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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Neurosurgeons Operate on Newborn with Extreme Hydrocephalus, Macrocephaly
Neurosurgeons at All Children’s Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (Tampa, Fla.) recently achieved excellent physical and aesthetic results after surgery on an infant …
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Johns Hopkins Surgeons First to Implant Brain ‘Pacemaker’ for Alzheimer’s
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have surgically implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease — the first such operation in the U.S. The device provides deep brain stimulation and has …
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Pioneering Surgery Repairs Five-Year-Old Girl’s Spine with Leg Bone
A five-year old girl has had pioneering surgery to repair a large gap in her spine using bone taken from her legs. Before the operation, Rosie Davies, from Walsall in the West Midlands of the U.K., was “basically a time bomb,” her family said. Missing …
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Children’s Author Roald Dahl Led Invention of Device to Combat Hydrocephalus
In “Marvelous Medicine: the Untold Story of the Wade-Dahl-Till Valve,” which appears in the May issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, lead author Adam L. Sandler, MD, chronicles children's writer Roald Dahl’s extraordinary and largely …
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Friday, December 7, 2012
A Tale of Brain Tumors (Both Benign and Malignant), Love and a Dependable Neurosurgeon
It started 19 years ago, long before the couple met, when Heather, then 19, fell while mountain biking, suffering a concussion. She was treated at a community hospital and released, but had a seizure the next morning and was rushed back to the facility …
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Where Patients Live Contributes to Whether They Choose Elective Surgery
If you have a bad back and live in Lancaster, Pa., you are more than twice as likely to undergo elective back surgery than someone who lives in Syracuse, N.Y. A Syracusan with heart disease is half as likely to undergo balloon angioplasty to clear clogged …
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Gaming Platform Used to Compare Memory Impairments of Epileptic Rodents, Humans
Researchers recreated the Morris water maze (MWM) — a behavioral test used on rodents to study spatial learning and memory — using software developed to create custom video game environments as means of studying human behavior. By building a virtual …
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Research Reveals How Cancerous Tumors Spread to Other Body Parts
A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has discovered how cancer cells control the ON/OFF switch of a program used by developing embryos to effectively metastasize in vivo, breaking free …
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
New Study Details How Brain Injury from Concussions Progresses
The lasting impact that concussions can have on the brain is on the minds of anyone involved in football, from parents of the youngest Pop Warner players to those in the professional ranks. More and more NFL players are succumbing to symptoms of memory …
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Social Isolation Results in Nerve Cell Changes that May Lead to Mental Illness
Reduced production of myelin — a type of protective nerve fiber that is lost in diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS) — also may play a role in the development of mental illness, say researchers at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Mount …
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