Divisions
Child Neurology
The Child Neurology Division is dedicated to provide quality, comprehensive neurological care to all children from the neonatal period through adolescence without regard to race, creed, socioeconomic status, or disability. It is also devoted to excellence in teaching to medical students, residents, patients and parents, and to cutting edge research to improve the treatment outcome of pediatric neurological diseases.
Epilepsy
The Stanford Epilepsy Center participates in medical education for the community, people and families of people with epilepsy, physicians locally and across the nation, physicians in training, medical students, nurses, neuropsychologists and neuroscience researchers about epilepsy.
The Clinical Epilepsy Center has outpatient facilities for evaluation of non-urgent patients with seizures, as well as an inpatient epilepsy unit dedicated entirely to diagnosis and treatment of problematic seizures. This five-bed unit can perform computer-enhanced video-EEG monitoring in order to capture episodes that might be seizures or one of the many imitators of seizures. The unit can admit children, or use two portable video EEG recording stations in Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. The center works with the most advanced techniques of neuroimaging, including high-resolution MRI, fast CT, CT, SPECT, MR spectroscopy, functional MRI and PET. We have available brain mapping procedures that image seizure foci in relation to critical regions of brain function. We can perform invasive monitoring with wires or grid electrodes in and on brain to better localize the seizure focus. We also perform research in new antiepileptic medications and novel surgical and nonsurgical treatments.
Memory & Behavioral Disorders
The Memory Clinic at Stanford provides an outpatient consultation service which includes diagnosis, treatment, and guidance for adults who have problems with memory or other cognitive functions. The clinic focuses particularly on cognitive dysfunction due to degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Clinicians use a multidisciplinary approach incorporating neuroimaging and neuropsychological findings into the diagnostic process. In addition to the clinical services, patients have the opportunity to participate in clinical research.
Movement Disorders
The Comprehensive Movement Disorders Program provides state of the art treatment of movement disorders through a combination of pharmacologic and surgical interventions such as deep brain stimulation and thalamotomy. Ongoing research includes studies using quantitative kinematic measurements, systems approach to the basal ganglia, and computational neural networks.
Multiple Sclerosis
The Multiple Sclerosis Program provides outpatient and inpatient diagnosis, second opinion, and management recommendation for patients with suspected multiple sclerosis. Evoked potentials and other specialized diagnostic testing are employed as needed.
Neuro-oncology
The Neuro-Oncology Program seeks to understand better the processes that underlie the formation of glioma as well as to devise better therapies for brain tumors. Research projects currently ongoing within the laboratory include assessment of dendritic cell immunotherapies, analysis of ENU-induced glioma formation, and a comparison of normal and neoplastic neural stem cells. Studies that address ways of optimizing gene array analysis of brain tumors are also being conducted.
Neuromuscular Disease
The Neuromuscular Program is devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of nerve and muscle diseases. Adult patients are seen in the Stanford Neuromuscular Clinic and the Electromyography Laboratory. In addition, Stanford partners with the national Muscular Dystrophy Association to provide multidisciplinary care to adults and children with muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, spinal muscular atrophy, polymyositis and ALS. The MDA Clinic brings experts in pulmonary medicine, physical and occupational therapy, social work and augmentative communication to work closely with our neuromuscular specialists. The Neuromuscular Disease Program also conducts clinical trials to test new and novel therapies of a wide range of neuromuscular disorders.
Stroke & Neurocritical Care
The Stanford Stroke Center brings together physicians from multiple specialties, including neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, internal medicine and emergency medicine to provide comprehensive evaluation and management of patients with cerebrovascular diseases.
Neuropsychology
The Neuropsychology Service provides assessment and diagnosis of the cognitive and behavioral effects of neurologic disorders, such as dementia and brain injury
