Neurological disorders involve complex systems in the body. You may hear your pediatrician and other doctors use technical terms.
Some terms related to neurological disorders and their related symptoms include:
- Epilepsy: Disorders marked by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain and typically causing sudden brief episodes of altered or diminished consciousness, involuntary movements, or convulsions
- Attention deficit disorder (ADD): a syndrome of disordered learning and disruptive behavior characterized primarily by inattentiveness or symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsive behavior (as in speaking out of turn)
- Cerebral palsy: A disability characterized by speech disturbances and lack of coordination and resulting from damage to the brain before, during, or shortly after birth
- Muscular Dystrophy: A heredity disorder resulting in weakness and dysfunction of the muscles
- Seizure: Sudden erratic changes in how a person feels, senses, or behaves caused by an excessive release of electrical activity in the brain
- Spina Bifida: A defect of the spinal column caused when a portion of the neural tube fails to close properly during prenatal development.
- Hydrocephalus: A condition in which excess fluid builds up in the brain, causing abnormal enlargement of brain cavities
- Autism: A brain disorder that affects three crucial areas of development: communication, social interaction, and creative or imaginative play. Usually begins in early childhood and persists throughout adulthood.
- Sleep apnea: Frequent periods of stopped breathing, lasting 10 seconds or longer, that disrupt sleep.
- Tourette syndrome: A neurological condition characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalization
- Myasthenia gravis: A chronic autoimmune disorder that results in progressive skeletal muscle weakness.
- Myopathies: Inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases of muscle
- Ponseti: A treatment for clubfoot using manipulation and application of five or six plaster casts.
At Rainbow we offer many therapies and procedures to accurately diagnose various neurological disorders and help us determine the best course of treatment. A few of them are:
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Auditory, visual and somato-sensory evoked potentials
- electroretinography for disorders of the brain, spinal cord and special senses.