Jacob Mandel, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Jacob Mandel 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. Mandel is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, and Brain Tumor.

Atul Maheshwari, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Atul Maheshwari 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. Maheshwari is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Epilepsy Juvenile Absence, Epilepsy, Absence Seizure, Seizures, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

I have dedicated my professional career to the care of patients with multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, and related demyelinating diseases. This includes clinical care, clinical research, community involvement and public education efforts. I am medical director of the Maxine Mesinger Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, a large multidisciplinary care center founded in 2003. Located in the Texas Medical center, we are recognized as a Partner in MS Care by the National MS Society. As director of clinical trials, I have served as principal investigator in over 30 clinical trials of MS therapeutics over the past 13 years. Dr. Hutton is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), Transverse Myelitis, and Alpers-Huttenlocher Syndrome.

Samden Lhatoo is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Lhatoo is highly rated in 14 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Epilepsy, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Seizures, Central Sleep Apnea, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Aziz Shaibani, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Aziz Shaibani specializes in Neurology (Brain and Spine) and works at Houston Neurocare P. A.. To make an appointment, please call (713) 795-0033. To review all accepted insurance carriers, please visit: https://www.stlukeshealth.org/patients-visitors/patients/billing-insurance/insurances-accepted. Dr. Shaibani is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Inclusion Body Myositis, Myasthenia Gravis, Myositis, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, and Thymectomy.

James Riviello is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Riviello is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Status Epilepticus, Seizures, Epilepsy, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.

Rohini Coorg is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Coorg is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, Tuberous Sclerosis, Seizures, and Cortical Dysplasia.

Zulfi Haneef is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Haneef is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Epilepsy, Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Absence Seizure, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

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 highly rated in 12 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, Tourette Syndrome, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Jennifer Chu is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Chu is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Cervical Myelopathy, Spinal Tumor, Hemangioblastoma, Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumors (DNET), and Deep Brain Stimulation.

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 highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Alica Goldman, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Alica Goldman 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. Goldman is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Epilepsy, Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, and Partial Seizure.

Dr. Vaishnav Krishnan is a board-certified physician-scientist, adult neurologist, and clinical neurophysiologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He holds appointments as an Associate Professor in Neurology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor, and as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Krishnan specializes in the treatment of epilepsy and related disorders, with a particular focus on patients affected by psychiatric comorbidities such as depression, anxiety, and autism.Dr. Krishnan’s journey in medicine began with his MD-PhD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2010. Following an internship in Internal Medicine, he completed his Adult Neurology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in 2014, and further clinical and postdoctoral fellowships specializing in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy there in 2016. He is a proud member of the Baylor College of Medicine’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and the Peter Kellaway Section of Clinical Neurophysiology. He is deeply committed to both direct patient care and advancing neurological understanding through research.As the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Epilepsy and Emotional Behavior, Dr. Krishnan's translational research program combines multimodal behavioral telemetry in mice with wearable technologies in patient volunteers. His work investigates how seizures, seizure risk, and anti-seizure treatments impact spontaneous behavior, aiming to develop new, quantifiable behavioral endpoints for epilepsy spectrum disorders. Beyond his extensive clinical practice and research, Dr. Krishnan is actively involved in medical education, formally participating in didactic teaching for medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, and overseeing courses on Epilepsy and EEG. He is board-certified in Adult Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Krishnan is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Seizures, Epilepsy, Myoclonic Epilepsy, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, 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 highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia.

Eli Mizrahi, MD, is dedicated to delivering high-quality, compassionate care to Houston and nearby communities. Eli Mizrahi specializes in Neurophysiology 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. Mizrahi is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Seizures, Absence Seizure, West Syndrome, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Tetsuo Ashizawa is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Ashizawa is highly rated in 32 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy, Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Joseph Jankovic is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Jankovic is highly rated in 30 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Benign Essential Blepharospasm, Movement Disorders, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, Torticollis, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Ericka Greene is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Greene is highly rated in 26 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Myasthenia Gravis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3, and Gastrostomy.

Shiao-pei Weathers is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Weathers is highly rated in 22 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, and Brain Tumor.

Vinay Puduvalli is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Puduvalli is highly rated in 21 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Glioma, Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, and Gliomatosis Cerebri.

Davut Pehlivan is a Pediatric Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Pehlivan is highly rated in 21 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, Congenital Contractures, Achalasia Microcephaly Syndrome, Microcephaly, and Craniectomy.

Barbara O'brien is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. O'brien is highly rated in 19 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Glioma, and Brain Tumor.

Monica Loghin is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Loghin is highly rated in 19 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Glioma, and Brain Tumor.

Rebecca Harrison is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Harrison is highly rated in 17 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Glioma, Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, and Brain Tumor.

Nishith Majmundar is a Neurologist in Houston, Texas. Dr. Majmundar is highly rated in 16 conditions, according to our data. 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.