Neuroscience Center of Excellence
Neurology
Neurologists at the Memorial Regional Hospital Neuroscience Center of Excellence diagnose and non-surgically treat disorders of the nervous system, from migraine headaches to muscular dystrophy. Some other common problems that neurologists diagnose and treat are stroke, epilepsy, dementia, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
Among the Neurosciences Center's specialized neurological tests are CAT (computerized axial tomography) scans, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), spinal taps and EEG (electroencephalography). Electromyography/nerve conduction velocity testing (EMG/NCV) helps to diagnose nerve and muscle problems, and sleep EEGs allow neurologists to evaluate nerve patterns in adults and children who might be experiencing seizure activity while asleep. Another test, Somato Sensory Evoked Potential, uses painless electrical stimulation to help evaluate the extent and location of nerves damaged by disease or trauma.
Our neurologists use many types of medications to treat problems. Other specialists may be consulted or a surgical evaluation suggested.
Brain, spine and nerve disorders the neurologists at Memorial Regional Hospital diagnose and treat include:
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease)
- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Autism
- Back pain
- Bell's palsy
- Cephalic disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Dementia
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Fibromyalgia
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Headache
- Huntington's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Lyme disease
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Movement disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Multisystem atrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myopathies
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuropathy
- Parkinson's disease
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
- Seizure disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Tumors of the nervous system
- Vertigo
For more information about the Memorial Regional Hospital Neurosciences Center of Excellence,
call (954) 987-2020, extension 3449.