Introduction to the Department of Functional Neurology

  Functional neurological disorders are a group of diseases caused by the physiological dysfunction of the nervous system, such as epilepsy (commonly known as crohn’s disease), Parkinson’s and other movement disorders, intractable pain, cerebral palsy, facial spasm, etc. The main characteristic of these diseases is that with the current medical equipment, it is difficult to detect or find the obvious “foci” that cause clinical symptoms, so they are called functional neurological diseases.   These diseases include the following categories: 1. epilepsy: mainly includes various types of epilepsy and intractable epilepsy. 2.  Various types of intractable pain, including herpes zoster neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, cluster headache, phantom limb pain, amputation pain, thalamic pain, pelvic pain, abdominal pain, thoracic pain, low back pain, etc.  3.Facial muscle spasm.  4.Parkinson’s disease, primary tremor, dystonia, chorea, Tourette’s syndrome and other movement disorders.  5.Pediatric cerebral palsy.  6.Anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression and insomnia, etc.  The Department of Functional Neurology is a department that focuses on neurosurgical treatment techniques and emphasizes multidisciplinary collaboration, bringing together elites from various branches of neurology, surgery, and neuroelectrophysiology. It is capable of performing neurophysiological examination, drug treatment, preoperative evaluation, surgery, intraoperative monitoring, post-discharge rehabilitation and guidance, and other professional treatment processes. Now, our department is equipped with the world’s most advanced 128-lead neurophysiology equipment, intraoperative EEG monitoring system and other sophisticated microscopic neurosurgical instruments to ensure accurate diagnosis, precise positioning and good surgery for functional diseases, and to provide more reasonable and professional help to patients.