peripheral neuropathy (motor, sensory and autonomic)
benign intracranial hypertension
concussion
traumatic brain injury
trigeminal neuralgia
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
restless leg syndrome and periodic limb movement
motion sickness.
Diagnose and manage less common neurological disorders:
multiple sclerosis
myasthenia gravis
motor neurone disease
polyneuropathy
myopathy (inherited or acquired)
other types of dementia, including Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and mixed dementia
berry aneurysm
Korsakoff syndrome and Wernicke encephalopathy
Huntington’s disease
normal pressure hydrocephalus
Arnold Chiari malformation
brain tumours, benign and malignant
hypersomnolence and narcolepsy
other intracranial bleeding (extradural and subdural haemorrhage).
Counsel, and appropriately refer for genetic testing and counselling, the patient with a neurological illness with a genetic component, or with a family history of a neurological illness with a genetic component. This includes, but is not limited to, Huntington’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and certain brain tumours/cancer syndromes.
Understand the medico-legal considerations for neurological presentations/disorders, such as fitness to drive or ability to fulfil a job role safely.