Karin Mente, MD, MS
Karin Mente, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Staff Neurologist, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Specialty
- Movement Disorders
- Behavioral Neurology
Education and Training
- Fellowship: Movement Disorders, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
- Residency: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
- Internship: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
- Medical School: University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Board Certification
- Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, United College for Neurologic Subspecialties
Research Interests
- Neurodegenerative Diseases (Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer's disease, atypical parkinsonism)
- MRI
- Neuropathology
Biography
Karin Mente, MD is a movement disorders specialist and behavioral neurologist. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and a neurologist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her master's degree in cancer biology from the University of Toledo. She completed a neurology residency at Cleveland Clinic and a clinical and research fellowship in movement disorders at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Mente's research interests are at the crossroads of MRI and neuropathology in neurodegenerative disease. She is also a co-investigator in the Cleveland Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
Clinically, she has special expertise in ultrasound guided botulinum toxin injections for dystonia and spasticity. She also is experienced in deep brain stimulation programming and neurogenetics of movement disorders.