A neurologist is a medical doctor involved in the management of conditions affecting both the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system. Neurologists diagnose, treat and manage patients with a range of diseases, disorders and conditions affecting neurological function. These include:

• strokes
• multiple sclerosis
• headaches
• Parkinson's disease
• Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia
• motor neuron disease
• epilepsy
• spinal cord diseases
• muscle diseases like muscular dystrophy
• infections affecting the nervous system
• brain tumours (where surgery is required, the patient will be referred to a neurosurgeon)