- Departments and Centers
- Departments
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Clinical Centers
- Brain and Spine Tumor Center
- Center for Cognitive and Memory Disorders
- Center for Movement Disorders
- Center for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Center for Psychiatry and Behavioral Health (Cinical Care)
- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Ohio State Spine Care
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center
- Neuromuscular Disorders Center
- Nisonger Center
- Comprehensive Pain and Headache Center
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Research Centers
- Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair
- Center for Brain Health and Performance
- Spinal Cord Injury Resources, Rehabilitation and Research
- The Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury
- Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
- Nisonger Center
- Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
- Traumatic Brain Injury Network
Our Memory Disorders Research Center offers patients immediate access to the most promising treatments and diagnostics
The Center for Cognitive and Memory Disorders is committed to the highest quality of patient care and innovative research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and related memory disorders. As part of Ohio State’s Neurological Institute, we have access to a team of more than 170 faculty members who are on the leading edge of neurological care and research.
Our Memory Disorders Clinic has more than 2,500 patient-visits each year, and our Memory Disorders Research Center has conducted more than 100 dementia-related clinical trials in the last 20 years. Ohio State conducts more Alzheimer’s clinical trials than any other medical center in Ohio, offering patients immediate access to the most promising treatments and diagnostics, often well before they are available at other hospitals.
Under the direction of Douglas W. Scharre, MD, the Memory Disorders Research Center has been conducting clinical research studies since 1993 on conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal dementia.
Innovations developed at Ohio State’s Neurological Institute include widely used evaluation tools such as the Self-Administered Gerocognitive Examination (SAGE) to detect early signs of cognitive impairments, and the 4-Turn test to predict driving performance in individuals with mild dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, our team was the first in the nation to place a deep-brain stimulation implant in an Alzheimer’s disease patient. Ohio State is the only healthcare facility offering deep brain stimulation (DBS) in central Ohio. These accomplishments have positioned The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center as a state and national leader in Alzheimer's disease research.
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Our Team

Our Team
Our team at the Center for Cognitive and Memory Disorders is nationally recognized for our expertise in advancing the care of patient with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and other related memory disorders through scientific understanding of these diseases.