📈 Diagnostic Criteria

Listed alphabetically:

💡 CNS Inflammation

Autoimmune & Paraneoplastic Encephalitides

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders (NMOSD)

Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-associated Disease (MOGAD)

💡 Cognitive & Behavioural Neurology

Alzheimer’s Disease

Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Frontotemporal Dementia

Other Dementias

⚡ Epilepsy

💢 Headache

# Primary Headaches

# Secondary Headaches

🛑 Red Flags of Secondary Headaches

  • SNOOP4 (American Headache Society, 2021) 🇺🇸

    • Systemic symptoms and signs

    • Neurologic symptoms or signs

    • Onset sudden

    • Older age at onset (>50 years)

    • Pattern change/progression

    • Precipitated by Valsalva maneuver

    • Positional aggravation

    • Papilledema

  • SNOOP10 (Neurology, 2019) 🇨🇦

🤯 Thunderclap Headache

  • Definition

    • “A thunderclap headache is defined as a sudden onset headache reaching maximum intensity in <1 minute and lasting >5 minutes.” - Karsan & Goadsby (2023) 🇬🇧 [full paper]

🌀 Movement Disorders

🧬 Neurocutaneous Disorders

🩸 Vascular Neurology

# Ischemic Stroke Etiological Classifications

  • ASCOD (2013) 🌐

    • Atherosclerosis

    • Small-vessel disease

    • Cardiac pathology

    • Other cause

    • Dissection

  • THROMBEX (2021) 🇩🇪 - classification limited to embolic strokes

    • Cardioembolic

    • Arterioembolic

    • Other

    • Embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS)

# Stroke Scales

# Vascular Imaging