How to Localize Lesions in Neurology

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Neurology isn't a collection of syndromes to memorize. It's a system.

[00:00:04]And once you understand the map, everything clicks into place. The questions we ask really are, how high is the lesion?

[00:00:13]And then, how deep is the lesion?

[00:00:17]And using really that principle, we can localize exactly where it is.

[00:00:22]So, this is it. This is our entire map for our nervous system. This is the schema that we're going to keep in our mind every single time. We're going to keep coming back to the schema again and again.

[00:00:36]So, in our next episode, we're going to answer the single most important question in neurology. And that is, is the problem in the central nervous system or the peripheral nervous system?