The M.I.N.D…

    The Malka Institute of Neuroscience and Disease  is the largest, most sophisticated, and diverse  medical specialty practice of its kind in the Tampa Bay Region serving  seven hospitals and three counties. Four friendly local offices strive  to accommodate patients of all ages, pediatric through geriatric, all  insurances and also the uninsured on a prompt professional basis.  

   The physicians of the M.I.N.D. are certified  by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  They have taught and  served at multiple universities, lectured and presented at national  scientific meetings, researched in pivotal clinical trials, and  published  book chapters, abstracts, and articles. They have served  on  various hospital and literature review panels, as expert witnesses and pharmaceutical  consultants, and have been featured on television, radio, and  newspaper. The physicians of the M.I.N.D. have received various  accolades: The USF Outstanding Clinical Attending Award, Who's Who,  National Board of Medical Examiners diplomat, record three years in a  row 100th percentile scoring in nationally administered examinations,  American Academy of Neurology Scholarship Award for Academy Proceedings,  and the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society.

The M.I.N.D. provides both conservative care  and state of the art care including neurosurgical assessments and second  opinons for patients of all ages with congenital and  toxic-metabolic disorders of the brain, spine, peripheral nerves and  muscles, encephalitis, meningitis, and other infectious neurological  illnesses, multiple sclerosis, neurological complications of auto-immune  diseases, head injuries, spine, pain management, attention deficit and  related disorders, psychiatric and counseling issues, disorders of  sleep, epilepsy, seizures, visual and other sensory impairments, stroke  and carotid disease, brain aneurysms and other vascular malformations of  the nervous system, brain and spinal cord tumors, dementia and other  cognitive and neurodegenerative processes, Parkinson’s and other  movement and balance disorders.  

Services offered by the M.I.N.D. include deep brain and vagal nerve stimulators,  and shunt programming, cognitive  and iq testing, epidurals, nerve blocks, trigger point injections,  Botox and other chemodenervation techniques, nerve conduction studies,  electromyography, electroencephalography, diagnostic and therapeutic  Ommaya, lumbar puncture, MRI, CT, EEG, carotid duplex,  transcranial doppler, evoked potential, and sleep study interpretation,  nerve and  muscle biopsy.