Specialty Neuroscience
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Understanding COVID-19's Neurological Effects
Massachusetts General Hospital investigators are using unprecedented collaboration and frontline experience to better understand the neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Mass General Researchers Find Esmethadone Effective For Major Depressive Disorder
Led by Maurizio Fava, MD, a team of Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have discovered that esmethadone produces favorable outcomes for patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder who previously experienced inadequate responses to antidepressant treatments.
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Consensus Statement: Conducting Digital Monitoring Studies of People at Suicide Risk
Matthew K. Nock, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry, and colleagues have published a consensus statement about best practices for conducting real-time digital monitoring studies of people at risk of suicide and related behaviors.
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Extrapial Hippocampal Resection in Anterior Temporal Lobectomy for Drug-Resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Mark Richardson, MD, PhD, of the Department of Neurosurgery, and colleagues describe an extrapial approach to hippocampal resection in anterior temporal lobectomy for treatment of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy that has proven to be safe and as effective as subpial techniques.
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AI Models to Assess Histopathologic Markers of Alzheimer's Disease, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Valentina Perosa, MD, and Susanne J. van Veluw, PhD, of the Department of Neurology, and colleagues have developed the first convolutional neural networks that can identify and quantify biologically relevant histopathological markers of both Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
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Novel Target Identified for Treatment of ALS
Tiziana Petrozziello, PhD, and Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, PhD, of the Healey Center for ALS, and colleagues are the first to report that alterations in tau phosphorylation underlie mitochondrial dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and an investigational tau degrader might mitigate that dysfunction.
Neuroscience Contributors
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Aman B. Patel, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Neuroendovascular Program
Recent Article
Certain CSF Metabolites May Aid Prognostication After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
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Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
Recent Article
The Future of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience at Mass General: Q&A With Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
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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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Jodi Gilman, PhD
Director of Neuroscience, Center for Addiction Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Portable Imaging Test Shows Promise for Detection of Cannabis Intoxication
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Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD
Associate Chief for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health
Recent Article
Sex-specific Genetic Effects Across Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Traits Identified for the First Time
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Maurizio Fava, MD
Psychiatrist-In-Chief; Director, Division of Clinical Research of the MGH Research Institute, Executive Director, Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI), Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Research, Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Mass General Researchers Find Esmethadone Effective For Major Depressive Disorder
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Merit Ester Cudkowicz, MD, MSc
Chief, Neurology Service, Director of the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Mass General, Director of Neurological Clinical Research Institute and the Jilieane Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Accelerating Diagnoses to Identify Treatments for ALS
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Natalia S. Rost, MD, MPH, FAAN
Chief of Stroke Division, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Acute Ischemic Stroke Outcomes Linked to Sex-Specific Lesion Patterns
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Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD
Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Vice-Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital Neurology Department, Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
How Amyloid-beta Forms Suggests New Strategies for Preventing, Treating Alzheimer's Disease
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Timothy Wilens, MD
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Co-director, Center for Addiction Medicine, Director, Substance Abuse Services in Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Recent Article
Treatment for Substance Use Disorder Reduces Risk of Overdose in Young Adults
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William T. Curry, MD
Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience , Director of Neurosurgical Oncology
Recent Article
Immunotherapies to Treat Glioblastoma
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Ziv Williams, MD
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery
Recent Article
Manipulation of Gene Linked to Autism Spectrum Disorder Restores Neuronal Processing of Social Behavior in Mice
Neuroscience Care at Mass General
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