The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology created a visionary model of neurological care that enabled us to envision neurological diseases as lifespan disorders, forever changing the lens through which neurological diseases are understood. 

Childhood and early onset disorders necessitate different treatment modalities as the brain changes during adult life and aging. As medical breakthroughs have increased the median survival, our institution offers a destination site reflecting the aspiration that these patients can lead increasingly productive and fulfilling lives as they age. Research carried out in departmental laboratories has led to the paradigm-shifting discovery that aging likely starts at conception, and that the forerunners of late-onset dementias had their origin at the early stages of life, and account for the fact that these disorders in fact are systemic disorders that need to be treated in an interdisciplinary way. These revolutionary discoveries have profound implications for the early treatment of these currently untreatable conditions using a range of stem cell, epigenetic reprogramming and dynamic tissue remodeling strategies, thereby offering hope for the development of true disease-modifying treatments and even disease cures.