Mya Schiess is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Schiess is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. 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.

Erin Furr-Stimming is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Furr-Stimming is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Huntington Disease, Movement Disorders, Chorea, Parkinson's Disease, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Furr-Stimming is currently accepting new patients.

Joseph Jankovic is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Jankovic is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Benign Essential Blepharospasm, Movement Disorders, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, Torticollis, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Jankovic is currently accepting new patients.

Nora Vanegas-Arroyave is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Vanegas-Arroyave is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Supranuclear Ophthalmoplegia, REM Behavior Disorder, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Vanegas-Arroyave is currently accepting new patients.

Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon in Houston, Texas. After completing his bachelor’s degree in Physics and Astronomy at Harvard University, Dr. Sheth earned both his medical degree and PhD from the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Sheth then completed his residency and Fellowship in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. As a clinician, Dr. Sheth treats patients with disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He uses a combination of time-tested techniques and new minimally invasive approaches, including deep brain stimulation (DBS), laser therapy, robot-guided surgery, radiosurgery, and other neurosurgical procedures. As a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, he develops novel therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders and studies the neurophysiological basis of how the human brain makes complex decisions. Recently, Dr. Sheth and his collaborators received an $8.5 million NIH grant to better understand the neurocircuitry of depression. Their study will look at possible causes for treatment-resistant depression and how physicians could use deep brain stimulation to treat this devastating illness. Conditions treated include Deep Brain stimulation for movement disorders and Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy. Dr. Sheth is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Thalamotomy.

Arjun Tarakad, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Arjun Tarakad specializes in Neurology (Brain and Spine) and works at BCM Neurology. To make an appointment, please call (713) 798-2273. To review all accepted insurance carriers, please visit: https://www.stlukeshealth.org/patients-visitors/patients/billing-insurance/insurances-accepted. Dr. Tarakad is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, Tourette Syndrome, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Dr. Viswanathan is fellowship trained in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, and his clinical practice focuses on deep brain stimulation, trigeminal neuralgia, cancer pain, and chronic pain. Conditions treated include Deep Brain Stimulation for movement disorders, Neurosurgery for pain, and stereotactic surgery. Dr. Viswanathan is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Cordotomy, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

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 Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia.

Steven Bellows, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Steven Bellows specializes in Neurology (Brain and Spine) and works at Baylor McNair - Neurology. To make an appointment, please call (713) 798-6177. To review all accepted insurance carriers, please visit: https://www.stlukeshealth.org/patients-visitors/patients/billing-insurance/insurances-accepted. Dr. Bellows is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Shivika Chandra is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Chandra is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, PHACE Syndrome, Aplasia Cutis Congenita, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Chandra is currently accepting new patients.

Swati Pradeep is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Pradeep is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, and Restless Legs Syndrome. Dr. Pradeep is currently accepting new patients.

Monte Orahood, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Pasadena and nearby communities. Monte Orahood specializes in Internal Medicine and works at Premier Health Care Group. To make an appointment, please call (281) 487-1500. To review all accepted insurance carriers, please visit: https://www.stlukeshealth.org/patients-visitors/patients/billing-insurance/insurances-accepted. Dr. Orahood is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Hypertensive Heart Disease, Bronchitis, Enlarged Liver, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Prostatectomy.

Dhanya Vijayakumar is a Neurologist in Webster, Texas. Dr. Vijayakumar is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and Supranuclear Ocular Palsy. Dr. Vijayakumar is currently accepting new patients.

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 Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Susac Syndrome, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, Dysarthria, and Stroke.

Eberenne Igbokwe is a primary care provider, practicing in Geriatrics in Pearland, Texas. Dr. Igbokwe is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Dementia, Cellulitis, Peptic Ulcer, and Necrosis.

Nishith Majmundar is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Majmundar is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. 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.

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

Melissa Christie is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Christie has been practicing medicine for over 10 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. Her top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Migraine, and Essential Tremor. Dr. Christie 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 Movement Disorders. 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.

Sean Savitz is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Savitz is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Movement Disorders. His top areas of expertise are Stroke, Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), Delirium, Thrombectomy, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Savitz is currently accepting new patients.