Neurology in Minnesota

Behavioral Neurology

Staff in the Division of Behavioral Neurology evaluate and treat individuals with disorders of the brain which affect memory, language, visuospatial functioning, judgement/problem solving, or personality/behavior.

Conditions and Symptoms Treated

Our staff evaluate individuals with symptoms such as:

• Forgetfulness
• Confusion
• Disorientation
• Language difficulties
• Poor judgement
• Poor problem-solving abilities
• Personality/behavior changes
• Tendency to get lost
• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Aggressive behavior

Our staff has expertise in evaluating and managing a variety of conditions such as:

• Degenerative disorders/dementia
  • Mild cognitive impairment
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • Parkinson's disease with dementia
  • Lewy body dementia/Lewy body disease/dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Frontotemporal dementia/Pick's disease
  • Primary progressive aphasia
  • Corticobasal degeneration
  • Progressive cortical visual dysfunction syndrome/posterior cortical atrophy
  • Progressive visuospatial/visuoperceptual Syndrome
  • Huntington's disease
• Vascular dementia
  • Multi-Infarct dementia
  • Binswanger's disease
  • Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
• Prion disorders
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  • Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)
• Autoimmune/inflammatory encephalopathies
  • Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis/ "Hashimoto's encephalopathy"
  • Sjogren's associated encephalopathy
  • Nonvasculitic autoimmune inflammatory meningoencephalopathy (NAIM)
• Cognitive impairment/behavioral changes associated with head trauma, brain tumors, encephalitis, stroke and sleep disorders.

Staff

Rochester

• Bradley F. Boeve, M.D.
• Daniel A. Drubach, M.D.
• Keith A. Josephs, M.D.
• David S. Knopman, M.D.
• Ronald C. Petersen, Ph.D., M.D.

Jacksonville

• Neill R. Graff-Radford, M.B., Ch.B.

Scottsdale

• Richard J. Caselli, M.D.
• Bryan K. Woodruff, M.D.

Research

The Behavioral Neurology Group is active in a variety of research areas including:

• Mayo Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
  Mayo Clinic is one of a few large medical centers designated by the National Institutes of Health and the National Instiute on Aging as an Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. As a leader in Alzheimer's disease research, Mayo Clinic researchers have characterized the condition "mild cognitive impairment" which is often the precursor to Alzheimer's disease, and have been leaders in techniques that enable early diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and other neurodegenerative disorders.