Assistant Professor of Neurology

Medical Degree (2001)
University of Missouri School of Medicine

Medical Internship (2001-2002)
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Neurology Residency (2002-2005)
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Headache Fellowship (2005-2006)
Mayo Clinic

Dr. Schwedt specializes in the treatment and study of headache disorders, and plans to continue research in the following areas:  prospective analysis of new-onset headaches after coiling of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, botulinum toxin for migraine prophylaxis, predictors of the placebo response in patients with migraine, and pituitary hormones and the trigeminal autonomic cephalgias.

Selected Publications

Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW. Third gene identified for hereditary headache. Lancet Neurology 2005;4:519-520.

 Schwedt TJ, Rothner AD. "Benign" MRI Abnormalities in Children and Adolescents with Headache. Headache 2006;46:387-398.

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW. Thunderclap stroke: embolic cerebellar infarcts presenting as thunderclap headache. Headache 2006;46:520-522.

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW. PFO and migraine: bringing closure to the subject. Headache 2006;46: 663-671.

 Dodick DW, Schwedt TJ, Evers R. The headaches that awaken us. Headache 2006;46:678-681.

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW. Patent foramen ovale and migraine - where do we go from here? Review of selected abstracts and commentary. Headache Currents 2006;3:37-43.

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW, Trentman TL, Zimmerman RS. Occipital nerve stimulation for chronic cluster headache and hemicrania continua: pain relief and persistence of autonomic features. Cephalalgia (In Press ).

 Schwedt TJ, Matharu M, Dodick DW. Thunderclap Headache. Lancet Neurology (In Press).

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW. Headaches and their relationship to cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease. Continuum (In Press).

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW, Trentman TL, Zimmerman RS. Occipital nerve block analgesia may not predict outcome to occipital nerve stimulation. Cephalalgia (In Press).

 Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW, Caselli RJ. Giant cell arteritis. Current Pain and Headache Reports . (In Press).

 Calabrese LH, Schwedt TJ, Dodick DW, Singhal AB. Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndromes. Annals of Internal Medicine (In press).