Dr. Cynthia L. Harden, MD

Expert Publications

• The co-morbidity of depression and epilepsy: epidemiology, etiology, and treatment.
• Menopause and bone density issues for women with epilepsy.
• Reaction to epilepsy in the workplace.
• Frequency of catamenial seizure exacerbation in women with localization-related epilepsy.
• What Valproate Does and Doesn't Do.
• Evidence that intractable temporal lobe epilepsy is influenced by genetic and environmentally acquired factors.
• Sex, drugs, and epilepsy.
• Polycystic ovaries and polycystic ovary syndrome in epilepsy: evidence for neurogonadal disease.
• Sexuality in women with epilepsy.
• Do the results of pregnancy registries contradict one another?
• Sexuality in men and women with epilepsy.
• Optimizing therapy of seizures in women who use oral contraceptives.
• New evidence supports cognitive decline in temporal lobe epilepsy.
• Pregnancy and epilepsy.
• The current state of postmenopausal hormone therapy: update for neurologists and epileptologists.

Media Releases

Get to know Neurologist Dr. Cynthia L. Harden, who serves patients in New York, New York.

A compassionate and considerate neurologist, Dr. Harden is affiliated with MedicalArts Clinic, serving the community of Lower East Side, New York. She gives each patient her focused attention, and she prides herself on delivering the best treatment available. She is dedicated to helping patients receive the treatment they need so they can enjoy a positive and fulfilling lifestyle.

MedicalArts Clinic offers comprehensive medical care by top New York City board-certified specialists, state-of-the-art diagnostics at convenient locations with extended early/late hours and weekends

Before embarking on her professional journey, Dr. Harden earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin. She completed her residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, and her residency in neurology at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Finally, she completed her fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

Dedicated to clinical excellence, the doctor is board-certified in neurology, clinical neurophysiology, and epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). The ABPN is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to serving the professions of psychiatry and neurology.

In April 2016, Dr. Harden became a Chair of the Epilepsy Section of the American Academy of Neurology. Until recently, she was the Director of Epilepsy Services for the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.

Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Neurologists are licensed medical specialists who diagnose and treat disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles of patients. They examine a patient’s mental and physical status, conduct medical tests and scans, and evaluate the results to diagnose and treat the patient.

Cited in New York Magazine as a Top Doctor and as one of the Top Five Epilepsy Doctors in the United States in 2014, Dr. Harden has been the recipient of the Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2016, 2015, 2014), On-Time Doctor Award (2016), and Patients’ Choice Award (2015).

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