Description
Diagnose, manage, and treat neurological disorders in infants, children, and adolescents, focusing on the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and neurodevelopment, with a primarily nonsurgical approach.
- • Participate in pediatric neuroscience research activities.
- • Provide training to medical students, residents, fellows, or staff in pediatric neurology.
- • Participate in continuing education activities to maintain and expand pediatric neurology competence.
- • Supervise neurodiagnostic technologists in pediatric neurological diagnostic or therapeutic activities.
- • Counsel children and families on neurological disorders, risk factors, genetic or environmental concerns, and developmental implications.
- • Interpret pediatric neuroimaging studies, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans.
- • Refer patients to other pediatric subspecialists or health care practitioners as necessary.
- • Advise pediatricians and other physicians on the treatment of neurological problems in children.
- • Prescribe or administer medications, such as anti-epileptic drugs, and monitor for growth, behavioral, and cognitive side effects.
- • Prescribe or manage treatments, such as vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and other pediatric-appropriate neuromodulation.
- • Prepare, maintain, or review pediatric records that include developmental histories, neurological examination findings, treatment plans, or outcomes.
- • Provide specialized care in areas such as pediatric epilepsy, sleep disorders, neuroimmunology, neuro-oncology, behavioral neurology, and neurogenetics.
- • Order or interpret results of laboratory analyses of patients' blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or genetic tests.
- • Order supportive care services, such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy, specialized nursing care, social services, and school accommodations.
- • Interview patients and caregivers to obtain complaints, symptoms, medical, family, prenatal, and developmental histories.
- • Inform families of neurological diagnoses and prognoses, and the benefits, risks, and costs of various treatment plans using age-appropriate communication.
- • Diagnose pediatric neurological conditions based on interpretation of examination findings, histories, or test results.
- • Develop treatment plans based on diagnoses and on evaluation of age, developmental stage, general health, and procedural risks and costs.
- • Determine brain death in infants and children using accepted pediatric tests and procedures.
- • Communicate with pediatric health care professionals regarding patients' conditions and care.
- • Coordinate neurological services with other pediatric health care team activities across care settings.
- • Perform or interpret the outcomes of procedures or diagnostic tests, such as lumbar punctures, pediatric electroencephalography, electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and evoked potentials.
- • Identify and treat major pediatric neurological diseases and disorders, such as epilepsy, headaches, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular diseases, central nervous system infections, craniospinal trauma, stroke, and neurocutaneous syndromes.
- • Examine infants, children, and adolescents to assess vision, motor function, coordination, reflexes, sensation, language, cognitive abilities, behavior, and developmental milestones.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
