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Featured In Orthopaedics
Personalized Risk and Outcome Assessment Benefits through Machine Learning
Joseph Schwab, MD, discusses how the Mass General Spine Center is utilizing machine learning algorithms to help patients understand their risks and outcomes for surgical procedures with a personalized approach.
Featured In Neuroscience
New Targeted Glioma Therapy Could Suppress Tumor Growth
Mass General has developed a genotype-targeted therapy for glioma, designed to be given at the tumor site during surgery, and an accompanying rapid diagnostic.
Featured In Cardiovascular
First Minimally-invasive Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement in New England Performed at Mass General
Physicians at Mass General recently became the first team in New England to perform a transcatheter mitral valve replacement in a non-calcified mitral valve.
Featured In Orthopaedics
Lab Tests Predict Outcome of Two-Stage Exchange for Periprosthetic Joint Infection
Two-stage exchange arthroplasty is extremely costly and associated with high morbidity. Is it possible to identify patients at high-risk of failure?
Featured In Neuroscience
Prenatal Folic Acid and Schizophrenia Prevention
Joshua Roffman, MD, MMSc, discusses his recent work investigating folic acid’s potential neuroprotective effects that may guard against schizophrenia development.
The Latest Neurosciences Advances
Time Window for Thrombectomy After Stroke Can Be Extended for Some Patients
After acute ischemic stroke, the speed of infarct growth varies among patients. Mass General researchers and colleagues investigated whether patients who have salvageable brain tissue, based on imaging, can benefit from endovascular thrombectomy beyond the recommended six-hour limit.
AI–IPL Functional Connectivity Identified as Potential Biomarker of Bipolar Disorder
A key quest in psychiatric research is the search for objective ways to diagnose major mental illnesses. Mass General researchers are exploring whether functional MRI can be used to distinguish between bipolar disorder and unipolar depression.
Contributing Physicians
Joan A. Camprodon, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Clinical Service, Director, Laboratory for Neuropsychiatry & Neuromodulation
Thabele M. Leslie-Mazwi, MD
Specialist in Neuroendovascular and Neurocritical Care
Advances Specialties
Cardiovascular
Lifetime Risk for Atrial Fibrillation Higher Than Expected
Lifetime risk for atrial fibrillation, while high, can be modified with health changes
Orthopaedics
Personalized Risk and Outcome Assessment Benefits through Machine Learning
Joseph Schwab, MD, discusses how the Mass General Spine Center is utilizing machine learning algorithms to help patients understand their risks and outcomes for surgical procedures with a personalized approach.
October 13-14, 2018
CME: Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Update on Management of Pregnancy and Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
This two-day course is dedicated to educating frontline caregivers with up-to-date diagnosis and management of women with cardiovascular conditions during pregnancy. A second day is dedicated to the workup and management of patients with coronary artery dissection.
October 18-21, 2018
Conference: Psychopharmacology Conference 2018
This four-day conference examines the latest research and treatment advances across dozens of mental health conditions. It offers in-depth information that is important for all mental health and primary care settings. Topics include ADHD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, psychosis, PTSD, substance use disorders and much more.
Mechanism of Action Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Are you planning on receiving ECT treatments for depression? Are you interested in getting an MRI scan of your brain? If you answered yes, then you are one step closer to being involved in our research study.
SPARCS
We are recruiting people for a study of brain activity during sleep and how it affects memory and learning.
