James Lyle Bicksel, MD| Neurology, Memory And Cognitive Disorders Neurology | MedStar Health
Clinical areas of focus
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Aphasia
- Blurred Vision
- Cluster Headache
- Cognitive Impairment
- Concussion
- Confusion
- Dementia
- Depression
- Dizziness
- Encephalitis
- Facial Nerve Palsy And Paresis
- Facial Pain
- Headache
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Memory Disorders
- Migraine
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Neck Pain
- Nerve Block
- Neuralgia
- Neuropathy
- Numbness
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Prion Diseases
- Tension Headache
- Tingling
- Tremor
- Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abnormal Reflexes
- Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Anomia
- Anterograde Amnesia
- Aphasia
- Arm Weakness
- Arteriovenous Fistula
- Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
- Ataxia
- Autoimmune Encephalitis
- Behcet Syndrome
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Blurred Vision
- Carotid Stenosis
- Central Nervous System Lupus
- Cerebellar Ataxia
- Cerebellar Disease
- Cerebral Aneurysm
- Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
- Cervical Dystonia
- Cervical Plexopathy
- Charcot Marie Tooth Disease
- Cluster Headache
- CNS Vasculitis
- Cognitive Impairment
- Concussion
- Confusion
- Cranial Nerve Injury
- Dejerine Sottas Disease
- Dementia
- Depression
- Diabetic Lumbosacral Radiculoplexus Neuropathy
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Diplopia
- Dizziness
- Dural Arteriovenous Fistula
- Encephalitis
- Encephalopathies
- Epilepsy
- Facial Droop
- Facial Nerve Palsy And Paresis
- Facial Pain
- Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
- Femoral Neuropathy
- Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS)
- Headache
- HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorder
- HIV Myopathy
- Horner Syndrome
- Inclusion Body Myopathy
- Ischemic Stroke
- Lacunar Stroke
- Leg Weakness
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Lip Droop
- Lobar Atrophy Of Brain
- Medication Overuse Headache
- Memory Disorders
- Migraine
- Movement Diseases And Disorders
- Multifocal Motor Neuropathy
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Muscle Weakness
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Myelitis
- Myoclonic Epilepsy With Ragged Red Fibers
- Neck Pain
- Nerve Root Disorder
- Nervous System Disorders
- Neuralgia
- Neuromuscular Diseases
- Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO)
- Neuropathy
- Non Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysm
- Numbness
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Orthostatic Hypotension
- Paramyotonia Congenita
- Paraplegia
- Paresthesia
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Periodic Paralysis
- Peripheral Nerve Injury
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Periventricular Leukomalacia
- Plexopathy
- Positional Vertigo
- Primary Cerebellar Degeneration
- Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Prion Diseases
- Pseudotumor Cerebri
- Quadriplegia
- Radiculopathy
- Sensory Impairment
- Sensory Neuronopathy
- Small Fiber Neuropathy
- Spasticity
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia
- Spinocerebellar Degeneration
- Spinocerebellar Diseases
- Statin Myopathy
- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Syncope
- Tension Headache
- Tetraplegia
- Tic Disorders
- Tingling
- Tinnitus
- Torticollis
- Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA)
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tremor
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Unsteady Gait
- Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
- Vertigo
- Vision Loss
- Visual Impairment
Procedures I perform
- Alzheimer's Testing
- Angiography
- Avm Embolization
- Botox For Dystonia
- Botox For Hemifacial Spasm
- Botox For Migraines
- Botox For Spasticity
- Brain Injury Rehabilitation
- Epilepsy Monitoring Unit Evaluation (EMU)
- Headache Therapy
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Infusion Treatment
- Nerve Block
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CFBCBS EPO
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- FIRST HEALTH
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- First Health PPO
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Opoen HMO Option
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- United Student Resources
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- PPO and PPO Plus
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Open EPO Plus
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Open POS II
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Open HMO
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- CIGNA EPO
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: POS
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Choice Fund PPO
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Aetna HMO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- Tricare Prime
- Network OA
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurology
Fellowship Program: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (2004)
Residency Program: Emory University Hospital (2003)
Internship Program: Emory University Hospital (2000)
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia (1999)