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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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Developing a Gene Therapy for an Extremely Rare Cerebrovascular Disease
Massachusetts General Hospital physician-scientist Patricia Musolino, MD, PhD, was a key investigator in a clinical trial that led to the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a cerebral disease. Her research is focused on studying rare genetic disorders to develop approaches that may lead to gene therapy treatments.
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Higher Levels of Education Buffer Against Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease
Stephanie Langella, PhD, Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD, and colleagues show that among people who carry the presenilin 1 E280A mutation that causes autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline is accelerated by the APOE e4 allele and delayed by the APOE e2 allele and higher levels of formal education.
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Antisense Drugs Mimic TDP-43 Function, Might Treat ALS and Some Dementias
Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, MD, PhD, and colleagues have demonstrated in vitro and in vivo efficacy of antisense oligonucleotides in preventing missplicing of stathmin-2 in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis attributable to deficiency of the protein TDP-43.
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
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Detecting 'Covert Consciousness' in the ICU With TMS-EEG -
Jodi Gilman, PhD
Director of Neuroscience, Center for Addiction Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Pain Catastrophizing Is Associated With Reduced Neural Response to Monetary Reward -
Keith A. Johnson, MD
Radiologist
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Tau PET Imaging May Help Identify People with Pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s Disease -
Nagagopal Venna, MD
Director, Neurology Clinic, Director, Neuro-Infectious Diseases Clinic, Director, Academic General Neurology Fellowship Program
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NEJM Images in Clinical Medicine: Using Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement to Treat Normal-pressure Hydrocephalus -
Yakeel T. Quiroz, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab, Director, Multicultural Alzheimer's Prevention Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Paul B. and Sandra M. Edgerley MGH Research Scholar 2020-2025
Recent Article
Higher Levels of Education Buffer Against Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease