
Under the leadership of the academic leader Professor BeishaTang, and with the joint efforts of Professor XinxiangYan, Professor HongJiang, Professor LuShen, and Associate Professor JifengGuo, the Department of Neurology, Subspecialty of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Genetic Diseases, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, is committed to the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative and genetic diseases, including senile dementia, motor neuron disease, hereditary ataxia, hereditary spastic paraplegia, peroneal muscular atrophy, hepatolenticular degeneration, dystonia, etc. We have founded several specialist clinics and wards, including Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders specialist clinics, Parkinson’s disease combined clinics, Cognitive dysfunction specialist clinics, Neurogenetic diseases specialist clinics, Motor neuron disease specialist clinics, with an average of 20,000 outpatient visits, 915 hospitalizations per year. Regarding scientific research platform construction, the subspecialty has led the construction of the Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases and the National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases (Xiangya), and launched the clinical and basic research of one major directions of the National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases (Xiangya)---"Geriatric Neurodegenerative Diseases Clinical and Research Directions", for Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, providing a good platform for clinical research and basic studies.
There are 19 permanent staff in this subspecialty, including 16 physicians (6 with senior titles, 5 with intermediate titles, 5 with junior titles),3 technicians. Among them, there are oneyoung and middle-aged expert. with outstanding contributions from the Ministry of Health, one Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor, two winners of the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program of the Ministry of Education, one "Tianshan Scholar" Chair Professor, fourwinners of the Outstanding Youth Fund of Hunan Natural Science Foundation, four"Chinese Outstanding Young Neurologists" by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association Names: one"Xiangya Famous Doctor" from Central South University, two"Sublimated Scholars" Distinguished Professors from Central South University, onewinner of "Sublimation Education Program" and one winner of "Sublimation Hunting Program". In 2011, the team led by Professor Tang Beisha was rated as one of the eight major institutions in China (including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) that "have made outstanding contributions to the research of neurodegenerative diseases" by the journal “Current Biology”.