Neurology
Overview
Provides specialist diagnosis and treatment for disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and muscles, including neurodegenerative, inflammatory, cerebrovascular, and neuromuscular disease.
Key Strengths at Kobe University Hospital
- Expert evaluation of difficult neurological disease, including progressive and rare disorders that require subspecialty work-up.
- Care for neuromuscular disease, immune-mediated neurologic disorders, and chronic degenerative disease with long-term follow-up.
- Collaboration with neurosurgery, rehabilitation, pathology, and other specialties for complex diagnostic and treatment planning.
Major Conditions / Services
- Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders
- Myasthenia gravis, neuropathy, and inflammatory neurologic disease
- Motor neuron disease and chronic neurodegenerative disorders
- Stroke-related and other neurologic complications in complex patients
Representative Procedures / Programs
- Electrophysiologic and neurologic diagnostic work-up
- Immunotherapy and long-term disease control for selected neurologic disorders
- Multidisciplinary management of chronic neurologic disability