Neurology

People who have a stroke, brain aneurysm, or other brain and blood vessel condition, also called cerebrovascular disease, benefit from being evaluated and treated by the doctors of the specialty group for cerebrovascular diseases and critical care. Your neurologist works with doctors trained in brain and nervous system surgery (neurosurgeons), cardiologists, and others to ensure you get exactly the care you need.

You may be seen in the Heart Brain Clinic, one of the first such advanced multidisciplinary clinics in the United States. At this clinic, you'll experience real-time collaborative consults by teams of subspecialists probing the heart-brain linkage driving stroke. The Heart Brain Clinic is available at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and Rochester, Minnesota.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona; are each certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center — Arizona and Florida per Det Norske Veritas and Minnesota per The Joint Commission. Both are organizations that evaluate and accredit hospitals and staff. The Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Eau Claire and La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Mankato, Minnesota, are certified as Primary Stroke Centers by The Joint Commission.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota have achievement awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke program.

Conditions and treatments

• Amyloid angiopathy of the brain
• Antiphospholipid syndrome with neurological symptoms
• Arteritis, or vasculitis, of brain or neck arteries
• Brain aneurysm, ruptured or unruptured
• Brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation)
• Carotid artery disease
• Carotid bruit
• Carotid dissection
• Cavernous malformations
• Central nervous system arteritis
• Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarct and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
• Cerebral microbleeds by MRI
• Dural arteriovenous fistulas
• Genetic disorders of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
• Intracerebral hemorrhage of any cause
• Intracranial venous malformations
• Moyamoya disease
• Other brain arteritis or vasculitis syndromes
• Small vessel white matter disease
• Spinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
• Stroke
• Stroke prevention
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Takayasu's arteritis
• Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
• Vasculitis of central nervous system
• Venous, or dural, sinus thrombosis
• Vertebral or basilar artery stenosis or occlusion

Research advances that improve clinical care

Our physician-scientists and other researchers are committed to advancing the understanding of brain and blood vessel conditions, also called cerebrovascular diseases, and developing new treatments. They conduct research and review medical histories to learn how diseases progress, how to treat them and which treatments may be most appropriate for people. Read more about research in stroke and vascular disease.

Nationally recognized expertise

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, rank among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital and has been recognized as an Honor Roll member according to the U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 "Best Hospitals" rankings.