The human neurological system is enormously complex, highly powerful, and a daunting challenge to understand. It has been called one medicine's last frontiers, its pathologies among its greatest mysteries.
Neuro disorders can affect the entire body and the whole person. Unfortunately, they are all too common: some 20 percent of the population is affected by a degree of neurological disorder during their lives.
Medicine has explored vast areas of the neuroscience frontier. Within the past decade, CT and MRI scanning have revolutionized the field, expanding our knowledge of neurological disorders and our ability to treat them. We can make sophisticated diagnoses of a head injury, stroke, brain tumor, or spinal cord injury. And these tools help us pinpoint the location of the pathology to facilitate treatment.