Specialty Neuroscience
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Featured
Imaging Technology Advances Multiple Sclerosis Research
Massachusetts General Hospital is developing and testing new imaging techniques to better understand multiple sclerosis (MS) pathology, physical symptoms and cognitive impairment associated with MS.
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Featured
Establishing Postpartum PTSD After Traumatic Childbirth
A Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist is working to establish formal recognition of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder (CB-PTSD). Her work aims to inform healthcare providers that postpartum PTSD differs from postpartum depression.
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Pathways Case Report: A Case of Unusually High Penetrance of a Classic Thrombophilia Mutation
A 65-year-old woman with known heterozygous prothrombin G20210A mutation (PGM) with a family history of stroke presented to the hospital with shortness of breath and chest pain despite taking prophylactic anticoagulation therapy.
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Improving Outcomes for Patients With Drug-resistant Epilepsy Through Surgery
Although current surgical approaches for treating drug-resistant epilepsy are already good, researchers at the Brigham are focused on developing treatments that are even more effective and less invasive. John David Rolston, MD, PhD, director of Epilepsy Surgery, highlights some of these promising efforts.
Neuroscience Contributors
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Aman B. Patel, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Neuroendovascular Program
Recent Article
Case Report: Direct Burr Hole Access for Embolization of Dural Arteriovenous Fistula
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Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
Recent Article
Co-transplantation of Regulatory T Cells Improves Cell Replacement Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
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Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, MS, PhD
Assistant in Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Novel Target Identified for Treatment of ALS
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Jill M. Goldstein, PhD
Founder & Executive Director, Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Helen T. Moerschner Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair in Women’s Health, Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Effect of Hypertension on Midlife Cognition May Be Detrimental in Women
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