About us

The Department of General Neurology covers on a wide spectrum of neurological diseases. As a primary care institution the University Hospital in Tübingen provides care for all patients with neurological symptoms or signs. These patients are admitted to the either the Dept. of General Neurology or the Dept. of Neurodegeneration, depending on capacity and patient load. Patients are referred to the Department from other areas of Germany as well as internationally according to the clinical and scientific focus areas of the Department, i.e., neurooncology, cerebrovascular diseases (ischemia, intracranial hemorrhage, vasculitis and others) and neuroimmunology (multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis and others). Specialized neurooncology and stroke (stroke unit and early rehabilitation) wards provide multidisciplinary expert care for these diseases. Specialized outpatient clinics including a neuroimmunology clinic, provide long term care for the respective patients. Other specialized outpatients clinics include epilepsy, headache and pain syndromes and sleep disorders. The aim of these outpatient clinics are not only to offer best and updated care for a selected patient populations but to provide an infrastructure for clinical studies that help in the development of novel therapies and disease mechanisms. Specialized wards and outpatient clinics of the Department of General Neurology therefore provide the clinical basis for its research groups. Research groups work in neurooncology, cerebrovascular diseases, rehabilitation and neuroplasticity, neuroimmunology and brainstem/cerebellar systems neurophysiology. These research groups are based in the immediate proximity to the clinical space either in the CRONA building of the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research. Close collaboration exists with the other departments and research groups at the Hertie Institute. The department cooperates closely with the physical therapy department at the University Hospital (Therapiezentrum). The Neurology section of this department is focused on physical therapy for back pain and stroke rehabilitation.

This Department of General Neurology offer different lecture series for medical students, physicians in training, nursing staff, and physical and speech therapists. The grand round series features internationally renown clinical and basic scientists speaking on clinically relevant topics. A neurovascular lunch conference and a general neurology therapy seminar covers recent topics in neurology, internal medicine, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, neuroradiology and other fields relevant to the treatment of patients with neurological diseases. The main neurology lecture, the neurology seminar, neuroexamination course and the intracranial pressure seminar are offered as part of the Medical School curriculum.