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
Aggression Aimed at Caregivers in Parkinson’s Linked to Patients’ Grief
“This is an issue that we think is very much underrecognized,” Zachary Macchi, who led the study, said in a press release, adding that “this is a factor likely driving caregiver burden for some people.” Parkinson’s News Today, Nov. 9, 2022
Mystery Solved? How Shingles Can Increase Stroke Risk
The study’s corresponding author is assistant professor Andrew Bubak at the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado [Anschutz Medical Campus]. “We now have to start thinking about infectious diseases a bit differently — once infection has resolved, disease is not over. Persistent exosomes may continue to trigger pathologies thought to be unrelated to, and distant from, the site of the original infection,” Bubak told MNT. Medical News Today, Nov. 4, 2022
In a Year It Was Supposed to Flare, Polio-like Syndrome in Kids Doesn’t, Adding to Mystery
Physicians who treat children who develop a strange polio-like syndrome known as acute flaccid myelitis had been steeling themselves this fall for an onslaught of cases of the irreversible condition, which appears to be triggered by infection with an enterovirus known as EV-D68. STAT, Oct. 31, 2022
Pandemic ‘Immunity Gap’ Is Probably Behind Surge in RSV Cases
“The degree of societal changes that occurred with the Covid pandemic really is unprecedented in modern day,” said Dr. Kevin Messacar, associate professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. CNN, October 26, 2002
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Neurology Clinic - University of Colorado Hospital
Phone: 720-848-2080
Neurology Administration
E-Mail: Neurology-Administrative@ucdenver.edu