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Patient-derived Dopamine Neurons Show Promise in Parkinson's Treatment
Massachusetts General Hospital and McClean Hospital researchers take significant steps towards proving the safety and efficacy of dopaminergic neuron implantation to treat Parkinson's disease.
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First-In-Human Therapy with Stem Cell–derived Dopaminergic Progenitor Cells for Parkinson's Disease
Mass General researchers report substantial clinical improvement in a patient with Parkinson's disease after they implanted midbrain dopaminergic progenitor cells that they differentiated in vitro from autologous induced pluripotent stem cells.
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Collaboration in Developing New Cell Therapy
In this video, Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD, Kwang-Soo Kim, PhD, Todd M. Herrington, MD, PhD, and Jeffrey S. Schweitzer, MD, PhD, discuss their cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration to develop this new therapy.
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Toward a Precision Medicine Approach to Deep Brain Stimulation
Victoria Peterson, PhD, Mark Richardson, MD, PhD, and colleagues showed that applying spatial filters improves machine-learning analysis of movement-related oscillations on invasive cortical and subcortical recordings, an important step toward providing individualized therapy with adaptive deep brain stimulation.
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Functional MRI Shows How Parkinson's Disease Disrupts Neuronal Circuits
Radiology researchers Silvia Basaia and Jorge Sepulcre, MD, PhD, DMSc, and colleagues characterized large-scale brain propagation pathways associated with α-synuclein neural protein spreading and identified different patterns of functional connectivity disruptions in patients at different stages of Parkinson's disease.
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Review: Understanding Neuroimaging–Genetic Intersections in the Human Brain
Ibai Diez, PhD, and Jorge Sepulcre, PhD, DMSc, MD, of the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, explain how neuroimaging findings are being combined with genetic data—research that might lead to disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.
Parkinson's Disease Contributors
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Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
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Novel Tandem CAR T-Cell Effective Against Heterogeneous Glioblastoma -
Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, MS, PhD
Assistant in Neuroscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
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Novel Target Identified for Treatment of ALS -
Jeffrey S. Schweitzer, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
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Patient-derived Dopamine Neurons Show Promise in Parkinson's Treatment -
Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Director, Laboratory for Brain Network Imaging and Modulation, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Neuroscientist, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Lesion Locations Causing Cervical Dystonia Are Part of a Common Brain Network -
Robert (Mark) Richardson, MD, PhD
Director of Functional Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Barques Are Generated in Posterior Human Hippocampus -
Todd M. Herrington, MD, PhD
Director, Deep Brain Stimulation Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Patient-derived Dopamine Neurons Show Promise in Parkinson's Treatment -
Ziv Williams, MD
Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor in Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
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Interim Safety Profile From the Feasibility Study of the BrainGate Neural Interface System