Christian Johannes Amlang

Dr. Amlang is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Dr. Amlang is from Germany where he grew up in the beautiful city of Dresden. He went to medical school at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as well as at the Université Paris-Descartes and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. Fascinated by the field of movement disorders and the intersection between neurology and psychiatry in particular, he trained at various distinguished neurologic institutes around the globe including in Chicago, Dublin, Paris and Berlin.

After medical school, Dr. Amlang completed residency at Jacobi Medical Center and Yale New Haven Hospital before joining Columbia University as a movement disorders fellow to finish his training.

Dr. Amlang is a movement disorders specialist with a particular focus on functional movement disorder. He is collaborating with several medical professionals in the New York City area to establish a multidisciplinary clinic for functional movement disorder and functional neurologic disorder in general. His goal is to help create a space that is welcoming to and affirming of all individuals with functional neurologic disorder and to contribute to improving their quality of life.

He is also trained in administering botulinum toxin injections for certain movement disorders such as dystonia.

He is an avid reader and passionate traveler.

Education

• Medical School: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Internship: Jacobi Medical Center
• Residency: Yale School of Medicine
• Fellowship: Columbia University

Clinical Interests

• Functional movement disorder
• Ataxia
• Atypical types of Parkinsonism such as progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy and corticobasal degeneration
• Chorea including Huntington’s disease
• Dystonia including cervical dystonia and blepharospasm
• Hemifacial spasm
• Parkinson’s disease
• Tardive dyskinesias
• Tics
• Tremor including essential tremor

Research Interests

Functional Movement Disorder