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$1.5 Million Grant to Yale for Narcolepsy-Neurotransmitter Study

...d the principal investigator, Anthony van den Pol, neurosurgery professor. He said neurons send out long fibers, or axons, to other nerve cells and release either an inhibitor or excitatory neurotransmitter onto their target cells. A small number of these neurons make and secrete the transmitter hypocretin. H...

Mumbai to Have Integrated Trauma Care Facility

...ry therapist. Availability of thoracic, cardiac, neurosurgery and all other surgical sub speciality experts must be available within 30 minutes. The hospital should also have well equipped dedicated room for trauma patients in the emergency ward. The level two hospitals would have all facility like level one ...

Integrated Trauma Care Facility in Mumbai

...ory therapist. Availability of thoracic, cardiac, neurosurgery and all other surgical sub specialty experts must be available within 30 minutes. The hospital should also have well equipped dedicated room for trauma patients in the emergency ward. The level two hospitals would have all facility like level one ex...

New Invention to Detect Blood Clots

...t requiring transport to a facility where there is neurosurgery capability. The American Navy has invested up to a million dollars in the infrscanner as they see many benefits in the device. As it can be used in the Iraq war to save the lives of the soldiers. According to Mihir Shah from the company Infrascann...

Study Challenges Conventional Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

...us work by Dr. Neil Martin, professor and chief of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Thomas Glenn, a UCLA adjunct assistant professor in the department of neurosurgery, showed that the brain takes up lactate after traumatic injury. Now, thanks to a $275,000 grant from the National I...

UCSF Brain Tumor Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Results

... presentation at AANS, Henry Brem, MD, director of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, noted, “This is an encouraging study of a therapeutic cancer vaccine that targets multiple tumor antigens, supported by rigorous immuno-monitoring. A larger phase 2 trial is certainly warranted to evaluate e...

A ‘Fit’ of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgey

...Dr Schneider, co-chief of the hospital's pediatric neurosurgery unit, after examining the child, took a decision of operating upon the child. He did this by dividing the lobes of the little girl’s brain. Using a navigation system he negotiated his way to the tumor, which proved very tough to spot. The grape-sized...

Different Causes for Childhood Brain Aneurysm was Revealed

...says Abruzzo, an assistant professor of radiology, neurosurgery and biomedical engineering at UC and interventional neuroradiologist at University Hospital and Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center. Most cerebrovascular specialists believe that aneurysms arise from mechanical fatigue of the arterial wallre...

Neural Stem Cells Reduce Parkinsons Symptoms in Monkeys

...D. Eugene Redmond Jr., professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery at Yale. Not only are stem cells a potential source of replacement cells, they also seem to have a whole variety of effects that normalize other abnormalities, Redmond said. The human neural stem cells implanted into the primates survived, migrated...

Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury can Be Predicted Using MRI

...G. Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.S.C., professor of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and medical director at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre at Toronto Western Hospital. "In addition," Dr. Fehlings said, "these findings could result in a more aggressive clinical strategy for patients who may appear to hav...

A Fit of Laughter Silenced by an Unusual Surgery

...Dr Schneider, co-chief of the hospital's pediatric neurosurgery unit, after examining the child, took a decision of operating upon the child. He did this by dividing the lobes of the little girls brain. Using a navigation system he negotiated his way to the tumor, which proved very tough to spot. The grape-sized ...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

...cording to Dr. Sperling. Mark Cook, professor of neurosurgery at St Vincent's Hospital, the really big issue is still the stigma and social difficulty that surround the diagnosis of epilepsy and its management." It has been seen that women with the illness were more likely to take their own life then men. The i...

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