Highlights

  • Losing a loved one with dementia, brain injury, or neurological disease can be a difficult experience and can leave you and your family with unanswered questions.  An autopsy can help to answer those questions.  Many if not most dementias cannot be diagnosed with certainty without a tissue diagnosis.

  • The Division of Neuropathology has five full-time clinical neuropathologists on staff who are available for consultation on biopsies and autopsies as well as a neurologist with specialty training in muscle and nerve biopsy diagnosis.  We are also able to offer real time neuropathological expertise over Telepathology.

  • The Division of Neuropathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Pathology holds conferences on a wide range of topics including Neuropathology for Neurologists, Neuropathology Muscle Conference, and many more

  • View faculty and staff in the division of neuropathology

  • There are a variety of opportunities for training in neuropathology.

  • Research opportunities are available from doctors in the neuropathology field

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    Neurodegenerative Brain Bank

    Losing a loved one with dementia, brain injury, or neurological disease can be a difficult experience and can leave you and your family with unanswered questions.  An autopsy

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    Consultation Services

    The Division of Neuropathology has five full-time clinical neuropathologists on staff who are available for consultation on biopsies and autopsies as well as a neurologist with

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    Conferences

    The Division of Neuropathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Pathology holds conferences on a wide range of topics including Neuropathology

  • neuropathology staff members

    People

    View faculty and staff in the division of neuropathology

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    Training

    There are a variety of opportunities for training in neuropathology.

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    Research

    Research opportunities are available from doctors in the neuropathology field