Patient Care

Our mission is to help patients and their families by developing therapies for rare and common neurodegenerative diseases. Our members provide clinical care throughout the Northwestern Medicine health system, including at clinics dedicated to the following diseases. Find physicians and services for specific conditions at the links below.

• Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Disorders
  These neurological disorders affect learning, behavior and memory.
• Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders
  These neurological illnesses are characterized by the loss of voluntary movement and by abnormal involuntary movements.
  • Huntington’s Disease
    Huntington’s disease is a rare hereditary disorder that causes chorea, or involuntary wriggling movements, and psychiatric and cognitive symptoms.
  • Parkinson’s Disease
    Parkinson’s disease is a common and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that causes slowness of movement, rigidity and/or tremor.
  • Wilson Disease
    This rare genetic disorder can result in neurologic, psychiatric, hepatic (affecting the liver) and ophthalmologic (affecting the eye) symptoms, which require a multi-disciplinary approach to care.
• Epilepsy
  Epilepsy and seizure disorders are caused by disruptive electrical activity in the brain.
• Neuromuscular Medicine
  These neurological disorders affect the peripheral nerves, the neuromuscular junction and muscle.
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's Disease
    ALS is a progressive neurological disorder that affects motor cells in the spinal cord and brain.