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Friday, December 9, 2011
Incidence of Headaches Following Traumatic Brain Injury Occur More Often in Adolescents and Girls
Every year, more than half a million U.S. children sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI). Adults who suffer TBI often report headaches afterward, but little has been reported about how often children suffer headaches following similar injuries. In “ …
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Recently FDA-Approved Device Closes Wide-Neck Aneurysms
Los Angeles independent travel consultant Stephanie Weiss was told there was no minimally invasive way to treat a wide-neck aneurysm — one of the defects of her having two large and three small aneurysms in her brain. She was told she would have to …
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Matthew C. Tate, MD, Named 2012 Van Wagenen Fellow
The 2012 William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship has been awarded to Matthew C. Tate, MD. Dr. Tate, a resident in neurological surgery at University of California in San Francisco, will commence the fellowship on July 1, 2012. He will travel to Montpellier …
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Neurosurgery Residents Say 80-Hour Work Week Isn’t Enough
Residents partaking in U.S. neurosurgery training programs strongly oppose new regulations that further limit their duty hours, according to a survey published in the December issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological …
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Research Shows How Gamma Knife Surgery Can Benefit Epilepsy Patients
Neurosurgeons continue to investigate minimally invasive surgery using gamma radiation (gamma knife surgery/GKS) to treat brain lesions that cause seizures and epilepsy. Studies of the procedure show it is an effective alternative to invasive microsurgery …
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Monday, December 5, 2011
New Neuroscience Clinical Trials Center To Aid Patients with Rare Neurological Diseases
Physician-scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, have received a grant to establish a clinical site for the Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical …
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Article Questions Existence or Location of ‘Pitch Center’ in the Brain
Pitch is the perceptual feature of sound that’s fundamental to human hearing, allowing one to hear musical melodies and harmonies as well as recognize inflections of speech. In the past, studies have suggested that a particular hotspot in the brain …
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Krembil Neuroscience Centre Opens First Neurovascular Unit in Canada
Canada’s first neurovascular unit (NVU) opened this week at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, which is part of the University Health Network. The 20 bed in-patient unit is designed to provide patients with stroke and neurovascular …
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Frequent ‘Heading’ in Soccer Increases Risk of Brain Injury and Cognitive Impairment
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, have found that repeatedly heading a soccer ball increases the risk for brain injury …
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Cedars-Sinai to Study Positive Role of Normal Protein in Ischemic Stroke
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Cedars-Sinai’s Department of Neurology a four-year, $1.4 million grant to study an unexpected recent discovery: After ischemic stroke — which is caused by a clogged artery, without bleeding into the brain …
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