This page contains information for Neurology Residents who are doing a month-long rotation in Behavioral Neurology.

===Section Faculty===

  * [[http://ccn.upenn.edu/people/branch.html|H. Branch Coslett]], MD (section chief)
  * [[http://ccn.upenn.edu/~chatterjee/|Anjan Chatterjee]], MD
  * [[http://www.med.upenn.edu/grossmanlab/|Murray Grossman]], MD
  * [[https://cfn.upenn.edu/aguirre/|Geoffrey Aguirre]], MD, PhD
  * [[http://www.chop.edu/consumer/pat_care_fam_serv/staff_profile_page.jsp?sid=84212&id=84241|Sabrina Smith, MD, PhD]]
  * [[http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ADC/ourstaff-all.shtml#hamilton|Roy Hamilton]], MD
  * [[http://www.neurology.upmc.edu/faculty/wolk.html|David Wolk]], MD
  * Kathy Lawler, PHIL (Neuropsychologist)

===Outpatient clinic schedule===

  * Monday: Dr. Grossman, 2 Ravdin, 8 AM - noon
  * Tuesday:
    * Drs. Coslett, Chatterjee, Grossman, and Aguirre, 2 Ravdin, 8 AM - noon.
    * Drs. Coslett and Grossman, 2 Ravdin, noon - 4 PM.
    * Dr. Hamilton, 9 AM - 4 PM at the [[http://www.pennadc.org/|Penn Memory Center]] of the Ralston House.
    * Dr. Smith, Wood 6 CHOP, 8 AM - noon. The first and third Tuesdays of the month are a multidisciplinary neonatal and pediatric stroke clinic. The other clinics are general child neurology but good for seeing how to assess cognition in children of different ages. Dr. Smith is also happy to arrange pediatric cognitive neurology rounds at CHOP on request.

===Neuropsychological assessment===

Patients often undergo comprehensive neuropsychological testing as part of their evaluation. At HUP, Kathy Lawler directs the outpatient neuropsychology center, adjacent to the 2 Ravdin Clinic. Evaluations are performed daily from 8 or 9 AM until the early afternoon. Please call 215-662-3371 to arrange a visit. At CHOP, Nina Thomas conducts neuropsychological testing. A CHOP neuropsych case conference is held on Thursday afternoons at 4PM.

===Lab Meetings===

Several members of the section run regular lab meetings on topics related to cognitive neuroscience and neurology.

  * The Penn Memory Center weekly meeting takes place at the [[http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ADC/contact-officeinfo.shtml|Ralston House]] room 216 at 8:30 AM on Mondays. 
  * The Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (Drs. Coslett and Hamilton) meets at 2:30 on Mondays. 
  * Dr. Grossman's lab meeting is at 8:30 AM on Thursdays.  
  * Drs. Chatterjee, Smith, and Aguirre have a joint lab meeting at 2:30 PM on Thursdays. An [[http://calendar.yahoo.com/chattlabmtg|online calendar of topics]] is available.
  
  
  



===Ralston Center===

The Ralston House facility houses the [[http://www.pennadc.org/|Penn Memory Center]], a research center focused on Alzheimer's and other neuro-degenerative illnesses.

===Readings and resources===

Patients seen in the clinic typically undergo an office test of cognition:
  * [[http://www.chcr.brown.edu/MMSE.PDF|Folstein Mini-mental Status Examination (MMSE)]]
  * The [[https://cfn.upenn.edu/aguirre/papers/assets/PBAC_v2.05.pdf|Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC)]] and [[https://cfn.upenn.edu/aguirre/papers/assets/PBAC_Admin_and_Scoring.pdf|instructions for administration]]. (Original paper [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17971665|here]])

Some introductory readings relevant for Behavioral Neurology
  * A [[https://cfn.upenn.edu/aguirre/papers/assets/FTD_review_2002.pdf|review]] of Frontotemporal Disease (FTD)
  * item 2