seizures and Mx of status epilepticus
• drug-induced seizures
• paediatric seizures
• anticonvulsants
• stroke (CVA)
• transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
• delirium
• dementia
• headache
• meningitis
• encephalitis
• encephalopathy
• subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)
• vertigo
• paraesthesiae or numbness
• allodynia - painful touch when there should not be pain
• hyperalgesia - increased sensitivity to painful stimuli
• spinal cord syndromes and lesions
• acute spinal cord compression
• neuropathies
• reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) / complex regional pain syndrome / causalgia
• peripheral neuropathy
• Facial nerve palsy (Bell's palsy)
• autonomic dysfunction and autonomic neuropathy
• myasthenia gravis
• Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)
• chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• acute weird neurology symptoms
• insomnia
• restless legs syndrome
• prosopagnosia (impaired facial recognition / blindness)