The Neurology Deparment was created in 1972 and is part of the Clínic Institute of Neuroscience. The Neurology Deparment offers quality and efficient healthcare focused on people with neurological diseases. It also has teaching and research programs that make it a definitive healtcare resource at the national and international level.

The Neurology Department admits around 1,150 patients per year; it carries out more than 40,000 outpatient visits (between the outpatient clinic and primary neurological care); 8,000 day hospital sessions; 16,000 cognitive or physical intervention sessions for patients with neurodegenerative diseases; 10,500 functional tests (electromyogram (EMG), electroencephalogram (EEG), evoked potentials, polysomnographies, etc.); 125 complex video-electroencephalogram assessments; 110 functional surgeries for patients with epilepsy or movement disorders; and 1,800 hospital consultations.

The Neurology Deparment of the Hospital Clínic appears repeatedly in various rankings published by independent entities as one of the best Neurology deparment in Spain.

What are we dealing with?

These are the main healthcare issues that are treated in the Neurology Deparment.

Last year in numbers

Know the team

The Neurology Deparment is made up of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing quality healthcare. The team consists of 121 professionals from different specialties (neurologists, speech therapists, neuropsychologists, occupational therapists and residents); nursing staff, physiotherapists; social workers, functional testing technicians, nursing assistants, as well as administrative and healthcare assistants.

Xabier Urra Head of Service Neurologist

Assistive Devices

The Neurology Deparment's healthcare activity is carried out in the following departments:

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Testimonials

Stroke in the first person

Appointment of Quique, Patient
It's a complicated disease. You can take months ... years ... to recover, but you go ahead. It is important to lean on the medical team and the people around you. And over all, don't give up.

Headache in the first person

Appointment of Patrícia, Patient
I don’t hide that I have chronic migraine and that I suffer from it. I believe that one must try to take the stigma out of migraine and that it is seen as an illness.