(n.) One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diagnoses suggested by neurologists have been confirmed by the CT in 69%.
(2) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
(3) This population-based case-control study of 130 Calgary residents with neurologist-confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) and 260 randomly selected age- and sex-matched community controls attempted to determine whether agricultural work or the occupational use of pesticide chemicals is associated with an increased risk for PD.
(4) In a consecutive series of 515 first-ever strokes in a community-based study of stroke that combined prompt clinical assessment by a study neurologist with a high rate of confirmed pathologic diagnosis, 108 cases (21%) had a lacunar syndrome.
(5) The main role in the care of the patients was played by neurologists from the public health service, but the number of house visits provided by physicians of the basic health service was slightly higher than that provided by neurologists.
(6) A team including the neurologist, internist, ophthalmologist, and surgeon optimizes care of the whole disease and not just the symptom.
(7) The actual number of neurologists is compared with earlier projections of neurology needs for 1990.
(8) This supports claims for an increase in the number of neurologists to improve the quality of service at district level.
(9) At the end of the diagnostic process the surgeon or internist and neurologist must decide together whether the diagnosis is appropriate, and then whether an operative or non-operative approach to treatment is fitting.
(10) The referral source in different age groups varied, but in all age groups relatively few were referred by the general paediatricians or paediatric neurologists.
(11) The Society had 74 members, of whom 14 were neurologists: J. Breitenfeld, D. Cop, I. Glavan, I. Herzog, A. Kuljzenko, D. Karminski, M. Lapinskij, R. Lopasić, H. Ortyński, V. Ostrovidov, F. Palmović, S. Poljak and D. Vranesić, all of them from Zagreb, and J. Robida from Ljubljana.
(12) Of the patients with panic disorder 9% had previously been assessed by a cardiologist and 17% by a neurologist.
(13) Since invasion of the nervous system by this parasite is a significant cause of intracranial hemorrhage in Thailand, it should be kept in mind by internists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and pathologists who care for patients residing in, or who have visited, areas where G. spinigerum occurs.
(14) A case analysis has been performed on 4000 successive outpatient referrals to one consultant neurologist, representing 72% of all referrals to Charing Cross Hospital and 82% to Hillingdon Hospital.
(15) Testing the reliability and usefulness of disability scales in Parkinson's disease has been the object of a study carried out by 4 neurologists on 48 patients using 2 rating scales--Hoehn and Yahr staging and Columbia University Rating Scale--and 2 disability scales--Northwestern University Disability Scale and Extensive Disability Scale, a new scale conceived for this purpose, which is more accurate in examining in a different way the physical incapacity and handicap of parkinsonian patients in their daily living.
(16) Compelling reasons why neurologists, especially those with academic interests, should become involved in rehabilitation include the opportunity to observe patients in the recovery phases of their illnesses and to study issues relating to functional recovery, exposure to patients (such as those with spinal cord injury) who are often not seen by neurologists in the acute phase, and the opportunity to help establish a scientific base for rehabilitation medicine.
(17) Because of the increasing number of neuroethical dilemmas in medicine, neurologists are becoming more involved with the activities of institutional ethics committees and also serving as ethics consultants.
(18) Clinical, as well as basic neuroscience, information is culled by professional neurologists from 855 medical periodicals.
(19) Of 1761 three-year-old children born in 1979-80 and lived at Yonago city, Japan, 28 (1.6%; 25 boys and girls) were diagnosed as developmental speech delay by two pediatric neurologists.
(20) Random sample surveys of physicians and the general public by mail and telephone respectively and a mail survey of a selected panel of expert cardiologists and neurologists.
Neurology
Definition:
(n.) The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
(3) We measured soluble CD8 (sCD8) levels in the CSF of patients with MS, other inflammatory neurologic diseases (INDs), and noninflammatory neurologic diseases (NINDs).
(4) This investigation is thus indicated in patients with neurological symptoms.
(5) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(6) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(7) Definitive neurological deficits occurred in 0.09%, transient deficits were observed in 0.45%.
(8) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
(9) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(10) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
(11) When compared with a matched group of historical control subjects treated with RT alone, chemotherapy induced a higher rate of neurologic response and led to a longer survival time.
(12) Unrecognized flexion injuries of the cervical spine may lead to late instability and neurologic damage.
(13) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(14) A multicenter trial was conducted at 9 Neurology Departments to evaluate the action of L-Deprenyl, a specific monoamine oxidase-B inhibitor, combined with L-Dopa in the treatment of Parkinson disease.
(15) One subject had developed renal failure, while the other two continued to function at a high level with no evidence of cognitive decline or psychiatric or neurologic impairment.
(16) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(17) The major toxicity was neurologic, with 12 patients (41%) reporting at least one episode; four of which were graded as severe and two as fatal.
(18) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(19) Recent rapid developments in molecular biology have started to clarify the underlying pathophysiology of various neurological diseases.
(20) Neurological deficits are rare early in this disease.