Message from the Chairman

I believe that understanding brain function and dysfunction is the last major frontier for both Clinical Medicine and Neuroscience research. The brain is not only the control center for motor output and sensory input, but also serves as the organ for memory acquisition and storage, cognitive function and intelligence, language, emotion, and spiritualism. Advances in Neuroscience research have changed our specialty from a field based primarily in disease diagnosis to one equally invested in treatment.

The Department of Neurology at UTMB has an outstanding record for teaching clinical neurosciences, and is now committed to advancing our knowledge of neurologic disease - especially neurodegenerative disease - through both basic and translational research. Our primary clinical focus remains the understanding and treatment of chronic neurovascular, neurodegenerative, and neurometabolic diseases. But we have significant expertise also in epilepsy, sleep disorders, headache, movement disorders and neuromuscular medicine. We in the Department of Neurology are completely committed to Neurologic education, research, and the clinical care of our patients, and to keeping UTMB "First in Texas".

--Glenn Smith, MD, PhD