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The
Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine is
one of the most exciting academic Departments in the
country. Long known for our
excellence in clinical neurology, devotion to patient
care, and commitment to clinical
and basic neuroscience research, the Department constantly
reevaluates and
attempts to improve its clinical services, educational
program and research activities.
The Department is a regional referral center that
evaluates and treats people who
live in the entire Rocky Mountain area as well as
Colorado. We service four
hospitals that care for tertiary referral patients, as
well as those with common
neurological disorders. Our outpatient clinic provides
care to patients with general
neurological disorders as well in the the subspecialties of neuro-ophthalmology,
movement disorders, behavioral neurology, neuro-oncology,
multiple sclerosis,
epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, nervous system infections
and stroke.
The Residency Program exposes our house officers to
various patients with acute,
subacute and chronic neurological disease. Residents work
closely with the full time
faculty who train them to become excellent clinical
neurologists. Each faculty
member is also assigned to be a resident mentor, thus
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relationship
that
helps residents adjust to, and plan for, a career in
Neurology. For
those who decide to take further training as clinical or
basic neuroscience fellows,
the faculty and Chairman help them plan a future in
clinical or academic medicine.
The Department of Neurology is known internationally for
its investigations in viral
and immunological disease of the nervous system. No
Department of neurology in
the world has as many individuals studying infectious
disease in the human
nervous system. More than 25 MDs, PhDs, graduate students
and professional
research assistants devote their total effort to identify
an antigen(s) in multiple
sclerosis, to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of
herpesvirus latency in the
human nervous system, and to determine the mechanism of
virus-induced
programmed cell death (apoptosis). Other major areas of
investigation in the
Department study neurotrophin development in the mammalian
eye, mechanisms
of neuronal inhibition and the properties of synaptic
connections between
neurons in epileptic neural networks.
Donald
H. Gilden, M.D.
Louise Baum Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
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