Sentences with phrase «university neurologist»

«SMA has often been misrepresented to the public as muscular dystrophy,» says Columbia University neurologist Darryl De Vivo.

Washington University neurologist and study lead Dr. Randall Bateman says this is one of the first clinical trials to try to treat Alzheimer's patients before they have any symptoms.

Washington University neurologist Dr. Randall Bateman says researchers saw changes in the brain scans, spinal fluid, and blood of people with inherited Alzheimer's as much as 15 to 20 years before the onset of symptoms.

Columbia University neurologist Scott Small has taken advantage of the increased resolution of fMRI to delve into separate sections within a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

Emory University neurologist Helen Mayberg has pioneered a startling way to help people suffering from this devastating form of depre...

The new studies build on work by Emory University neurologist Helen Mayberg.

That may explain why 98 % of the e4 - positive subjects said they would still get tested if they had the choice again, says Robert Green, the Boston University neurologist who led the study: «If this information was a drug,... it looks pretty safe in this small group of screened individuals.»

In a three - stage meta - analysis, Harvard University neurologist Clemens Scherzer and his collaborators analyzed gene expression in 410 samples taken from patients that either had symptomatic or asymptomatic Parkinson's or were healthy, including 185 samples of substantia nigra — a midbrain region where dopamine neurons are particularly susceptible to degeneration.

A study cited in a NY Times article states that McGill University neurologist, Michael Meaney, discovered that his rats who licked and groomed their babies frequently, produced rats who figured out mazes more quickly than the rats whose mothers were less attentive.

Not exact matches

Clinicians can measure language ability by having a patient describe a picture, for instance, said Dr. Seyed Sajjadi of the University of Southern California, a neurologist who specializes in dementias.

Respected neurologists such as Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues Eugene D'Aquili and Vince Rause (authors of Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief), say not only that we're wired to dream but that we are wired to have unifying mystical experiences.

While the pile of concussion books in my office continues to grow taller, seemingly with every passing day, one that will stay at the top of the very short pile of my favorites is Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn't Have To End Your Athletic Career (Oxford University Press, New York 2016) by sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher, M.D., and award - winning sports journalist Joanne Gerstner.

Before joining the faculty this past year, McKenna taught at Pomona College in California, where he collaborated with neurologist Sarah Mosko of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine for 15 years on a series of experiments looking into what happens physiologically when babies sleep with their mothers instead of alone.

Commenting at the time on the 2010 Purdue study for Sports Illustrated [20][15], Randall Benson, a neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, speculated that the Purdue researchers may have taken what amounted to a «real - time snapshot» of the early stages of the corrosive creep that wears away at the frontal lobe, a part of the brain involved in navigating social situations.

Neurologists at the University of Pennsylvania, for instance, once found that «chronic sleep loss,» or sleeping only 4 - 6 hours a night for two weeks, «severely impairs cognitive functioning in adults.»

A neurologist with the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Dr. Nura Alkali, has opined that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris» struggle during his «infamous» speech at an event in Kano could be as a result of «brain block».

So even though my dad is in his late 70s and usually is too absentminded to remember what he ate for lunch, his NDE is seared in his mind — something called preferential encoding, says Steven Laureys, a neurologist who is chair of the World Federation of Neurology Applied Research Group on Coma and Disorders of Consciousness and director of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège in Belgium.

NDE researcher and neurologist Kevin Nelson of the University of Kentucky tells me fading blood flow, even for a few seconds, signals a crisis to the brain.

A team of ophthalmologists, neurologists, geneticists, and pediatricians, led by Marcia B. Tartarella, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, evaluated the infants from January to May 2016.

Antonio Damasio, a neurologist and neuroscientist now at the University of Southern California, began thinking seriously about emotions after meeting a patient named Elliot.

«Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients have limited treatment options and a desperate need for effective therapies,» said University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) neurologist Robert Griggs, M.D., lead author of the study.

«Even as little as 15 years ago it would have been almost heresy to suggest it,» says Peter Goadsby, a neurologist at University College London.

«The real tragedy is that so many people don't know there's help available,» says neurologist David Silberstein of Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

«Loads of patients turned up without appointments,» says Sarah Tabrizi, a neurologist at University College London.

So Yang Shi and her PhD advisor, neurologist David Holtzman at Washington University were in for a surprise when they peeked at a set of brain slices from mice engineered to produce tau pathology.

But, recently, a team led by neurologist Peter Goadsby of University College London produced evidence of structural differences within the brains of a group of people suffering from cluster headaches.

But even if those therapies pass muster, they would need to be given very early before people develop memory problems, says neurologist Adam Boxer of the University of California, San Francisco.

The hypocretin receptor 2 gene could be the single most important gene in human narcolepsy, says Michael Aldrich, a neurologist and director of the University of Michigan's Sleep Disorders Center.

University of Vienna neurologist Karl Dussik measured ultrasound transmissions through patients» heads in an attempt to locate brain tumors.

However, they had signs of mild brain damage to almost the same extent as the cardiac arrest patients,» says Dr Tobias Cronberg, Associate Professor at Lund University and consultant neurologist at Skåne University Hospital in Lund.

However, Stephen Back, a neurologist at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, points out that there is not yet proof that myelin - producing cells are stuck in arrested development in infants with brain injuries, although this has been shown both in mice and in adults with multiple sclerosis.

Now researchers led by neurologist Michelle L. Monje of Harvard University have found the root of these cognitive difficulties: damaged stem cells.

«If you want to study ApoE biology, you really need to devote a laboratory to understanding the techniques,» says neurologist David Holtzman of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

«In humans, none,» says neurologist James Boyd of the University of Vermont College of Medicine.

Oliver Bandmann, Professor of Movement Disorders Neurology at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, added: «Whilst we have been looking at Parkinson's patients who carry the LRRK2 mutation, mitochondrial defects are also present in other inherited and sporadic forms of Parkinson's, where we do not know the causes yet.

There's a neurologist at the University of Milan in Italy named Edoardo Bisiach who's an expert on a neuropsychological disorder known as anosognosia.

But the actual incidence is almost certainly higher, according to a Loyola University Medical Center neurologist and headache specialist.

As a result, it is commonplace for MD / PhD psychiatrists or neurologists to obtain fully independent, tenure - track assistant professorships — at the top universities in the country — within 4 or 5 years of their graduation from medical school.

«The diverse activities now under way illustrate that there are many different ways of being a neuroscientist,» says Claudia Kawas, a neurologist at the University of California, Irvine.

Nevertheless, neurologist Peter Rothwell, a researcher at Oxford University and specialist on stroke, has found that 80 percent of such procedures were performed on low - risk patients without symptoms — an inappropriate group.

Some treatments for mitochondrial diseases aim to boost ATP production, says Michio Hirano, a neurologist at Columbia University, who is running the North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium, which aims to characterize and test new therapies for mitochondrial diseases.

Recently, Cox and colleagues have been studying ALS clusters on the Kii Peninsula in southeastern Japan, and he has joined forces with University of Miami neurologist Bradley to study a heightened incidence of the disease among American veterans of the first Gulf War.

«One group has vociferously denied the hypothesis,» says Walter Bradley, a neurologist and leading authority on ALS at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

When Laura Dugan, a neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis, heard that buckyballs absorb free radicals, she designed experiments to test whether or not buckyballs could slow down nerve cell death.

A recent experiment by pharmaceutical scientist Mami Noda of Kyushu University and neurologist Bruce Ransom of the University of Washington points to a solution.

Neurologist Malcolm MacLeod of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and his colleagues combed through papers reporting the efficacy of drugs in eight animal disease models and checked whether the authors reported four measures that are widely acknowledged to reduce the risk of bias.

The new system, developed by neurologist Niels Birbaumer and his team at the University of Tübingen in Germany, consists of a computer screen in front of a locked - in patient and connected to electrodes that register the person's brain activity.

«There are many things that have worked in [the mouse model] that haven't worked in MS, or have only modest effects,» says neurologist Robert Lisak of Wayne State University in Detroit.

The finding shows that buckyballs «act as an effective antioxidant,» sweeping up free radicals, says Jonathan Gitlin, a pediatric neurologist at Washington University.

In 1978, rheumatologist Jon Levine and neurologist Howard Fields, both at the University of California, San Francisco, did a simple experiment with people in pain after dental surgery.