
Neurology
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Your nervous system controls how you sense and react to the world around you. It involves your brain, spinal cord, muscles and nerves.
Neurologists are doctors who detect and treat these and other related problems:
- Alzheimer's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- nerve and sleep disorders
- headaches
- brain and spinal cord injuries
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- multiple sclerosis (MS)
- pain
- seizures
- tremors
- brain tumors
Related links
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Allina Health's John Nasseff Neuroscience Institute
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Brain tumors and neuro-oncology care
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Brain injury rehabilitation
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Relieve your headache pain
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Abbott Northwestern's Neuroscience Institute
Source: American Board of Medical Specialties; American Medical Association; Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Lexicon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994
Reviewed by: Steven Bergeson, MD, medical director of quality, Allina Health clinics; J Richard Sheely, MD, medical director, Allina Health clinics
First published: 8/1/2004
Last reviewed: 11/6/2012