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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Social Connection, Television Watching Are Modifiable Factors of Depression
Karmel W. Choi, PhD, Karestan C. Koenen, PhD, and Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD, of the Department of Psychiatry, and colleagues used a novel two-stage approach, an exposure-wide association scan followed by Mendelian randomization, to validate actionable targets for efforts to prevent depression.
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Endonasal Surgery and COVID-19 Protections for Surgeons
William T. Curry, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroscience, discusses the collaboration with colleagues at Mass Eye and Ear to create protective equipment to shield neurosurgeons during skull-base procedures.
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Review: Movies and Narratives as Naturalistic Stimuli in Neuroimaging
Jyrki Ahveninen, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and colleagues recently reviewed the use of movies and stories as stimuli during neuroimaging research into memory, attention, language, emotions and social cognition.
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Genetic Susceptibility to Major Depressive Disorder Associates with Symptom Trajectories Across Childhood
Alexandre A. Lussier, PhD, and Erin C. Dunn, ScD, MPH, of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, and colleagues linked a polygenic risk score to depressive phenotypes in children and adolescents, particularly youth with higher symptom levels during early adolescence.
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Most Adults with ADHD Don't Renew Stimulant Prescriptions on a Timely Basis
Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc, and Joseph Biederman, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry, provide real-world evidence of low rates of renewal of initial stimulant prescriptions by adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, especially in primary care settings.
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
Partnering to Treat Acoustic Neuroma
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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
Social Connection, Television Watching Are Modifiable Factors of Depression
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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 Treatments with the Healey Center ALS Platform Trial
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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
Post-Thrombectomy White Matter Infarct Volume a Strong Determinant of Disability After Large-Vessel Occlusion 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
The Innate Immune Protection Hypothesis of 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
Endonasal Surgery and COVID-19 Protections for Surgeons
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Ziv Williams, MD
Associate Professor in Neurosurgery
Recent Article
Spine Surgeon Specialty Does Not Influence Short-term Outcomes of Percutaneous Kyphoplasty
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