Welcome to the Department of Neurology
Welcome to the Department of Neurology
Letter from the Chairman
Kenneth L. Tyler, MD, welcomes you to the Department of Neurology
As Chair, it’s a pleasure for me to welcome you to the Neurology Department of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
The Department is part of the University of Colorado | Anschutz Medical Campus and is one of the largest academic medical centers between Chicago and the West Coast. The School of Medicine is among the top medical schools nationally in NIH funding and partners with numerous nationally recognized affiliated hospitals.
Our Department is composed of more than 120 primary faculty members whose clinical and research interests and activities encompass all aspects of Neurology. Faculty are integrated into functional units, including Behavioral Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders, Headache & Pain Medicine, Neuro-Infectious Disease, Movement Disorders, Neuroimmunology, Autoimmune Neurology & Multiple Sclerosis, Neuromuscular Disorders, Neuro-Oncology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Neuropalliative Care and General Neurology, each of which strives to provide cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients and families dealing with neurological disease. ... read more
Neurology Subspecialties
Consultative Neurology
CU Alzheimer's and Cognition Center
Epilepsy/Neuro-Diagnostics
Epilepsy/NES (Non-Epileptic Seizures)
Headache/Pain Medicine
Movement Disorders
Neuro-Behavior/Memory Disorders
Neuro-Immunology/Multiple Sclerosis
Neuro-Infectious Disease
Neuro-Muscular Medicine
Neuro-Oncology
Neuro-Ophthalmology
Neuro-Palliative Care
Neuro-Vascular/Stroke
Olfactory Viral Inflammation May Accelerate the Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease
“We know that one of the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease is losing the sense of smell,” said the study’s lead author Andrew Bubak, PhD, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. News-Medical, Dec. 15, 2022
Should Rituximab Be Considered for Relapsing Forms of MS? Some Specialists Make the Case for It
Dr. John R. Corboy, co-director of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Professor of Neurology at CU School of Medicine, noted that the ICER assessment did not, however, include rituximab, a monoclonal antibody used heavily in some parts of the US, though almost never in others, as an off-label treatment for MS. Neurology Today, Dec. 15, 2022
How Long Can Running Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay?
“We all have healthy cells inside of our brain that allow us to speak, talk, and think,” says Dr. Victoria Pelak, Professor of Neurology and one of the many specialists the Macys have consulted since 2018. “They interact with other cells in the cortex that do a lot of automated functions, like keeping our heart rate going, or allowing us to digest.” For all of us, those cells begin to die off in our 40s, but in an Alzheimer’s patient it’s accelerated “10 to 100 times beyond the speed of death of our brain cells in the cortex over time,” she says. Runner’s World, Dec. 12, 2022
Former Broncos Players To Donate Their Brains to CTE Research
“People in professional sports and even in college sports will sustain hundreds or even thousands of injuries in a single season, perhaps. And that’s a significant problem. We think that these those injuries can cause long-term damage over years that could result in dementia,” said Dr. Christopher Filley, a Professor of Neurology who studies brain injuries for UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. Fox31, 12.11.22
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Neurology Clinic - University of Colorado Hospital
Phone: 720-848-2080
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E-Mail: Neurology-Administrative@ucdenver.edu