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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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Basic Rules Identified for Therapeutic Intracranial Stimulation of the Human Brain
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have found evidence it may be possible to establish how brain stimulation should be given—where and with what amplitude, duration and frequency—to produce specific therapeutic results for individual patients with a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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COVID-19 During Pregnancy: Q&A With Roy Perlis, MD, MSc
A preliminary study at Massachusetts General Hospital, co-led by Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, director of the Center for Quantitative Health, and Andrea Edlow, MD, MSc, an investigator in the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology suggests that COVID-19 infection during pregnancy may lead to developmental delays in the child's early life. Dr. Perlis explains the study and its implications.
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MRI Shows Small Vessel Degeneration Is Bidirectional Between Gray and White Matter
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital confirmed that in human cerebral small vessel disease, primary damage to white matter can cause remote damage in gray matter—but the reverse also occurs. This suggests a new framework for investigating the mechanisms and potential therapies for this disease.
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
Ethical Implications of Neuroimaging That Detects Covert Consciousness
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Jodi Gilman, PhD
Director of Neuroscience, Center for Addiction Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Cannabis Use Disorder Can Develop Soon After a Medical Marijuana Card Is Obtained
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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
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
MRI Feature Is Marker of Disease Progression in Preclinical Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease
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