Telephone: (303) 315-6461
Fax: (303) 315-5867
E-mail:  christopher.filley@uchsc.edu

Curriculum Vitae
 
Clinical Practice

Dr. Filley sub-specializes in behavioral neurology. He sees patients at the
University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Centers for Advanced Medicine at the
Fitzsimons campus, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Colorado Mental
Health Institute at Pueblo.. Click on Clinical Practice for complete information.

 
Research Interests

Dr. Filley has been involved in research on brain-behavior relationships since
joining the Department of Neurology faculty in 1984. One component of his
research has been the study of new medications for Alzheimer's Disease (AD),
and he has been an investigator in many clinical trials.   Dr. Filley has also
participated in a wide range of collaborative studies on other neurobehavioral
disorders, including traumatic brain injury, neurotoxic syndromes, multiple
sclerosis (MS), brain tumors, and developmental dyslexia. He has concentrated in
particular on the theoretical aspects of behavioral neurology, based on careful
observations of patients with brain disease or trauma. This work led to the
publication of his first book, Neurobehavioral Anatomy, now in its second edition.
 
A unifying theme of Dr. Filley's research in behavioral neurology has been a focus
on the cerebral white matter disorders. Toluene leukoencephalopathy and multiple
sclerosis have provided the foundation for much of this work, and Dr. Filley has
played a major role in many collaborative research projects on neurologic,
psychiatric, neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and neuropathological aspects
of these and other white matter disorders. He has also formally proposed the idea
of "white matter dementia" to call attention to the cognitive deficits that can be
ascribed to cerebral white matter involvement. He is currently studying the specific
patterns of cognitive dysfunction in MS, and he is pursuing detailed studies of
toluene leukoencephalopathy using comprehensive neuropsychological testing
and advanced neuroimaging techniques. The importance of white matter in human
behavior is the topic of Dr. Filley's second book, The Behavioral Neurology of
White Matter.