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Monday, November 28, 2011
Study Reveals Benefits of Treating Patients Battling Severe Depression with Deep Brain Stimulation
A new study sponsored by St. Jude Medical, Inc. shows significant improvements in depression symptoms among patients who are highly treatment-resistant, according to the results of the first multi-center pilot study of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for …
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Friday, November 18, 2011
New Collaborative Spine Research Foundation Will Fund Spine-Care Research
Two flagship foundations for advancing spine care through support for research, the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (NREF) and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), have announced the formation of a collaborative grant …
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Research Shows New Means of Recording Brain Activity
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia recently developed and tested a new high-resolution, ultra-thin device that can record brain activity from the cortical surface without the use of penetrating electrodes. The device …
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Friday, November 11, 2011
EEG Machine Reveals Awareness in Some Vegetative Patients
Researchers at The Brain and Mind Institute at The University of Western Ontario in Canada, in collaboration with the University of Liege in Belgium, have discovered that they can detect conscious awareness in some patients thought to be in permanent …
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
New Thoracic Spine Surgery Technique Helps Avoid Operating on the Wrong Level
Although it does not happen often, nearly 50 percent of spine surgeons perform surgery on the wrong level of the spine at some point in their career. A variety of factors — such as obesity, osteoporosis and anatomical variations in the number of rib …
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Modern Football Helmets No Better Than Vintage Leatherheads at Protecting Against Subconcussive Impact
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and United Hospital Center in West Virginia were surprised by the results of impact tests they performed comparing 21st-century American football helmets to “leatherheads” …
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Study Finds Spine Surgery Patients Are Low in Vitamin D
In a study of 313 patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery, orthopaedic surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered that more than half the participants had inadequate levels of vitamin D. Additionally, one-fourth of …
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Public Briefing on Upcoming National Research Council Report: Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease
At the request of the Director's Office of National Institutes of Health, an ad hoc committee of the National Research Council explored the feasibility and need, and developed a potential framework, for creating a "new taxonomy" of human diseases based …
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Monday, October 31, 2011
UAB’s Division of Neurosurgery, Cancer Center Receive $2.3 Million to Research Brain-tumor Therapies
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $2.3 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant to University of Alabama-Birmingham's Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UAB Division of Neurosurgery, to be used over a three-year period …
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Updated AAN Guidelines Address Treatments for Essential Tremor
Updated guidelines from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) address how to best treat essential tremor, the most common type of tremor disorder, which often is confused with other movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. The guideline …
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