Child Neurologist Cares
The Child Neurology is a specialty of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the central nervous system (brain, cerebellum, brainstem, spinal) and peripheral (nerves and muscles) during all stages of life from conception – through the newborn, infant, preschool, school-to adolescence.
The Child Neurologist cares and is attentive to any deviation or alteration that the child present in their development, both from the cognitive perspective (learning, psychological) as a motor, in order to make an early diagnosis and timely treatment.
The child’s brain is a developing brain as the various manifestations of neurological diseases will be different according to age is presented.
The first objective will be to define whether it is a normal variation or a manifestation of disease.
In addition to identifying and treating these different manifestations, in order to avoid or minimize permanent damage in the development of the child – the Child Neurologist has a fundamental role in supporting and guiding the family group.