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Child neurology is a specialized clinical discipline that deals with neurological conditions and diseases in children and adolescents. Child neurology requires a good knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and pathomorphology of the nervous system during childhood development. Some of the common problems that are sought for consultation with a specialist - child neurologist are:
• headaches
• behavioral deviations
• child neuroses
• epilepsy
• heat seizures
• cerebral palsy
• stuttering
• urinary incontinence
• anxiety neurosis
• hyperactivity
There are a lot of typical groups of diseases for children, such as hereditary or congenital malformations of the nervous system, dysmetabolic encephalopathies, neuromuscular diseases, epilepsy and epileptic syndromes, nonepileptic paroxysmal conditions, certain types of encephalitis and tumors injuries as a result of birth asphyxia or trauma.
Child neurology requires application of specific neurological research methods, development of clinical training for topical diagnosis of neurological syndromes, reading specific neuroimaging results and functional methods (EEG, EMG, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, extracranial and transcranial Doppler sonography, cerebral angiography, induced brain stem and visual potentials, etc.).
Child neurology is a medical discipline for normal or abnormal central and peripheral nervous system development in children and adolescents as well as diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases in this age. Doctors with specialty "Child Neurology" should know, diagnose and treat common somatic pathology in children, so these specialists must have education in general pediatrics for diseases of respiratory, cardiovascular, urinary, gastrointestinal, endocrine system.
