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| Alan
R. Jacobs, M.D. |
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| 120
East 56th Street, Suite 1040 |
| New
York, NY 10022 |
| Phone:
212-888-0002 |
| Fax:
212-888-1899 |
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| Email:
alanjacobsmd@verizon.net |
| Web:
www.neuroendocrinology.org |
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Dr.Jacobs
earned his B.A. and M.D. degrees from Duke
University in 1984 and 1989, respectively.
He completed a medical internship at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center
in 1990 and a neurology residency at The
New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center
in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he completed
fellowships in behavioral neurology and
neuroendocrinology at Beth
Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
From 1995 to 2001 he was at the Weill
Medical College of Cornell University
as Assistant Professor of Neurology and
Neuroscience, Assistant Director of the
Memory Disorders Program, and Director of
the Neuroendocrine Unit. Between June 2001
and July 2005 he has been Assistant Professor
of Neurology at SUNY/Downstate
Medical Center and a member of the
Alzheimer’s disease and Memory Disorders
Center at University
Hospital of Brooklyn. His training,
interests, and current practice include
general neurology and the subspecialties
of behavioral neurology and neuroendocrinology. |
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Dr.Jacobs
has extensive clinical and research experience
in all aspects of behavioral neurology.
This includes the dementias, such as Alzheimer’s
disease, Lewy Body disease, Pick’s
disease and vascular dementia, as well as
non-progressive cognitive and comportmental
disorders including traumatic brain injury,
temporal lobe epilepsy, attention deficit
disorder and many others. |
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Dr.Jacobs
also has a strong clinical and research
experience in psychoneuroendocrinology (how
hormones affect behavior). He has studied
the relationship between anxiety and late
onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia, catamenial
epilepsy (seizures occurring in phase with
the menstrual cycle) and premenstrual and
menopausal influences on mood and cognition.
He has diagnosed and cared for many patients
with these disorders along with disorders
involving the hypothalamus and the pituitary
gland. |
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is an accomplished lecturer and author on
these subjects. |
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