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Neurologists

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and disorders of the nervous system.

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioners

Interview patients to obtain information, such as complaints, symptoms, medical histories, and family histories.

Examine patients to obtain information about functional status of areas, such as vision, physical strength, coordination, reflexes, sensations, language skills, cognitive abilities, and mental status.

Perform or interpret the outcomes of procedures or diagnostic tests, such as lumbar punctures, electroencephalography, electromyography, and nerve conduction velocity tests.

Order or interpret results of laboratory analyses of patients' blood or cerebrospinal fluid.

Diagnose neurological conditions based on interpretation of examination findings, histories, or test results.

Prescribe or administer medications, such as anti-epileptic drugs, and monitor patients for behavioral and cognitive side effects.

Identify and treat major neurological system diseases and disorders, such as central nervous system infection, cranio spinal trauma, dementia, and stroke.

Develop treatment plans based on diagnoses and on evaluation of factors, such as age and general health, or procedural risks and costs.

Inform patients or families of neurological diagnoses and prognoses, or benefits, risks and costs of various treatment plans.

Prepare, maintain, or review records that include patients' histories, neurological examination findings, treatment plans, or outcomes.

Communicate with other health care professionals regarding patients' conditions and care.

Counsel patients or others on the background of neurological disorders including risk factors, or genetic or environmental concerns.

Interpret the results of neuroimaging studies, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.

Determine brain death using accepted tests and procedures.

Coordinate neurological services with other health care team activities.

Refer patients to other health care practitioners as necessary.

Advise other physicians on the treatment of neurological problems.

Participate in continuing education activities to maintain and expand competence.

Order supportive care services, such as physical therapy, specialized nursing care, and social services.

Provide training to medical students or staff members.

Supervise medical technicians in the performance of neurological diagnostic or therapeutic activities.

Participate in neuroscience research activities.

Perform specialized treatments in areas such as sleep disorders, neuroimmunology, neuro-oncology, behavioral neurology, and neurogenetics.

Prescribe or administer treatments, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation.

Audio evoked potential testers

Audio stimulators

Auditory function screeners

Automated external defibrillators AED

Automatic blood pressure cuffs

Neurologists

Overview

Career

What Neurologists Do

Other Job Titles Neurologists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Neurologists

Overview

Career

What Neurologists Do

Other Job Titles Neurologists May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Neurologists

Majors Related to Career