Neurology Services

The neurological specialists at St. Louis Children's Hospital, in affiliation with Washington University School of Medicine, provide compassionate, leading-edge care to infants, children and adolescents with neurological diseases.

Conditions treated include:

• Epilepsy
• Muscle diseases
• Cerebral palsy
• Diseases of the peripheral nerves
• Headaches
• Movement disorders
• Neurogenetic diseases
• Neurobehavior disorders
• Congenital defects of the brain and spinal cord
• Mental retardation and developmental delay
• Neurological complications of medical diseases
• Stroke
• Brain tumors
• Neurofibromatosis

Specialized services and procedures

St. Louis Children's Hospital's Pediatric Neurology Department offers a large inpatient service with sophisticated equipment used for epilepsy monitoring and intensive neurological rehabilitation. Other specialized procedures performed include:

• EEG - electroencephalogram
• EMG - electromyogram
• Nerve conduction velocity
• Muscle biopsy
• Sleep monitoring