The Neurology Department provides a specialist (tertiary) service for the diagnosis and treatment of children with neurological disorders, who are already under the care of a paediatrician or other paediatric specialist.
This means medical opinions, investigations and treatments which, because of their unusual or specialised nature, cannot be provided by a district hospital or community paediatric service (ie secondary level services).
The service is provided for children with the following disorders:
- epilepsy
- muscle disorders
- peripheral neuropathies
- malformations of the central nervous system
- neurodegenerative and neurometabolic disorders
- Joubert's syndrome
- Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC1)
- infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy
- subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- central nervous system infections
- trauma to the central nervous system
- spinal cord injuries
- head injuries
- tumours of the central nervous system
- neurocutaneous syndromes
- movement disorders
- Sydenham's disease
- headache and migraine
- neurovascular disorders
- neuropsychiatric disorders
- complex neurodevelopmental disorders (for diagnostic evaluation)