Specialty Neuroscience
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Featured
Building Resiliency in Patients and Caregivers to Guard Against Emotional Distress After Brain Injury
Massachusetts General Hospital's novel Neuroscience ICU program aims to prevent emotional stress after acute brain injury for patients and their primary caregivers.
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Q&A with Dr. Maurizio Fava: New Chief of Psychiatry's Vision for the Future
Maurizio Fava, MD, the newly appointed chief of the Department of Psychiatry, reflects on his outlook for the department and the field of psychiatry as he takes over as chair.
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An Integrated Approach Aids Functional Neurological Disorder Care and Research
Massachusetts General Hospital clinician-scientists take a two-pronged approach to advance functional neurological disorder care and understanding.
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Novel Brain Mapping Confirms Disruption of Ascending Arousal Network in Acute Traumatic Coma
High-angular-resolution diffusion imaging of comatose patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury supports the current concept that coma in such patients is caused by subcortical injury to the ascending arousal network.
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Taurine May Predict Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Outcomes
Predicting aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is challenging due to the lack of a biometric marker. Using metabolomic profiling, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers identify taurine as a potential biomarker for predicting stroke in patients.
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Medical Grand Rounds: Boston Biomedical Community Come Together to Respond to COVID-19
On March 12, 2020, the Department of Medicine held a virtual Grand Rounds Presentation that featured experts from the greater Boston biomedical community who are collaborating research efforts to quickly and effectively respond to COVID-19. They discussed the current state of the pandemic in the U.S., and how research will help us better understand everything from the epidemiology to diagnostics to treatment of COVID-19.
Neuroscience contributors
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Aman B. Patel, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Neuroendovascular Program
Recent Article
Taurine May Predict Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Outcomes
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Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
Recent Article
Multimodal Approach to Unruptured Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations Tops ARUBA Outcomes
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Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, MS, PhD
Assistant in Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Cromolyn Sodium Provides Neuroprotection in Animal Model of ALS
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Jodi Gilman, PhD
Director of Neuroscience, Center for Addiction Medicine
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
Novel Polygenic Method Developed to Predict Genetic Liability of Traits and Disorders
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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
Finding Better Treatments for Depression
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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
Cromolyn Sodium Provides Neuroprotection in Animal Model of 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
The Potential Power of Brain MRI in Predicting Stroke Risk and Recovery: A Q&A with Natalia S. Rost, MD, MPH
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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
The Innate Immune Protection Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease
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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
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
New Approach to CAR T-Cell Therapy for Glioblastoma Aims to Circumvent Antigen Escape
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Ziv Williams, MD
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery
Recent Article
Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Has Important Role in Subjective Decision-making
Neuroscience Care at Mass General
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