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Mahlon DeLong, M.D.
The Emory Clinic
Professor of Neurology


Specialties
Neurology (Board certified since 1980)

Area of Clinical Interest
Parkinson's disease
cerebral palsy
dystonia
movement disorders
pallidotomy


Hospital Affiliation(s)
Emory University Hospital
Grady Memorial Hospital
Wesley Woods Geriatric Hospital

Additional spoken language(s)
 Russian
 German

Addresses Locations

The Emory Clinic 'A'
1365 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta , GA 30322 Map to the office
(404) 778-3444

Wesley Woods Health Center
1841 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta , GA 30329 Map to the office



Year started practicing at Emory
1990

Education
Medical School
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1966

Internship
Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA 1968

Residency
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 1976

Fellowship
National Insitute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 1971

Organizational Leadership Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Neurological Association

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Society for Neuroscience/Government & Public Affairs



Awards
American Top Doctors
Distinguished Leadership Award
Huntington's Disease Society of American, 1998

Distinguished Lecturer
Northwestern University Neuroscience

Edward B. Henderson Lecture Award
American Geriatrics Society, 2001

Fred Springer Award
American Parkinson's Disease Foundation

Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars
1998

Schneider Lecture
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1999

Special Lecture
Society for Neuroscience, 2000

The Arnold Carmichael Lecturer
Queens Square London

William Patterson Timmie
Chair of Neurology 1993

Major or Recent Publications
Motor Subcircuits Mediating the Control of Movement Velocity: A PET Study . Journal of Neurophysiology (1998),2162-78; vol 80(4).

Neuronal Activity in the Basal Ganglia in Patients with Generalized Dystonia and Hemiballimus . Annals of Neurology (1999),22-35; vol 46(1).

Reversal of Experimental Parkinsonism by Lesions of the Subthalamic Nucleus . Science (1990),1436-38; vol 249.