Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Neurology
Dr. Howard Kirshner, MD
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Howard Kirshner practices Neurology. He went to Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "Nashville Lifestyles Magazine", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Top MD". Doctor Howard Kirshner, MD is also a published physician. He has 83 publication published. The most recent publication is: Occipital pole area and language dominance. He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Intravenous Fibrinolytic Therapy in Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: A Patient-Level Meta-analysis.
- Complex decision-making in stroke: preoperative mechanical thrombectomy of septic embolus for emergency cardiac valve surgery.
- Hashimoto's Encephalopathy: A Brief Review.
- Closure of the patent foramen ovale: because we can, should we? And in whom?
- Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of Hashimoto's encephalopathy.
- Determination of mental competency, a neurological perspective.
- ACP Journal Club. Review: SSRIs somewhat improve dependence and disability after stroke.
- Discharge huddle outfitted with mobile technology improves efficiency of transitioning stroke patients into follow-up care.
- Frontotemporal Dementia and primary progressive aphasia, a review.
- Wagging the dog--moving closer to features defined by basic scientists, the protection of prodromal transient ischaemic attacks reveals itself.
- Manic psychosis following rapid withdrawal from baclofen.
- CD39 as a novel marker of in vivo immune activation.
- Cardiovascular outcomes in high risk patients with osteoarthritis treated with ibuprofen, naproxen or lumiracoxib.
- Intraorbital fractures. New concepts in diagnosis and surgical indications.
- Scanning patterns in aphasic patients during matching-to-sample tests.
- Linguistic exploration in time and space. Medicine-doctor-physician-surgeon.
- Chronic neuropsychological and neurological impairment following acute exposure to a solvent mixture of toluene and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK).
- Physical self-concept changes in a mildly, facially disfigured neurofibromatosis patient following communication skill training.
- Computed tomographic scanning for locating an emplaced plastic orbital plate.
- Hypokalemia and amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis.
- The neurology clerkship core curriculum.
- Behavioral neurology in the emergency room: language testing, Brain imaging, and acute stroke therapy.
- Improving Brain function with transcranial magnetic stimulation?
- Language studies in the third millennium.
- Occipital pole area and language dominance.
- Stroke rehabilitation, 1997.
- Medical revolution: the prevention and treatment of stroke, 1996. Part 2. Medical prevention of stroke and acute stroke therapy.
- Medical revolution: the prevention and treatment of stroke, 1996. Part 1. Stroke prevention and Carotid endarterectomy.
- Crossed aphasia. Functional Brain imaging with PET or SPECT.
- Syndromes of language dissolution in aging and dementia.
- Motor paralysis of the lower extremities following lumbar sympathetic block.
- Selective involvement of the auditory-verbal modality in an acquired communication disorder: benefit from sign language therapy.
- Word deafness in Wernicke''s aphasia.
- Cervical bruits in hemodialysis patients.
- Alexia and agraphia in Wernicke''s aphasia.
- Aphasia after right thalamic Hemorrhage.
- Successful chemotherapeutic treatment of epidural compression in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Transtentorial herniation with posterior cerebral Artery territory infarction. A new mechanism of the syndrome of alexia without agraphia.
- Word and letter reading and the mechanism of the third alexia.
- Phenytoin Toxicity when tablets substituted for capsules.
- Language disturbance. An initial symptom of cortical degenerations and Dementia.
- The naming disorder of Dementia.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of Multiple sclerosis: a study of pulse-technique efficacy.
- Brain extracellular potassium activity during hypoxia in the cat.
- The kinetics of extracellular potassium changes during hypoxia and anoxia in the cat Cerebral cortex.
- Changes in cortical subarachnoid fluid potassium concentrations during hypoxia.
- Aphasia and agraphia in lesions of the posterior internal capsule and putamen.
- Magnetic resonance imaging and other techniques in the diagnosis of Multiple sclerosis.
- Swallowing and speech production in Parkinson's Disease.
- The evaluation of Multiple sclerosis by magnetic resonance imaging.
- Anomia in cerebral Diseases.
- Progressive aphasia without Dementia: two cases with focal spongiform degeneration.
- Magnetic resonance imaging and CT scanning in neurobehavioral Syndromes. Comparative neuroradiologic findings.
- Subdural hematoma after normal CT.
- Causes of neurogenic dysphagia.
- Stroke center guidelines: a statement of the Working Group on Stroke Centers of the Stroke Belt Consortium.
- Prevention of secondary stroke and transient ischaemic attack with antiplatelet therapy: the role of the primary care physician [corrected].
- Medical management of intraCerebral haemorrhage: back to the basics.
- MRI asymmetries and language dominance.
- Anticardiolipin antibody and stroke in an HIV-positive patient.
- Aphasia secondary to partial status epilepticus of the basal temporal language area.
- Proximal muscle weakness in uremia. Case reports and review of the literature.
- Gestural impairment an gestural ability in aphasia: a review.
- Current issues in antiplatelet therapy for stroke prevention: the importance of stroke subtypes and differences between stroke and MI patients.
- A comparison of the blood pressure changes of lumiracoxib with those of ibuprofen and naproxen.
- Comparison of lumiracoxib with naproxen and ibuprofen in the Therapeutic Arthritis Research and Gastrointestinal Event Trial (TARGET), cardiovascular outcomes: randomi...
- Delirium: a focused review.
- Posterior cortical atrophy: a brief review.
- Long-term therapy to prevent stroke.
- The Terri Schiavo case: legal, ethical, and medical perspectives.
- Mild cognitive impairment: to treat or not to treat.
- Medical prevention of stroke, 2003.
- Therapeutic interventions for prevention of recurrent ischemic stroke.
- Vascular Dementia: a review of recent evidence for prevention and treatment.
- Differentiating ischemic stroke subtypes: risk factors and secondary prevention.
- Controversies in behavioral neurology: the use of atypical antipsychotic drugs to treat neurobehavioral symptoms in Dementia.
- Frontotemporal Dementia and primary progressive aphasia: an update.
- ADHD Drugs and Serious Cardiovascular Events in Children and Young Adults.
- Efficacy and safety of antidepressant drugs in patients with Dementia.
- Transient global amnesia: a brief review and update.
- ACP Journal Club. A biobehavioral intervention improved caregiver well-being and some measures of functioning in patients with Dementia.
- ACP Journal Club. Stenting and endarterectomy for Carotid artery stenosis did not differ for a composite of stroke, MI, or death.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Mass Gen Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- EEG (Electroencephalogram)
- Nerve Block, Somatic
- Non-Cosmetic Chemodenervation
- Vascular Transcatheter Embolization
Conditions Treated
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Ataxia
- Autonomic Disorders
- Bell's Palsy
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Doctors Specialties
- Vascular Neurology
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Nashville Lifestyles Magazine
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Top MD
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics -
Williamson Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1801994751 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KIRSHNER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | HOWARD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 372320001 | |
| NPPES Provider State | TN | |
| Specialty Description | Neurology | |
| Total Claim Count | 3219.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 4.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 178.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 5.53 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1801994751 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KIRSHNER |
| First Name Of The Provider | HOWARD |
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