• The department collaborates with Neurosurgery and uses an integrative approach to training. At the undergraduate level, the subject is a part of General Medicine.
• Neurologists may also be involved in clinical research and clinical trials as well as basic research and translational research.
• Undergraduates learn about the more common neurological conditions like headaches. The MD residents learn through assisting, practicing and get teaching experience, when they run ‘clinics’.
• The department has a highly advanced Neurophysiology lab where procedures such as ECG and EMG are done. The department also has a dedicated Neurology ICU and a department-specific OT.

Some of the conditions Neurologists encounter are –

• Headache disorders such as migraines and tension induced headaches.
• Episodic conditions like seizures and epilepsies.
• Neurodegenerative disorders, the most common of which is dementia including Alzheimer’s disease.
• Cerebrovascular disease, such as transient ischemic attack, and strokes.
• Cerebral palsy
• Infections of the central nervous system (encephalitis), brain coverings (meningitis) and peripheral nerves such as herpes.
• Neoplasms – tumors of the brain and its envelopes (brain tumors), spinal cord tumors, tumors of the peripheral nerves (neuroma).
• Movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, chorea, hemiballismus, tic disorder, and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
• Traumatic injuries to the brain spinal cord and peripheral nerves.