Specialty Neuroscience
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Closing the Health Equity Gap in Neurosurgical Care
Neurosurgeon Theresa Williamson, MD, a Massachusetts General Hospital physician-scientist and medical ethicist, studies decision-making and health care disparities in neurosurgery.
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Mass General Renews Focus on Pediatric Epilepsy
A new team approach at Mass General is applying advances in adult epileptics, such as epilepsy surgery and responsive neurostimulation, to children.
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Systematic Review: Positive Psychological Interventions for Improving Health Behaviors
Emily H. Feig, PhD, Bettina Hoeppner, PhD, MS, and colleagues recently conducted the first systematic review of literature on positive psychological interventions that assessed health behavior outcomes.
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Review: A New Science of Emotion and Its Implications for Functional Neurological Disorder
David L. Perez, MD, MMSc, Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, and colleagues recently reviewed the theory of constructed emotion and posit that deficits in the brain's predictive process of constructing emotion categories are integral to the pathogenesis of functional neurological disorder.
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Minimally Invasive Electrocorticography, Continuous EEG Do Not Reliably Detect Spreading Depolarizations
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers found that electrocorticography recorded with a conventional subdural strip electrode, electrocorticography recorded with a minimally invasive intraparenchymal electrode, and continuous scalp EEG were all unsatisfactory for identifying spreading depolarizations.
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Fast fMRI Detects Specific Cascade of Thalamic Activity at Transitions in Behavioral Arousal State
Laura Lewis, PhD, and colleagues identified a stereotyped sequence of activity that unfolds across thalamic nuclei during at the moment of awakening, reinforcing the role of the thalamus in arousal state transitions, and ascertained distinct functional profiles for diverse nuclei within the thalamus.
Neuroscience Contributors
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Aman B. Patel, MD
Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the Neuroendovascular Program
Recent Article
No Sex Differences in Outcomes After Endovascular Thrombectomy for LVO Stroke
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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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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
Novel Form of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Promising for Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
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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
Psychiatric Disorders Not Associated With Incidental Findings in Medically Actionable Genes
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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
Esmethadone Safe and Tolerable in Phase 2a Trial in 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
Healey Platform ALS Trial Expected to Expedite U.S. Approval of New Treatments
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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
MRI-defined Acute Ischemic Brain Lesions Can Predict Long-term Outcome After Endovascular Thrombectomy for LVO Stroke
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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, Massachusetts General Hospital, Adeline Rose Wydotis Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Designing Leading-Edge Immunotherapy for Brain Cancer
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Ziv Williams, MD
Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor in Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Basic Rules Identified for Therapeutic Intracranial Stimulation of the Human Brain
Neuroscience Care at Mass General
Through a combination of unmatched expertise, creativity and compassion, Mass General Neuroscience relentlessly advances the fields of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Psychiatry to unleash our patients’ potential.