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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Prenatal Diagnosis Codes Predict Maternal Morbidity, Aid in Risk Stratification
Mark A. Clapp, MD, MPH, Roy H. Perlis, MD, and colleagues demonstrated the potential utility of prenatal ICD-10 codes to identify a group of women who were more than 2 to 3.5 times more likely than others to have severe maternal morbidity.
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How Amyloid-beta Forms Suggests New Strategies for Preventing, Treating Alzheimer's Disease
In a study with major implications for drug development in Alzheimer's disease, Raja Bhattacharyya, PhD, and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD, of the McCance Center for Brain Health, and colleagues have determined how neurotoxic amyloid-β is generated in axons and how its production can be reduced.
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Using AI to Predict COVID-19 Outcomes
Shibani S. Mukerji, MD, PhD, associate director of the Neuro-Infectious Diseases Unit of the Department of Neurology, talks about her work on developing the COVID-19 Acuity Score (CoVA), which can be incorporated into an electronic health record system.
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Treating FND Patients During COVID-19
David L. Perez, MD, MMSc, director of the Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Treatment Program, discusses how consultation and treatment for FND, a condition that sits between neurology and psychiatry, can be accessed through telemedicine and virtual technologies.
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Review: Challenges in Discovering Extracellular Vesicle–based Cancer Biomarkers
Anudeep Yekula, MD, Leonora Balaj, PhD, and Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD, of the Department of Neurosurgery, highlight hurdles in the process of developing extracellular vesicle–based cancer biomarkers, from discovery to clinical application.
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
Review: Challenges in Discovering Extracellular Vesicle–based Cancer Biomarkers
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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, 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
Suicide Risk Prediction Models Should Be Cost-Effective in U.S. Primary Care
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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
Improvement Needed in Genetic Test–Guided Treatment of 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
Single Neurons Identified That Support Social Reasoning
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