Neurology

People who have strokes and other brain and blood vessel conditions (cerebrovascular diseases) benefit from being evaluated and treated by the doctors of the specialty group for cerebrovascular diseases and critical care. Your neurologist works with doctors trained in brain and nervous system surgery (neurosurgeons), cardiologists, and others to ensure you get exactly the care you need.

You may be seen in the Heart Brain Clinic, one of the first such advanced multidisciplinary clinics in the United States. At this clinic, you'll experience real-time collaborative consults by teams of subspecialists probing the heart-brain linkage driving stroke. The Heart Brain Clinic is available on Mayo's campuses in Florida and Minnesota.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota are each certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by a national organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and staff. This certification reflects the highest level of competence for treatment of serious stroke events. And the Mayo Clinic Health System sites in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Mankato, Minnesota, are certified as Primary Stroke Centers by The Joint Commission.

Conditions and treatments

• Amyloid angiopathy of the brain
• Antiphospholipid syndrome with neurological symptoms
• Arteritis (vasculitis) of brain or neck arteries
• Brain aneurysm (ruptured or unruptured)
• Brain AVM (arteriovenous malformation)
• Carotid artery disease
• Carotid bruit
• Carotid dissection
• Cavernous malformations
• Central nervous system arteritis
• Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarct and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL)
• Cerebral microbleeds by MRI
• Dural arteriovenous fistulas
• Genetic disorders of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
• Intracerebral hemorrhage of any cause
• Intracranial venous malformations
• Moyamoya disease
• Other brain arteritis or vasculitis syndromes
• Small vessel white matter disease
• Spinal arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
• Stroke
• Stroke prevention
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Takayasu's arteritis
• Transient ischemic attack (TIA)
• Vasculitis of central nervous system
• Venous (dural) sinus thrombosis
• Vertebral or basilar artery stenosis or occlusion

Research advances that improve clinical care

Our clinician-researchers and scientists are committed to advancing the understanding of brain and blood vessel conditions (cerebrovascular diseases) and developing new treatments. They conduct research and review medical histories to learn how diseases progress, how to treat them and which treatments may be most appropriate for people. Read more about research in stroke and vascular disease.

Nationally recognized expertise

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, rank among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2023-2024 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.