Dr. George F. Wittenberg

George Wittenberg, MD, PhD is a neurologist and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a professor of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of California School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Wittenberg’s clinical interests include stroke rehabilitation, rehabilitation robotics, brain mechanisms of arm control, and motor deficits after stroke. His research interests include using transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional imaging to understand motor cortical reorganization following stroke and designing and testing new methods for neurorehabilitation. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, the Neural Control of Movement Society, the International Society of Motor Control, the American Neurological Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. View the full list of Dr. Wittenberg’s publications on PubMed.                        https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Wittenberg%2C+GF.

Dr. Wittenberg is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Spasticity. His top areas of expertise are Stroke, Spasticity, Hemiplegia, and Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 68 peer reviewed articles and participating in 4 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Spasticity.