Cognitive Disorders

Overview

At Cleveland Clinic Nevada, doctors from the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health provide expert diagnosis and treatment for individuals and families living with Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy Body dementia, frontotemporal and other dementias.

The center offers a continuum of care with no-cost opportunities for the community to participate in education, support and research, including disease prevention studies and clinical trials of promising new medications.

We specialize in collaborative care and are pleased to provide patients with a second opinion or ongoing disease management.

Cleveland Clinic Nevada has also been named an exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and selected to participate in national research consortia including ADNI, ALLFTD, DIAGNOSE CTE.

Patient services available at the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health include:

• Diagnostic evaluation and care.
• Memory testing and neuropsychological testing.
• Brain imaging.
• Physical, occupational and speech therapy.
• Infusion therapy.
• Clinical trials and investigator-led research.
• Patient and family support services and education.
• Referral to other specialty services throughout the Cleveland Clinic health system.

Train with us

• Participants in this UCNS accredited fellowship will graduate from the program well prepared to direct the care of adults with degenerative cognitive disorders.

Keep Memory Alive

An integrated entity, Keep Memory Alive raises funds exclusively in support of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health’s work in Las Vegas to find a cure for memory disorders.

• Learn more about Keep Memory Alive and how to participate.

What We Treat

Learn more about the cognitive conditions treated at Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health:

• Alzheimer’s disease.
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
• Cognitive decline.
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
• Dementia.
• Dementia with Lewy bodies.
• Frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
• Memory decline.
• Mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).
• Parkinson’s dementia.
• Primary progressive aphasia (PPA).

Our Approach

At the Lou Ruvo Center of Brain Health, we address brain disease through two important steps:

1. Accurate diagnosis.
2. Expert disease management.

Each component — diagnosis and ongoing disease management — requires unique neurological specialization. We have carefully composed our teams to give you the greatest access to the most relevant experts at each step in the continuum of your care.

Our doctors lead the diagnostic aspect of your care; our advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners, physician assistants) lead the disease management aspect of your care. Throughout the course of your care, all members of your neurology team are in ongoing communication within their team and with colleagues across multiple disciplines, collaborating to provide world class comprehensive care for patients, families and care partners.

• Watch our providers talking about the collaborative services in which they engage.

What to expect from us

At Cleveland Clinic Nevada, we strive to:

• Treat your conditions and keep your brain as healthy as possible.
• Provide a support system for you and your loved ones.
• Offer you and your loved one's opportunities to participate in clinical research.

Learn more in our Patient Guide, which was conceived by our patient and family advisory council.

Our Providers

Dylan Wint, MD

Director

Simrit Saraon, DNP

Certified Nurse Practitioner

Maileen Ulep-Reed, CNP

Nurse Practitioner

Research

Clinical trials

The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health’s clinical trials program is among the largest in the country for Alzheimer’s disease. We have conducted more than 100 trials in Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, MS, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, memory decline and normal cognition. Additionally, we offer investigator-led studies, including a study of repeated head trauma in active and retired professional fighters.

• Learn more about how to participate in a clinical trial.

Research for Alzheimer's Disease (NVeADRC)

In September 2020, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at The National Institutes of Health awarded Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health $3.3 million to establish The Nevada exploratory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NVeADRC).

We are among the first cohort of centers nationally to receive this exploratory award and hold the distinction as the first and only NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center in Nevada. The NVeADRC will help meet a great need here in our state as well as in the scientific community by focusing on disparities faced by individuals with dementia in rural settings.

• Learn more about the NVeADRC.

Care Partner Resources

Brain disease challenges families, who rise to the occasion by becoming care partners for their loved one. Patients rely heavily on their family caregivers, who often suffer tremendous stress, particularly when they lack knowledge and experience.

• Learn more about the caregiver resources we provide at Cleveland Clinic Nevada.

Appointments

Quality patient care is of utmost importance at Cleveland Clinic. Many of the treatment options offered by our center require multiple evaluations. Scheduling these appointments with the appropriate providers can be challenging to navigate. That is why our staff developed a comprehensive system that walks new patients through our care process from the initial phone call to the final evaluation.

Learn more about scheduling an appointment with Cleveland Clinic Nevada and accepted insurances.