# Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Neurological Disorders
> **US Social Security Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2016-07-01 · Effective 2016-09-29 · 81 FR 43048
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-15306
- **Category:** ssa-disability
- **Agency:** US Social Security Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 43048
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 404
- **Publication date:** 2016-07-01
- **Effective date:** 2016-09-29
- **Docket:** Docket No. SSA-2006-0140
## Abstract

We are revising the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate disability claims involving neurological disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). These revisions reflect our program experience; advances in medical knowledge, treatment, and methods of evaluating neurological disorders; comments we received from medical experts and the public at an outreach policy conference; responses to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM); and public comments we received in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and a Federal Register notice that reopened the NPRM comment period.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/07/01/2016-15306/revised-medical-criteria-for-evaluating-neurological-disorders)
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