Test category · Specialty diagnostics

Neurology

Recordings of the brain, nerves and muscles, tests of the spinal fluid and autonomic function, cognitive assessment and the imaging of the nervous system.

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Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Cerebrospinal fluid analysis (CSF analysis) · also: CSF Laboratory test
  • Tilt-table test · also: head-up tilt test Functional test
  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) Functional test
  • Ambulatory EEG Functional test
  • Video EEG · also: video telemetry Functional test
  • Electromyography (EMG) Functional test
  • Nerve conduction studies (NCS) Functional test
  • Visual evoked potentials (VEP) Functional test
  • Brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER, ABR) · also: auditory brainstem response Functional test
  • Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) Functional test
  • Lumbar puncture (LP) · also: spinal tap Diagnostic procedure
  • Autonomic function testing Functional test
  • Quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test (QSART) Functional test
  • Neuropsychological testing Screening tool
  • Cognitive screening · also: MMSE, MoCA Screening tool
  • Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Imaging
  • Brain SPECT · also: DaTscan Imaging
  • Epilepsy monitoring · also: video-EEG telemetry Functional test
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