Neurology
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During this elective, you will achieve a better understanding of the general methodological approach of the child neurologist and a keen sense of when a child neurologist should be consulted. Specifically, you will
- evaluate, classify and treat patients with childhood headache diatheses, cyclic vomiting, pseudotumor cerebri, status epilepticus, neonatal hypoxic-ischemia, cerebral palsy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, encephalomyelitis, cerebellar ataxias, epilepsy, common and complex childhood seizure, coma and brain death
- become exposed to the general principles of the evaluation of ADHD, academic underachievement, metabolic, genetic and degenerative disorders, macrocephaly, microcephaly and hydrocephaly