Peptide promotes new growth in injured spinal cords
...Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, said the study confirms which molecules block axon regeneration in the spinal cord and shows that a peptide can promote new growth. Axons are the telephone lines of the nervous system and carry a nerve imp...New, non-invasive surgical procedure to eliminate epileptic seizures
...ys Vincenta Salanova, M.D., associate professor of neurology and co-director of the program. "More than 500 patients have been evaluated in the clinic and, of those, 300 have qualified for surgery. As many as 90 percent of these patients became seizure free or had rare seizures, with significant improvement in...Cord blood cells improve rats' neurological recovery from brain injury, new study finds
...n Sanchez-Ramos, PhD, MD, Helen Ellis professor of neurology and director of stem cell research at the USF Center for Aging and Brain Repair. "It appears that the trophic factors and cytokines from cord blood help promote the brain's self-generated repair of damaged tissue." "These findings were consistent wi...Scientists identify brain mechanism that boosts response to alcohol
..., UCSF; and Adrienne S. Gordon, PhD., professor of neurology and cellular and molecular pharmacology, EGCRC, UCSF....Botox proving successful at preventing headaches
... headache," says Troost, professor and chairman of neurology at Wake Forest, who has treated more than 350 patients with Botox. "When it is effective, the need for daily medications or acute medicines for severe attacks is significantly reduced or eliminated." Botox, a purified form of the toxin that causes bo...Aspirin within two days of ischemic stroke reduces deaths
...ays Coull, professor and head of the department of neurology and professor of medicine, University of Arizona, Arizona Health Science Center in Tucson. "Despite decades of use and physiologic reasons for its use, there were surprisingly few randomized trials that addressed the effects of using heparin and oth...Stroke patients with high blood sugar at higher risk of death
...r, Linda S. Williams, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at the IU School of Medicine, analyzed the electronic medical records of 656 stroke patients hospitalized over a five-year period. Over 40 percent of these stroke patents had high blood sugar levels. Although most had previous diagnoses of diabetes...High-volume hospitals equal higher survival rates for bleeding strokes
...orne Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology and epidemiology. Studies have shown better survival rates at higher-volume facilities for patients with other complex medical needs, including coronary artery bypass surgery, carotid endarterectomy and HIV. Policies discouraging coronary bypass pr...Clear outlook: Study finds no link between weather and stroke
...al. Connor, a stroke researcher and member of the neurology division at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, says he has a number of criticisms of the Calgary study. "Not only is it retrospective and therefore open to inaccuracies in stroke diagnosis and case ascertainment, but......ormonal disorders; 32nd for orthopaedics; 40th for neurology and neurosurgery; 45th for heart and heart surgery; and 49th for urology. "These hospitals excel partly because their doctors perform large numbers of tricky and risky procedures," said Richard Folkers, a spokesperson for the magazine. "Ranked hospi...UB researcher observes strong statistical correlation between prevalence of diabetes, air pollution
...hould be done. Alan Lockwood, M.D., professor of neurology and nuclear medicine in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, and the author of the letter, stated that while the statistical analysis does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between diabetes and air poll...New device finds silent clots, may help prevent strokes
...ays study author David Russell, M.D., professor of neurology at The National Hospital, Oslo, Norway. The techn...s, Russell and Rainer Brucher, Ph.D., professor of neurology at Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany, report findings from a laboratory study and a clin...Toxin injections prove useful for spasticity after stroke
...stroke," said Dr. Brashear, associate professor of neurology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. "A number of studies have demonstrated that botulinum toxin type A decreases muscle rigidity in spastic muscles and one small study has shown functional improvement from this therapy. However, use of the ...Smokers infections increase risk of early atherosclerosis
... lead researcher Stefan Kiechl, M.D., professor of neurology at Austria's Innsbruck University Hospital. Previous research has shown that smoking is linked to respiratory infections, gum infections and chronic ulcer infections. The study by Austrian, Italian and British researchers considered how smoking and...The Lancet Neurology October press release
...up an interactive website to enable members of the neurology community to comment on and shape their proposed c...velopments", they conclude. Review articles : The neurology of mitochondrial DNA disease Epilepsy in autism Progressive supranuclear palsy: where are we now? F...Antipsychotic drug has few side effects in Alzheimer's patients
...sociate professor of clinical neurology at Ohio State University. ...ang, a clinical instructor of neurology at Ohio State, prescribed quetiapine (brand name Seroquel)...New drug may help recovering cocaine addicts, study shows
... drug," said Alan P. Kozikowski, PhD, professor of neurology and director of Georgetown's Drug Discovery Program. Pending the outcome of final toxicology studies, Nocaine is expected to begin Phase I clinical trials in early 2003. (Phase I trials involve a small group of normal human subjects and are used to ...Right side of brain learns language skills after stroke
...eria Blasi, M.D., a former post-doctoral fellow in neurology at the School of Medicine, who now is at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy. Each year, about 750,000 Americans suffer a loss of blood flow to the brain, a condition known as an ischemic stroke. Since the left side of the brain hou...New research adds to understanding of conscious awareness
...said Kimford J. Meador, MD, professor and chair of neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center and the senior author of both articles. "As our understanding of the processes underlying conciousness advances, so will our ability to help patients suffering from a variety of neural impairments." The first a......ertson, a professor of medicine, pharmacology, and neurology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. Both teams conducted their research in a similar manner, which involved using tilt-table testing. In that test, a person lies on a bed-like platform parallel to the floor. The bed is t...