Rachelle Doody is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Doody is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Pseudobulbar Affect, and Memory Loss.

Rony Ninan is a Neurologist in Pearland, Texas. Dr. Ninan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Congenital Cardiovascular Shunt, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Hydrocephalus, and Memory Loss.

Tacara Soones is a primary care provider, practicing in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Soones is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Orthostatic Hypotension, Familial Hypertension, Hypertension, and Low Blood Pressure.

Courtney Preston is a Neurologist in Pearland, Texas. Dr. Preston has been practicing medicine for over 17 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Susac Syndrome, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, Dysarthria, and Stroke.

Shakeel Raza is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Pearland, Texas. Dr. Raza is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and Major Depression.

Louise Mccullough is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Mccullough is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Stroke, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Vascular Dementia, Thrombectomy, and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Dr. Mccullough is currently accepting new patients.

David Hunter is a Psychiatrist and a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Hunter is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Memory Loss, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), Cerebellar Degeneration, and Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Hunter is currently accepting new patients.

Sweta Majmundar is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Majmundar is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Cerebellar Degeneration, Lafora Disease, Unverricht-Lundborg Syndrome, and Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy. Dr. Majmundar is currently accepting new patients.

Nishith Majmundar is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Majmundar is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Cerebellar Degeneration, Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy with Auditory Features, Trigeminal Neuralgia, and Vasoconstriction. Dr. Majmundar is currently accepting new patients.

Mya Schiess is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Schiess is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Essential Tremor, Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Schiess is currently accepting new patients.

Jawad Sarwar is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Sarwar is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Gangrene, Enlarged Prostate (BPH), Childhood Iron Deficiency Anemia, Prostatectomy, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Sarwar is currently accepting new patients.

Recent advances have made the discovery of genetic susceptibility loci for complex human phenotypes a reality, including nervous system disorders. The critical next step will be to definitively identify the responsible genes and understand their functions in both health and disease. Our research integrates genetic investigation in human subjects and model organisms, with the goal of understanding brain function and aging, and improving the treatment of neurologic disease. We focus on Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, two incurable neurodegenerative disorders and experimental paradigms for the age-dependent failure of brain cognitive and motor control in humans. Human Genetics: The clinical manifestation of neurodegenerative disease is the culmination of a multi-tiered pathogenic cascade that evolves over decades; understanding how genetic variants impact this causal chain is essential. Although 2 percent of the population over age 65 are clinically diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the defining pathology of disease (alpha-synuclein Lewy bodies) is discovered in 20 percent of brains from population-based autopsy studies. We are, therefore, investigating the impact of genomic variation on directly measured Lewy pathology, neuronal loss in the midbrain substantia nigra, and progressive motor impairment, leveraging human subject cohorts with detailed clinical and pathological data. In complementary investigations, we are deploying biosensor devices to improve detection of Parkinson's-related motor impairment, including the development of quantitative biometric phenotypes for genetic analyses of disease subtypes. We are also performing whole exome sequencing of individuals with familial Parkinson's disease and related disorders, and exploring potential links between inherited pediatric lysosomal and late-onset, adult neurodegenerative diseases. Drosophila Genetics: Despite the promise of current human genetic methods, such as genome-wide association studies and next generation sequencing, they often fail to definitively identify disease susceptibility genes and variants. We are, therefore, taking advantage of the rapid and powerful genetics available in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in order to accelerate the validation of responsible genes and an understanding of their functions in the nervous system, including for disease pathogenesis. Expression of human amyloid-beta, Tau, or alpha-synuclein proteins in the fly nervous system recapitulates many core features of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease pathogenesis. We are testing candidate human susceptibility genes for functional genetic interactions in these fly models of neurodegeneration. Implicated molecular pathways are probed in greater depth, using both Drosophila and human genetic approaches. Current areas of interest include endolysosomal sorting, RNA metabolism/splicing, neuronal cell adhesion, and synaptic mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Dr. Shulman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia.

Salah Qureshi is a Psychiatrist in Pearland, Texas. Dr. Qureshi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Schizoaffective Disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Major Depression, and Bipolar Disorder (BPD). Dr. Qureshi is currently accepting new patients.

Bodo Brauer is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Brauer is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Nephrosclerosis, Renovascular Hypertension, Hypertensive Heart Disease, and Enlarged Liver.

Howard Laroche is a Neurologist and a Psychiatrist in Webster, Texas. Dr. Laroche is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Epilepsy, Memory Loss, Striatonigral Degeneration Infantile, and Cerebellar Degeneration. Dr. Laroche is currently accepting new patients.

Firoozeh Kar is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Webster, Texas. Dr. Kar is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Cellulitis, Muscle Atrophy, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), and Dementia. Dr. Kar is currently accepting new patients.

Caroline Mbogua is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Houston,, Texas. Dr. Mbogua is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. Her top areas of expertise are Dementia, Protein Deficiency, Muscle Atrophy, and Malnutrition.

Paul Schulz is a Psychiatrist and a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Schulz is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease (NIID), Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Schulz is currently accepting new patients.

Biju Oommen is a primary care provider, practicing in Geriatrics and Internal Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Oommen is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Dementia, Low Potassium Level, Gitelman Syndrome, and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young. Dr. Oommen is currently accepting new patients.

Tianxu Xia is a Psychiatrist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Xia is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. His top areas of expertise are Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Vascular Dementia, and Conversion Disorder.