Conditions and Treatments
At UTHealth Houston Neurosciences, our care provider team has specialized training in many areas of neurology, neurosurgery, spine surgery, pain management, radiation oncology, neurocritical care, neuro-ophthalmology and sleep medicine. Read about different conditions and treatments in the lists below, grouped by condition type:
Brain Tumors
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)
- Glioma
- Hemangioblastoma
- Malignant meningioma
- Medulloblastoma
- Meningioma
- Oligodendroglioma
- Pineal Gland Tumors
- Pituitary adenoma and Cushing’s syndrome
- Pituitary tumor
- Skull base tumor
- Schwannoma
Cerebrovascular and Stroke
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
- Atherosclerosis and carotid and vertebral artery stenosis
- Brain Aneurysm
- Cavernous angioma
- Cavernous malformations
- Cerebral embolism
- Cerebral hemorrhage
- Cerebral thrombosis
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
- Coagulation (blood clotting) disorders
- Dissection of carotid and vertebral artery
- Hemorrhagic Stroke
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Moyamoya
- Patent Foramen Ovale
- Stroke
- Stroke Treatment and Recovery
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Transient ischemic attack (TIA) or mini stroke
- Vascular dementia
- Vasculitis
- Women and Stroke
Epilepsy and Seizures
Headaches and Pain Disorders
Memory Disorders
Movement Disorders
- Ataxias/cerebellar disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Dystonia
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Essential tremor/tremor states
- Gait and Balance Disorders
- Generalized and focal dystonias
- Generalized and partial seizures
- Huntington’s Disease
- Huntington’s chorea
- Parkinson’s disease
- Spasticity
- Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA)
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Tourette Syndrome
- Wilson’s disease
Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Antisynthetase Syndrome
- Neuromyelitis Optica
- Transverse Myelitis
- Optic neuritis
- Antibody-mediated autoimmune encephalitis
- Leukodystrophies
- Vasculitis
- Infusions
Nerve Disorders
- Neuromyotonia
- Neurosarcoidosis
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Peripheral Nerve Disorders
Neuro-Oncology
Neuro-Ophthalmology
- Adult Strabismus
- Blepharospasm
- Cranial Nerve Palsies
- Double Vision and Eye Movement Abnormalities
- Entropion and Ectropion Repair
- Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Nystagmus
- Optic Nerve Edema
- Optic Nerve Sheath Meningioma
- Optic Neuritis
- Orbital Decompression for Thyroid Eye Disease
- Orbital biopsies & Tumor excision
- Orbital Tumors
- Orbital Trauma
- Paralytic Lagophthalmos Repair
- Pseudotumor Cerebri
- Ptosis and Blepharoplasties
- Pupillary Disturbances
- Thyroid Eye Disease
Neurocritical Care
- Severe Concussion
- Stroke
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Traumatic Spine Injury
Neuromuscular Disorders
- Acute, subacute and chronic peripheral polyneuropathies
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Focal entrapment neuropathies
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome
- Infusions (chemotherapy)
- Isaac’s syndrome
- Metabolic myopathies
- Mitochondrial myopathies
- Muscle and Nerve Laboratory
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myositis
- Myotonia
- Plexopathies
- Primary lateral sclerosis
Neuropsychology
Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery
Pediatric Movement Disorder Center
- Arachnoid Cysts
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
- Brain Tumor
- Pediatric Cavernous Malformation
- Cerebral Palsy and Spasticity
- Chiari I Malformation
- Concussion
- Craniosynostosis
- Dysautonomia Rehabilitation
- Emergency Neurological Care
- Ependymoma
- Epilepsy
- Hydrocephalus
- Medulloblastoma
- Mitochondrial Disease
- Moyamoya Disease
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Post Natal Meningomyelocele
- Pseudotumor Cerebri
- Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy
- Spine Tumors
- Tethered Spinal Cord
Radiation Oncology
Skull Base Program
- Craniopharyngiomas
- Chordomas and chondrosarcomas
- Epidermoid cysts
- Meningiomas
- Metastatic tumors
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Olfactory neuroblastoma
- Orbital tumors
- Paragangliomas
- Pituitary adenomas
- Rathke’s cleft cysts
- Vestibular schwannomas (acoustic neuromas) and other cranial nerve schwannomas
- Basilar invagination
- Bowhunter syndrome
- CSF leaks (spontaneous or traumatic, with or without pseudotumor cerebri)
- Cranial neuralgias (trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, and occipital)
- Eagle syndrome
- Encephaloceles
- Hemifacial spasm
- Inflammatory and infectious skull base processes (e.g., osteomyelitis)
- Meningoceles
- Skull base fractures
Sleep Medicine and Neurological Sleep Disorders
Spine Disease and Back Pain
- Arthrodesis
- Artificial Disc Replacement
- Cauda Equina Syndrome
- Cervical corpectomy
- Cervical disc disease
- Cervical discectomy and fusion
- Cervical herniated disc
- Cervical laminectomy
- Cervical laminoforaminotomy
- Cervical radiculopathy
- Cervical spondylosis (degeneration)
- Cervical stenosis
- Cervical spinal cord injury
- Degenerative Disc Disease
- Foraminectomy
- Foraminotomy
- Herniated discs
- Injections for Pain
- Kyphoplasty
- Laminoplasty
- Lumbar herniated disc
- Lumbar laminectomy
- Lumbar laminotomy
- Lumbar radiculopathy
- Lumbar spondylolisthesis
- Lumbar spondylosis (degeneration)
- Lumbar stenosis
- Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Artificial Disc Replacement
- Minimally Invasive Discectomy
- Minimally Invasive Foraminotomy
- Minimally Invasive Kyphoplasty
- Minimally Invasive Laminotomy
- Minimally Invasive Spinal Decompression
- Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion
- Minimally Invasive Vertebroplasty
- Neck Pain
- Peripheral Nerve Disorders
- Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Sciatica
- Scoliosis
- Spinal cord syrinxes
- Spinal deformities
- Spinal injuries
- Spinal fractures and instability
- Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial and Implantation
- Spinal Fusion
- Spinal Radiosurgery
- Spine and spinal cord tumors
- Spondylolisthesis
- Stenosis
- Tethered spinal cord
- Thoracic herniated disc
- Thoracic spinal cord injury
- Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
- Vertebral Nerve Ablation
- Vertebroplasty
Tests and Treatments
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Diagnostic Neuroimaging
- EEG Studies
- EMG Test
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
- Home Sleep Testing
- Infusion Therapies
- MEG Test
- Mobile Stroke Unit
- MRI
- Neuropsychological Evaluations
- PET Scan
Tumors
Contact Us
At UTHealth Houston Neurosciences, we offer patients access to specialized neurological care at clinics across the greater Houston area. To ask us a question, schedule an appointment, or learn more about us, please call (713) 486-8000, or click below to send us a message. In the event of an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest Emergency Room.