neurologist

American  

[noo-rol-uh-jist, nyoo-] / nʊˈrɒl ə dʒɪst, njʊ- /

noun

• neurologists
  plural

1. a physician specializing in neurology.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• neurologists
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of neurologist

First recorded in 1825–35; neurolog(y) + -ist

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Explanation

A doctor who specializes in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves is a neurologist. A neurologist treats patients with epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, and other disorders that involve the nervous system. You can think of a neurologist as a "brain doctor," although everything in your body that makes up your nervous system, from your brain to your nerves and ganglia, falls under their area of expertise. Neurologists are specially trained to diagnose and treat disorders ranging from concussion and migraines to stroke. The word neurologist comes from neurology and its Greek roots: neuro-, "nerves," and -logia, "study."

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“And I can’t do performances because what the neurologist told me, every time you do a show, it’s like you’re getting a concussion.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It's something Dr Nicholas Hac, a neurologist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who specialises in dizziness and vertigo, has also heard from some of his patients.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Dr. David Millett, a neurologist who examined Linton, suggested an evolving seizure could account for those details.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Even Sigmund Freud’s conception of a wild, uninhibited id struggling against the superego was influenced by the emerging discipline of brain science—specifically, the Scottish neurologist and psychologist David Ferrier’s theory of inhibition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But the neurologist was persuasive, intimidatingly handsome, and the recipient of a fabulously coveted research grant.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"We have clinical psychologists. We have a psychiatrist... There are also neurologists, so they work hand in hand with us," Syquia told AFP on a visit to the centre.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

Even in people with symptoms of cognitive decline, positive results on the FDA-cleared tests don’t prove that a patient has Alzheimer’s disease, neurologists caution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Similarly, there is an ever-shrinking number of nonprocedural specialists such as rheumatologists, neurologists and endocrinologists.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026

Saadi, the Harvard neurologist, said that as a general matter, determining whether someone had a seizure is “not something even neurologists can do accurately just by looking at it.”

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

Although neurologists are still exploring how the auditory cortex functions, they now believe that music processing is actually much more complex then initially imagined, and involves many more parts of the brain than previously thought.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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