Neurology is a jungle of disorders and syndromes.

This creates a challenge for doctors and medical students…

What to prioritise for learning and practice?

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To solve this conundrum…

We combed the extensive database of Neurochecklists…

Seeking  neurological disorders with the worst prevalence and clinical burden.

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We then came up with this list of the top 30 neurological disorders

And we linked them to their handy clinical features checklists.

Here they are then…in alphabetical order.

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD)

Autoimmune encephalitis

Bacterial meningitis

Brachial neuralgia

Brain tumours

Cerebral palsy

Cluster headache

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)

Cerebral malaria

Epilepsy

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Essential tremor (ET)

Giant cell arteritis (GCA)

Huntington’s disease (HD)

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

Myasthenia gravis (MG)

Migraine

Mitochondrial diseases

Motor neurone disease (MND)

Multiple sclerosis (MS)

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Narcolepsy

Parkinson’s disease (PD)

Peripheral neuropathy (PN)

REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD)

Restless legs syndrome (RLS)

Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)

Tetanus

Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)

Stroke

Viral encephalitis

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