Charles S. Yanofsky, MD, FAAN

Neurologist

Staff neurologist with The Pinnacle Health System in Harrisburg, PA as of January 2008.

Address and Phone:

Charles S. Yanofsky, MD

Pinnacle Health Neurology

2025 Technology Parkway, Suite 201

Mechanicsburg, PA 17050

Tel: 717-791-2520

I have practiced neurology in the Central Pennsylvania area ever since completing my education and residency in New York in 1981. I headed a practice of 7 neurologists where I was also Chief of the neurology section at Pinnacle Health Systems, Harrisburg.  I held teaching, and hospital appointments in all of the local hospitals. I left Harrisburg  to be director of neurosciences at Susquehanna Health in 2004 which was a wonderful system  but now I have come back to practice in Harrisburg.  I love neurology and believe the brain and the nervous system is a thing of beauty to learn about.  I get interested in some things, but  I am not the type of person to settle forever in a little corner of my discipline. I'm privileged to work with patients and help them any way I can and learn at the same time.   Neurological principles have a wide applicability outside the field. I proselytize about Neurology with people in all walks of life.

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Practice:

Services include examination of management of persons with neurological diseases, physiological tests including EMG, NCV, Evoked Potentials, EEG. I enjoy standard 'bread and butter' problems as well as diagnostic and treatment challenges. I've practiced General Adult Neurology for over 26 years and have focused on such diagnoses as Multiple Sclerosis, Balance Disorders and Dizziness, Migraine. Alzheimer and Parkinson Disease. At this time, I am anticipating having primarily a hospital inpatient practice and office appointments will be extremely limited.     

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A neurologist is a physician specializing in diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the Central and Peripheral Nervous system and muscle. Here is a partial list of disorders treated by neurologists:

Alzheimer, and related Dementias, Autoimmune diseases of the nervous system and muscle, Nutritional deficiencies, Back and Neck pain,  Cancer Related neurological disease (neuro-oncology),Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and occupational disorders, Chronic Pain, Developmental Disorders incl cerebral palsy, Genetic diseases of the Nervous system,  Encephalitis, Epilepsy (Seizure Disorders), Headache and Migraine, Huntington's Disease, HIV Related neurological diseases, Guillian-Barre Syndrome and immune neuropathies,  Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy and diseases of Muscle,  Myasthenia gravis and neuromuscular junction disorders, Diabetic and other Neuropathy, Parkinson Disease and Related disorders, Polymyositis, sleep disorders, spinal cord disease, Strokes and Cerebro-vascular Disease, Tourette Syndrome, Tremors, Primary and metastatic tumors of the nervous system. The list is much longer.

Services include: Consultation and medical follow-up, Interpretation of neurological tests, evaluation, hospital admission and consultation, routine and emergency. Our office is equipped to do or order neurological tests.

I am Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the accrediting body for neurologists, also a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology a distinction conferred on a minority of Board Certified Neurologists. l have continuously renewed the Physician Recognition Award of the AMA for continuing education but go far beyond suggested requirements. My highest priority is empathic patient care.

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