Specialty Neuroscience
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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.
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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.
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How Liquid Biopsy Could Improve Brain Tumor Treatment and Diagnoses
Mass General doctors are developing a liquid biopsy for brain tumors to reduce the need for invasive tissue biopsies.
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Using Biomarkers to Predict and Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD, is the director of the Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. For the past several years, she has been studying a Columbian family with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease. In this video, she discusses her research to find biomarkers that signal early brain changes associated with developing Alzheimer's Disease.
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Using Data and AI to Predict Patient Outcomes in Spinal Osteomies
In this video, John H. Shin, MD, discusses his research on the use of innovative technologies to help us predict which patients will benefit from complex spinal osteotomies for deformity, which has a very high complication rate.
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Can Exercise Reduce Symptoms of Depression?
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital evaluated genetic data from more than 600,000 adults and found evidence that physical activity likely plays a causal role in reducing depression risk.
Neuroscience contributors
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Aman B. Patel, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Neuroendovascular Program
Recent Article
Using Data to Predict Which Aneurysms May Burst
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Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
Recent Article
Treating Brain Tumors with Car T-Cells
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Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, MS, PhD
Assistant in Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Potential New Drug Target for Huntington's Disease Identified
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Jodi Gilman, PhD
Director of Neuroscience, Center for Addiction Medicine
Recent Article
Marijuana and the Young Brain
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Jonathan Rosand, MD
Co-Director, Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Chief, Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology, Medical Director, Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Recent Article
Genetic Variation and Risk of Stroke
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Jordan W. Smoller, MD
Associate Chief for research in the Department of Psychiatry, Director of the 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
Can Exercise Reduce Symptoms of Depression?
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Maurizio Fava, MD
Director, Division of Clinical Research of the MGH Research Institute, Executive Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Executive Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network & Institute (CTNI), Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Research, Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Clinical Trial Suggests New Combination Drug Targeting Opioid System May Relieve Major Depression Symptoms
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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
Infusions of Regulatory T Cells Slowed ALS Progression in First-in-Humans Trial
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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, Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Unconventionality in Alzheimer's Research and the Pursuit of Validation -
Timothy Wilens, MD
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Co-director, Center for Addiction Medicine, Director, Substance Abuse Services in Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Recent Article
Exposure to Maternal Substance Use Disorder Increases Risk of Alcohol Use Disorder in Young Adults
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William T. Curry, MD
Co-Director, Mass General Neuroscience , Director of Neurosurgical Oncology
Recent Article
Surgery May Not Improve Survival After First Documented Progression of Glioblastoma
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Ziv Williams, MD
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery
Recent Article
Long-Term Visual Memory Has a Role in Suppressing Learning
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