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The Memory Disorders Program is an interdisciplinary team approach under the direction of a cognitive and behavioral neurologist, with clinical care provided by
a geriatric nurse practitioner, geriatric psychologist and a neuropsychiatrist. Neurology and psychiatry residents, post-doctoral fellows in behavioral neurology, geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine, and medical students are an integral part of the clinic team.
Areas of Expertise:
• Memory loss
• Age-related cognitive changes
• Mild cognitive impairment
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Vascular cognitive impairment and vascular dementia
• Frontotemporal dementias, including behavioral subtypes, primary progressive aphasia, Pick’s disease and semantic dementia
• Cortical and subcortical dementias, including Lewy body disease and corticobasal degeneration
• Metabolic and genetic types of dementias of adult onset • Mixed types of dementia and complex cognitive cases
At Ochsner’s Headache Disorders Program, we understand that headaches are disabling and negatively affect quality of life. The management of headache and neck pain begins with a comprehensive assessment of the patient as a whole including dietary habits, sleep habits and headache-associated symptoms. In addition
to formulating a proper diagnosis, we provide our patients with a strategic approach to treat their acute and chronic headaches. We work in collaboration with psychiatry, ophthalmology, neurosurgery, ENT, sleep clinic and physical (vestibular) therapy to provide the highest level of care.
Areas of Expertise:
• Headache
• Migraine
• Autonomic cephalgias
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Head and face pain
• Increased intracranial pressure • Dizziness and vertigo
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