Dr. Darel Butler, MD

Dr. Darel A. Butler graduated Harvard University with a B.A. in biology, cum laude.

He then completed his medical degree and residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He contributed to the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine awarded to Dr. Stanley Prusiner for prions. He worked in the laboratory of Dr. François Gros in Paris on the discovery of mRNA, the main component of coronaviruses, under the supervision of Dr. Dominique Lazar. Dr. Butler has received numerous honors and accolades.

A general neurologist, Dr. Butler treats headaches, seizures and epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease and other thinking and memory problems, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis as well as problems with movement, weakness, numbness, pins and needles, tingling, neuropathy and blackouts.