World-Renowned Neurologists.
Elite Biomedical Scientists.

Life-Changing Results.

The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology created a visionary model of neurological care through our culture of revolutionary interdisciplinary biomedical discoveries that enabled us to envision neurological diseases (as lifespan disorders), defining an entirely new field of study and forever changing the lens through which neurological diseases are understood.

Our paradigm-shifting “lifespan” concepts and culture of innovation have resulted in advancing our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders and that childhood and early onset disorders necessitate different treatment modalities as the brain changes during adult life and aging. As medical breakthroughs have increased the median survival of these profound disorders, our institution offers a destination site reflecting the aspiration that these patients can lead increasingly productive and fulfilling lives as they age. From our world-defining Center for Autism and Pediatric Communication Disorders to our Center for Rett Syndrome, Center for Neurocutaneous Disorders and the Rose F. Kennedy Center for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, as well as the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC), Montefiore Einstein continues to lead the nation and the world in these essential initiatives.

Our revolutionary “lifespan” concepts have also enabled us to advance our understanding and management of aging and neurodegenerative disorders and have given rise to our increasing understanding that aging may, in fact, start as early as conception, changing the view of neurodegenerative disorders as a new class of developmental disorders, with significant implications for diagnosis and treatment for currently untreatable disorders.

Our Department created the first program in the world that challenged and transformed the view that senility is a normal part of aging and led to an international biomedical movement to begin to study the scientific underpinnings of degenerative dementias as well as their distinction from the process of normal aging. This led to a congressional mandate to establish Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers and a new branch of the National Institute of Health called the National Institute on Aging.

Research carried out in departmental laboratories led to the paradigm-shifting discovery that aging likely starts at conception and that the forerunners of late-onset dementias had their origin at the early stages of life, and account for the fact that these disorders, in fact, are systemic disorders that need to be treated in an interdisciplinary way. These revolutionary discoveries have profound implications for the early treatment of these currently untreatable conditions using a range of stem cell, epigenetic reprogramming and dynamic tissue remodeling strategies, thereby offering hope for the development of true disease-modifying treatments and even disease cures.

Montefiore Einstein’s seven decades of nationally and internationally-defining biomedical innovations have re-envisioned the field of neurology into a modern scientific specialty. This modern field encompasses a unique spectrum of subspecialty areas in neurology, many of which we have pioneered and are now standards of practice worldwide.

The Headache Center

The Sleep-Wake Disorders & Chronobiology Center

Center for the Aging Brain

Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroimmunology Center 

Center for Autism & Communications Disorders

We’re not just keepers of the legacy for our own department but for the world of biomedical sciences.

Our world-renowned interdisciplinary clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic sub-specialists, physician-scientists, and scientists from the departments of Neuroscience, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neuro-radiology and Rehabilitation Medicine and a spectrum of basic science disciplines including genomics, stem cell biology, systems and computational/AI biology, bioengineering, developmental biology, biochemistry, and structural biology approach neuroscience through a wide and diverse lens of expertise and remain at the forefront of research, offering patients life-changing solutions to protect, preserve and restore neurological function and enhance brain resilience.

Our collaborative interdisciplinary research and discoveries of the nervous system has led to notable groundbreaking discoveries, some of which include that the peripheral nervous system gives rise to cancer and metastases, and the brain is the seat of longevity and the key player in regulating whole-body energy metabolism.

Advancing human health, scientific discovery and innovation through neurological research.

We utilize the most sophisticated neuroimaging, brain-mapping, deep-brain stimulation, biotechnology and systems biology techniques for early detection, intervention and groundbreaking treatments for the full spectrum of neurological diseases.

Our interdisciplinary team of nationally and internationally recognized specialists collaborates with neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, rehabilitation physicians, radiologists, and bench and other clinical neuroscientists to translate breakthrough research into highly personalized new treatment solutions.