Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Certification Requirements

1. Cerebral cortex and its parts
2. Limbic and paralimbic structures
3. Basal ganglia
4. Diencephalon
5. Brainstem
6. Cerebellum
7. White matter
8. Cortico-cortical and cortical-subcortical circuits and networks
9. Regional cerebral specialization
10. Neurochemistry – neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, neurohormones
11. Cerebrovascular and ventricular systems

1. Neurological Examination
   1. Elemental neurological function 2. Neurological “soft-signs”
   3. Standardized rating scales

2. Mental Status Examination
   1. General assessment of cognition, emotion, and behavior
   2. Cognitive examination, including quantified clinical assessments
   3. Standardized assessments of neuropsychiatric symptoms and syndromes
   4. Clinical interpretation of mental status examination findings

3. Neuropsychological Assessment
   1. Indications for neuropsychological testing in evaluation and treatment planning
   2. Content, sensitivity, and specificity of neuropsychological testing
   quantified clinical assessments
   3. Factors that influence test performance
   4. Relationship between neuropsychological tests and bedside or office-based quantified clinical assessments
   5. Clinical interpretation of neuropsychological test results

4. Neuroimaging
   1. Principles and applications of structural and functional imaging
   2. Correlation between neuroimaging and clinical examination
   3. Neuroimaging biomarkers of neurobehavioral and neuropsychiatric conditions, including neurodegeneration and neurotrauma

5. Electrophysiologic Testing
   1. Principles and applications of electrophysiologic recordings
   2. Correlation between electrophysiologic findings and clinical examination
   3. Electrophysiologic biomarkers of neurobehavioral and neuropsychiatric conditions, including neurodegeneration and neurotrauma

6. Laboratory Studies
   1. Indications for serum and urine studies
   2. Indications for and interpretation of results from CSF examinations 3. Neurogenetics of neurobehavioral and neuropsychiatric conditions 4. Neuropathology of neurobehavioral and neuropsychiatric conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular disorders, and neurotrauma

Somatic Therapies
1. Neuropharmacologic agents
2. Adverse effects of neuropharmacologic agents and drug-drug interactions
3. Non-invasive neuromodulation, including electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation
4. Neurosurgical interventions, including deep brain stimulation, vagal nerve stimulation, and lesional procedures
5. Psychosocial Interventions
6. Supportive therapy
7. Cognitive-behavioral therapy
8. Cognitive rehabilitation
9. Family and systems therapy
10. Environmental interventions
11. Behavioral management strategies

1. Focal Neurobehavioral Syndromes, including disorders of:

   1. Arousal (e.g., coma, vegetative states, minimally conscious states)
   2. Perception (e.g., illusions, hallucinations, sensory impairments)
   3. Attention (e.g., delirium/acute confusional states, hemispatial inattention/neglect)
   4. Language (e.g., aphasias, affective aprosodias)
   5. Memory (e.g., amnesias)
   6. Praxis (e.g., apraxias)
   7. Recognition (e.g., agnosias)
   8. Executive function
   9. Social cognition (e.g., comportment, emotional recognition, theory of mind)
   10. Motivation (e.g., apathy, abulia, akinetic mutism)

 Neuropsychiatric Syndromes
1. Intellectual disabilities
2. Communication disorders
3. Autism spectrum disorder
4. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
5. Specific learning disorder
6. Motor disorders, including developmental coordination disorder and stereotypic movement disorder
7. Tic disorders, including Tourette syndrome
8. Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
9. Mood disorders, including bipolar, depressive, and related disorders
10. Disorders of affect, including pathological laughing and crying (also known as pseudobulbar affect)
11. Anxiety disorders
12. Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
13. Trauma and stress-related disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
14. Dissociative disorders
15. Somatic symptom and related disorders, including somatoform and functional neurological disorders
16. Sleep-wake disorders
17. Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
18. Substance-related and addictive disorders
19. Neurocognitive disorders, including delirium, mild cognitive impairment (i.e., Mild Neurocognitive Disorder) and dementia (i.e., Major Neurocognitive Disorder)
20. Paraphilic disorders
21. Personality disorders, including personality change due to neurological conditions

1. Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Manifestations of Neurological Disorders
   1. Neurodegenerative disorders, such as

   • Alzheimer's disease
   • Frontotemporal lobar degeneration/Frontotemporal dementia

   2. Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
   3. Epilepsy
   4. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases
   5. Traumatic brain injury
   6. Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury
   7. Hydrocephalus, including obstructive and normal pressure types
   8. Primary and secondary brain tumors
   9. Central nervous system infections
   10. Neuroendocrine disorders
   11. Toxic exposures/ingestions
   12. Metabolic disorders, including solid organ failure and transplantation and inborn errors of metabolism
   13. Movement disorders, including neurodegenerative, acquired, and medication-induced types

   • Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
   • Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
   • Lewy body dementia (LBD)
   • Parkinson's disease
   • Huntington disease

   14. Headache
   15. Acute and chronic pain
   16. Autoimmune disorders affecting the central nervous system, including autoimmune encephalopathies