title: Brain disorders don't disqualify workers from job.
abstract: A variety of neurological disorders afflict people in the workforce and the occupational physician faces tough decisions about them. Sometimes the afflicted individual is an applicant for a job. In other cases, he or she suffers a neurological disorder, ranging from epilepsy to senility, while an employee, often after long and valued service. Whether the decision pertains to hiring or to approval of a return to work, it's usually up to the occupational physician to make it. Often he or she is under strong pressure to make an expedient decision.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic; D001927:Brain Diseases; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic; D006801:Humans; D002537:Intracranial Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009787:Occupational Medicine