Manizhe Eslami-Amirabadi, MD, is a sub-specialty trained Behavioral Neurologist in the UW Memory and Brain Wellness Center, where she diagnoses and treats people with neurodegenerative diseases (including behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasias, Parkinsonian syndromes, and Alzheimer’s disease), vascular cognitive impairment, and subjective cognitive/behavioral impairment.
Dr. Eslami-Amirabadi integrates evidence-based medicine with a patient-centered approach, ensuring that care is not only scientifically sound but also tailored to each individual’s needs and values. Her priority is patients’ well-being and dignity, while supporting the essential role of care partners and loved ones. She believes high-quality neurological care requires attention to medical outcomes, as well as quality of life, independence, and resilience.
As a faculty researcher affiliated with UW ADRC, she works on ethical aspects of dementia and functional cognitive disorder (the ethical challenges associated with diagnosis, prognosis, communication of research and paraclinical test results, and supported decision-making by individuals living with dementia). She also collaborates with the biomarker core on developing accessible and reliable biomarkers that enable early diagnosis, accurate patient stratification, and facilitate disease-modifying clinical trials, ultimately to improve care across the spectrum of TDP-43 proteinopathies throughout the lifespan.