For physicians seeking to refer their patient for expert advice in pediatric neurology, categories of disorders which fall under the domain of Child Neurology are given below.
Neonates, Infants, Children and Adolescents (up to the age 18 year) with
1. Epilepsy including febrile seizures
2. Migraine and other headaches
3. Sleep Disorders such as night terrors, night mares, sleep walking
4. Movement disorders such as myoclonus, ataxia, choreo-athetosis, tics, dystonias
5. Developmental disorders such as Autism
6. Cerebral palsy
7. Developmental delay, Mental Retardation
8. Non-epileptic spells such breath-holding spells, syncope, pseudoseizures, vertigo,
9. Inborn errors of metabolism such as galactosemia, glycogen storage disorders, mitochondrial disorders,
10. Neuromuscular diseases such Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), congenital myopathies, myasthenia gravis
11. Neuropathies such as LGBS (Landry Guillain Barre Syndrome)
12. Stroke, Brain tumors, Multiple sclerosis,
13. Neurodegenerative disorders
14. Neurological emergencies such as menigitis, encephalitis, status epilepticus, tuberculous meningitis (TBM), neurocysticercosis (NCC), LGBS, minor head trauma