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Tau PET Imaging May Help Identify People with Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease
Brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease can now be studied in living people. Mass General researchers imaged cognitively normal people who are destined to develop AD due to a rare genetic mutation. Their goal: to discover how soon brain changes are present before symptoms begin and how soon preventive treatments could be initiated.
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NEJM Images in Clinical Medicine: Using Ventriculoperitoneal-shunt Placement to Treat Normal-pressure Hydrocephalus
Neurologists at Mass General explore the case of a woman who endured gait disturbance, cognitive impairment and urinary incontinence for 2 years before she was diagnosed with normal-pressure hydrocephalus and successfully treated with surgical shunting.
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fMRI and EEG May Find Signals of Consciousness Earlier in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients
The rate of misclassification of unconsciousness can be as high as 40%. A Mass General team studied using fMRI and EEG to better identify patients with unconsciousness in the ICU.
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Advancements in the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disease
In this video, Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, PhD, director of the NeuroEpigenetics Laboratory and the MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease, discusses her genetic research, specifically concerning neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and X-linked dystonia parkinsonism.
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Identifying New Potential Therapeutic Targets for ALS FTD
Transcripts of repeat expansions in the C90RF72 gene undergo a repeat-associated non-AUG (RAN) translation pathway that generates multiple aberrant proteins. Researchers at Mass General Hospital identified new potential therapeutic targets for ALS FTD.
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How Does the Brain Transform Thoughts into Spoken Words?
Mass General researchers used cortical stimulation and neural recording to study a specific linguistic computation in speech production known as morpho-syntactic processing.
Neurology contributors
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Brian L. Edlow, MD
Associate Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery (CNTR), Director, Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness (NICC), Director, Critical Care Research Neuroimaging
Recent Article
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Jodi Gilman, PhD
Director of Neuroscience, Center for Addiction Medicine
Recent Article
fNIRS Brain Imaging Detects Changes to Brain Function After Cannabis Use
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Keith A. Johnson, MD
Radiologist
Recent Article
Tau PET Imaging May Help Identify People with Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease
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Nagagopal Venna, MD
Director, Neurology Clinic, Director, Neuro-Infectious Diseases Clinic, Director, Academic General Neurology Fellowship Program
Recent Article
NEJM Images in Clinical Medicine: Using Ventriculoperitoneal-shunt Placement to Treat Normal-pressure Hydrocephalus
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Yakeel T. Quiroz-Gaviria, PhD
Co-Director, MGH Multicultural Neuropsychology Program (MUNDOS)
Recent Article
Tau PET Imaging May Help Identify People with Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease
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