Brandy R. Matthews, MD

The Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology is Brandy Matthews, MD.

Dr. Matthews is Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology and the Residency Training Program Director in the Department of Neurology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

Dr. Matthews earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Ball State University and her Medical Doctorate from the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Matthews trained in neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, earning the honors of Chief Resident and the Henry Woltman Award for Outstanding Resident in Clinical Neurology. She followed this with a Fellowship in Clinical Behavioral Neurology at the University of California San Francisco. Her area of expertise is in young-onset, atypical dementia and frontotemporal degeneration.

Dr. Matthews has a unique and much-appreciated creative gift. She incorporates her love of the arts into her lectures, engaging her audience with topics such as Shakespeare and neurology and the neurology of famous musicians and composers. She has written chapters on the musical brain, neurology at the opera, and Ravel's disease (primary progressive aphasia). She is very active in both the American Academy of Neurology and the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, serving on a great many committees, and as Course Director and Faculty at annual meetings.

We are grateful to Dr. Matthews and to all of the contributors to this issue of Seminars in Neurology for increasing our knowledge of the neurodegenerative dementias and for the work they are doing to understand and treat these disorders that rob a person not only of their memories and independence, but of their very essence.