ATTENTION CLINIC TO MOVEMENT DISORDERS AND DEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

The clinic of Movement Disorders and Neurodegenerative diseases is one of CIREN’s assistential and
Investigation units dedicated to the study and treatment of diseases on lesions of the nervous system (NS). These are characterized by alterations in motor control or by processes of a degenerative nature.

Its strategic objectives are to develop new therapeutic options to introduce and develop updated similar technologies for the obtainment of knowledge.

This issue optimizes therapeutic possibility for the attention of these alterations to impulse the development of specialized neurology in movement disorders and dementias.

This clinic is composed of teamwork specialized in: Neurology (2), Internal Medicine (l), Neuropsychology (l), Neurorehabilitation (4), specialists in motor rehabilitation, that is, 2 specialists in defectology and l specialist in speech therapy; 9 nurses (5 are registered ones). This Clinic also receives cooperation from specialists in other areas: 2 neuropsychologists, 1 neurosurgeon, 1 Neuropsychiatrist.

The present infrastructure includes 32 rooms (26 doubles) at the Neurovilla Area, 5 beds at the Investigation area and 1 bed at the Neurosurgery Service, for a total of 37 hospital beds under this Clinic’s responsibility.

The Assistential Service is organized within a general program of Neurologic Restoration and various Specialized sub-programs in diagnosis, assessment, prognosis and treatment of:

1. Parkinsonisms
2. Dystonias
3. Ataxias
4. Dementias
5. Tremor and other involuntary movements