Tissa Wijeratne is a neurologist based in Pascoe Vale South, VIC, Australia. Neurology is about the brain, nerves, and the way signals move through the body. When things go wrong, it can affect your head, your balance, your movement, or how you use your muscles.
In day to day care, Tissa looks after people with long lasting or sudden nervous system problems. This can include headaches and migraine, including migraine with brainstem aura and familial forms. Vertigo is also part of the work, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, where some movements can trigger a spinning feeling. At times, patients also come in with issues like blepharospasm, Meige syndrome, Horner syndrome, and other movement related conditions.
Stroke and related conditions are another key part of the practice. This includes helping manage things like transient ischaemic attack (TIA), subarachnoid haemorrhage, increased intracranial pressure, and cerebral hypoxia. There is also focus on procedures such as thrombectomy and stent placement when appropriate, along with care for carotid artery disease. Tissa also supports people who have been affected by infections or inflammation that involve the brain or nervous system, such as encephalitis and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Some patients are dealing with epilepsy or seizures, while others have conditions that affect the nerves and spinal cord, like transverse myelitis, myelitis, and muscle atrophy. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is also included, along with other neurological inflammatory or immune related conditions listed in the practice, such as CACH syndrome, histiocytosis types, and haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. There is care available for people with Parkinson’s disease too, plus other movement disorders.
Long COVID and post infection symptoms can also bring people into neurology, including long haul COVID. At times, complex cases may include rare neurologic syndromes like Horner syndrome, or syndromes that can show up with changes to vision and facial muscles.
The goal is steady, practical care across a wide range of neurologic conditions. If symptoms are sudden or severe, it’s especially important to get urgent medical help, because some problems need quick action.
