University Hospital Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Joseph Claßen
Department of Neurology
Department of Neurology at University Hospital Leipzig provides care for patients with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems as well as muscle diseases. The main focuses of the department are the treatment of stroke, movement disorders, dementias, inflammatory diseases of the nervous system, muscle diseases and diseases of the myelin sheaths. The department works in cooperation with the Department of Neurosurgery, specialists of the University Hospital as well as nearby colleagues and hospitals. The department is certified by the German Society of Muscle Diseases due to its high success rate in the treatment of muscular disorders. The clinic is also composed of an intensive care unit, stroke special ward, epilepsy monitoring unit, general wards, a unit for neurological ultrasonography and another for clinical neurophysiology.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. med. Joseph Claßen, the department treats about 2,400 inpatients every year, more than 800 of which are stroke patients. The research unit of the department has priorities in their research projects such as motor function and plasticity, language and aphasia, stroke, neuroimmunology as well as myelin sheath diseases.
The Department of Neurology at University Hospital Leipzig is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Ataxia
• Multiple system atrophy
• Parkinson’s disease
• Epilepsy
• Dementia
• Multiple sclerosis
• Huntington’s disease
• Stroke
• Movement disorders
- Since 2009 Director of the Clinic and Policlinic of Neurology at the University of Leipzig
- Since 2009 Professorship, Chair of Neurology at the University of Leipzig
- 2006 Appointment as adjunct Professor at the University of Würzburg
- 2001 – 2009 Attending and head of research group (Laboratory for cortical physiology and motor function) at the Clinic and Policlinic of Neurology at the University of Würzburg (Director: Prof. Dr. K.V. Toyka)
- 2000 Habilitation at the University of Rostock
- 1997 – 2001 Attending at the Clinic and Policlinic of Neurology, Center for Neurology at the University of Rostock (Director: Prof. Dr. R. Benecke).
- 1995 – 1997 Scholar of the German Research Council – “Plasticity sensorimotor cortical functions” – at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (Clinical Director: Prof. Mark Hallett, MD)
- 1993 – 1994 Intern at the Psychiatric Teaching Hospital in Düsseldorf (Medical Director: Prof. Dr. W. Gaebel)
- 1989 Dissertation with Prof. Dr. B. Deuticke, Department of Physiology at the RWTH Aachen
- Topic: Influence of model peptide gramicidin D on the transversal mobility of lipids in the erythrocyte membrane – Studies under the application of a new lipid probe, palmitoylcarnitine
- 1988 – 1995 Scientific researcher and intern at the Clinic of Neurology of the Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf (Head: Prof. Dr. H.-J. Freund)
- 1982 – 1988 Beneficiary of the German National Academic Foundation
- 1988 State Examination in Medicine
- 1983 – 1984 Studies in Physics at the Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technical Institution, Aachen
- 1981 – 1988 Studies in Medicine at the Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technical Institution, Aachen
Department of Neurology
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