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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