Professor of Neurology, Emory University
Neurology
Dr. Mahlon R. Delong, MD
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Mahlon Delong practices Neurology. He researched medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Atlanta Magazine: Top Doctors", "Elected Member", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Super Doctor". Mahlon Delong is a published MD. He published 100 publications, including: 'Models of basal ganglia function and pathophysiology of movement disorders.' He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders of Basal Ganglia Origin: Restoring Function or Functionality?
- Basal Ganglia Circuits as Targets for Neuromodulation in Parkinson Disease.
- Primary motor cortex of the parkinsonian monkey: altered encoding of active movement.
- Proceedings of the Second Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: What's in the Pipeline.
- Temporal profile of improvement of tardive dystonia after globus pallidus deep Brain stimulation.
- Globus pallidus deep Brain stimulation for adult-onset axial dystonia.
- Scientific and ethical issues related to deep Brain stimulation for disorders of mood, behavior, and thought.
- An (18)F-FDG PET study of cervical muscle in parkinsonian anterocollis.
- Corticostriatal and mesocortical dopamine Systems: do species differences matter?
- The focal Dystonias: Current views and challenges for future research.
- The Dystonias: Past, present, and future.
- Deep Brain stimulation for movement and other neurologic disorders.
- 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Depletion Does Not Exacerbate MPTP-Induced Dopamine Neuron Damage in Mice.
- Clinical subtypes of anterocollis in parkinsonian Syndromes.
- Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics: New Developments and Challenges Since the Introduction of Levodopa.
- Deep-Brain Stimulation for Basal Ganglia Disorders.
- Intraoperative neurophysiology in DBS for Dystonia.
- Milestones in research on the pathophysiology of Parkinson's Disease.
- Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson Disease: an expert consensus and review of key issues.
- Somatotopic organization in the internal segment of the globus pallidus in Parkinson's Disease.
- Prevalence of vitamin d insufficiency in patients with Parkinson Disease and Alzheimer Disease.
- Inversion of dopamine responses in striatal medium spiny neurons and involuntary movements.
- Advanced therapies for movement disorders in neurotherapeutics.
- Circuits and circuit disorders of the basal ganglia.
- Deep Brain stimulation for neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Mood disorders in the medically ill: scientific review and recommendations.
- Rodent models for Dystonia research: characteristics, evaluation, and utility.
- Acute stimulation in the external segment of the globus pallidus improves parkinsonian motor signs.
- Prevalence, etiology, and treatment of depression in Parkinson's Disease.
- Transient manic behavior after pallidotomy.
- Pathophysiology of Parkinson's Disease: the MPTP primate model of the human disorder.
- Randomized trial of pallidotomy versus medical therapy for Parkinson's Disease.
- The functional anatomy of parkinsonian bradykinesia.
- Time to focus on the locus.
- Functional neuroanatomy of the basal ganglia in Parkinson's Disease.
- Beneficial effects of testosterone replacement for the nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson Disease.
- Not our knife: gamma knife surgery for Parkinson Disease.
- Refractory nonmotor symptoms in male patients with Parkinson Disease due to testosterone deficiency: a common unrecognized comorbidity.
- Effects of transient focal inactivation of the basal ganglia in parkinsonian primates.
- Brain mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease.
- Noncollateral projections of basal foreBrain neurons to frontal and parietal neocortex in primates.
- Transient impairment of recognition memory following ibotenic-acid lesions of the basal foreBrain in macaques.
- Single cell studies of the primate putamen. II. Relations to direction of movement and pattern of muscular activity.
- Nucleus basalis of Meynert neuronal activity during a delayed response task in monkey.
- Possible involvement of central pacemakers in clinical disorders of movement.
- Fiber pathways of basal foreBrain cholinergic neurons in monkeys.
- Globus Pallidus lesions in the monkey produced by kainic acid: histologic and behavioral effects.
- Functional and pathophysiological models of the basal ganglia: therapeutic implications.
- Activity of pallidal neurons during movement.
- Aberrant phosphorylation of neurofilaments accompanies transmitter-related changes in rat septal neurons following transection of the fimbria-fornix.
- Microstimulation of the primate neostriatum. I. Physiological properties of striatal microexcitable zones.
- The primate nucleus basalis of Meynert: neuronal activity related to a visuomotor tracking task.
- Parkinson's Disease.
- Alzheimer's Disease: a disorder of cortical cholinergic innervation.
- Relation of basal ganglia, cerebellum, and motor cortex units to ramp and ballistic limb movements.
- Activity of basal ganglia neurons during movement.
- Activity of identified wrist-related pallidal neurons during step and ramp wrist movements in the monkey.
- Microphysiological recordings at CT gantry site during stereotactic thalamotomy.
- Role of basal ganglia in limb movements.
- Alzheimer Disease: evidence for selective loss of cholinergic neurons in the nucleus basalis.
- Alzheimer's Disease and Down's syndrome.
- The contribution of basal ganglia to limb control.
- Magnetic resonance planned thalamotomy followed by X-ray/CT-guided thalamotomy.
- Microstimulation of the primate neostriatum. II. Somatotopic organization of striatal microexcitable zones and their relation to neuronal response properties.
- Topographic, non-collateralized basal foreBrain projections to amygdala, hippocampus, and anterior cingulate cortex in the rhesus monkey.
- Electrophysiological studies of the functions of the nucleus basalis in primates.
- Organization of striatopallidal, striatonigral, and nigrostriatal projections in the macaque.
- The neurophysiologic basis of abnormal movements in basal ganglia disorders.
- Functional organization of the basal ganglia: contributions of single-cell recording studies.
- Relations between movement and single cell Discharge in the substantia nigra of the behaving monkey.
- Neuronal activity in the basal ganglia of the behaving monkey: insights into function and pathophysiology of clinical disorders.
- A personal computer-based spike detector and sorter: implementation and evaluation.
- Parallel organization of functionally segregated circuits linking basal ganglia and cortex.
- Primary Dystonias: a review of the pathology and suggestions for new directions of study.
- Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits: parallel substrates for motor, oculomotor, "prefrontal" and "limbic" functions.
- Primate globus pallidus and subthalamic nucleus: functional organization.
- Cognitive impairments in advanced PD without Dementia.
- Tracing the Brain's circuitry with functional imaging.
- Surgery for Parkinson''s Disease.
- Pathophysiologic basis of surgery for Parkinson's Disease.
- Autism spectrum disorders following in utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs.
- Excitotoxic acid lesions of the primate subthalamic nucleus result in reduced pallidal neuronal activity during active holding.
- Excitotoxic acid lesions of the primate subthalamic nucleus result in transient dyskinesias of the contralateral limbs.
- Posteroventral pallidotomy for Parkinson's Disease.
- Comorbidity of depression with other medical Diseases in the elderly.
- The primate globus pallidus: neuronal activity related to direction of movement.
- Parkinsonian symptomatology. An anatomical and physiological analysis.
- Context-dependent responses of primate nucleus basalis neurons in a go/no-go task.
- Wilson's Disease. Development of neurological Disease after beginning penicillamine therapy.
- Relations between parameters of step-tracking movements and single cell Discharge in the globus pallidus and subthalamic nucleus of the behaving monkey.
- Primate models of movement disorders of basal ganglia origin.
- Oscillations in the basal ganglia.
- Models of basal ganglia function and pathophysiology of movement disorders.
- The primate subthalamic nucleus. II. Neuronal activity in the MPTP model of parkinsonism.
- Amelioration of sensory limb Discomfort of restless legs syndrome by pallidotomy.
- The primate subthalamic nucleus. I. Functional properties in intact animals.
- Reversal of experimental parkinsonism by lesions of the subthalamic nucleus.
- Synaptic innervation of neurones in the internal pallidal segment by the subthalamic nucleus and the external pallidum in monkeys.
- Basal ganglia pathophysiology. A critical review.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Boston City Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Conditions Treated
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Ataxia
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Cerebral Artery Thrombosis
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Atlanta Magazine: Top Doctors
- Elected Member
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Super Doctor
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
Boston University Medical Center -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Emory University Hospital -
Grady Memorial Hospital -
Wesley Woods Center of Emory University
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1144328451 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | DELONG | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | MAHLON | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 303220001 | |
| NPPES Provider State | GA | |
| Specialty Description | Neurology | |
| Total Claim Count | 2315.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1144328451 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | DELONG |
| First Name Of The Provider | MAHLON |
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