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Neurology is the branch of medicine concerned with nerves; both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. This includes strokes and disorders affecting the brain aswell as spinal cord damage and peripheral neuropathies.The complexity of the nervous system, and the control it has over other systems in our body as well as external behaviour makes it a fascinating area of research.
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Valeant Pharmaceuticals To Present At 34th Annual Goldman Sachs Global Healthcare Conference
LAVAL, Quebec, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX) (TSX: VRX) today announced members of its senior management team will make a presentati...
EnteroMedics Completes VBLOC Therapy Pre-PMA Meeting With FDA
ST. PAUL, MN -- (Marketwired) -- 05/17/13 -- EnteroMedics Inc. (NASDAQ: ETRM), the developer of medical devices using neuroblocking technology to treat obesity, metabolic diseases and other gastroint...
Actor John O'Hurley Hosts New AAN Epilepsy Video
MINNEAPOLIS, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Television actor and "Dancing with the Stars" winner John O'Hurley is the host of Epilepsy: A Guide for Patients and Families, the latest free...
Valeant Pharmaceuticals To Webcast 2013 Annual Meeting Of Shareholders
LAVAL, Quebec, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX) (TSX: VRX) today announced that it will conduct a live webcast of the company's annual meeting of sh...
JAMA Suggests Chiropractic for Low Back Pain
Chiropractic Physicians Provide Natural Alternatives for Pain Treatment, Injury Prevention An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) s...
Black Women Have Higher Incidence of Multiple Sclerosis than White Women
PASADENA, Calif., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Multiple sclerosis is more common in black women than in white women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in the journal...
FzioMed Receives Approval for Dynavisc® in Australia
FzioMed, a privately held medical device company based in San Luis Obispo, CA., is pleased to announce the inclusion of Dynavisc on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (A...
LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwired) -- 05/03/13 -- Quality Care IPA, a local independent physician association, continues to increase the number of providers in its network with the addition of Shanker Di...
Treatment Co-Developed by Leading Canadian Physician A clinical trial being conducted at the University of British Columbia, sponsored by Active-O, is currently recruiting pat...
Multiple Sclerosis is a difficult disease for patients, with troublesome fluctuating symptoms and a general degeneration and decline in function. The challenge for MS patients partly due to the lack...
Events
The CNS Diseases World Summit 2013 brings together the leading experts across the industry and academia to discuss the latest research and developments in the CNS field.
Companies
Vitera Healthcare Solutions, formerly Sage Healthcare, provides end-to-end clinical and financial technology solutions to more than 400,000 healthcare professionals including 80,0...
Ipsen is a global biopharmaceutical group, with sales exceeding 1 billion euros in 2009. The Group has total worldwide staff of more than 4,400 employees, of which nearly 900 cont...
Cardiac Regeneration Technologies
CRT is a privately held medical device company based out of Woodstock, Georgia. CRT focuses its efforts on the use of pressure pulse technology and therapy on cardiovascular...
Gulf Coast Veterinary Neurology & Neurosurgery
Gulf Cost Veterinary Neurology & Neurosurgery is a specialty referral practice committed to the care and treatment of companion animals with medical and surgical neurological cond...
Miami Children's Hospital Foundation
Miami Childrenâs Hospital Foundation is a not-for profit 501(c)(3) established to create a world-class pediatric hospital so no child need leave South Florida for superior me...
Biogen Idec uses cutting-edge science to discover, develop, manufacture and market therapies for serious diseases with a focus on neurology, immunology and hemophilia. Founded in...
Biogen Idec and Portola Pharmaceuticals
Biogen Idec uses cutting-edge science to discover, develop, manufacture and market therapies for serious diseases with a focus on neurology, immunology and hemophilia. Founded in...
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products for the treatment of central nervous system, or CNS, diseas...
Cigna Corporation and Weill Cornell Physician Organization
Weill Cornell Physician Organization is an 850 member multi-specialty group practice in New York City. All Weill Cornell physicians are faculty members of Weill Cornell Medical Co...
Nihon Kohden America was founded in 1979 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Nihon Kohden Corporation, Japan (founded in 1951). Nihon Kohden is a market leader in patient monitoring,...
Clinical Trials
Direct Stimulation Of Spinal Nerve Roots To Determine Sensory And Motor Innervation Patterns
The purpose of this study is to collect data while monitoring muscles and nerves during spine surgery. The data being collected and analyzed will be used to learn more about how the body's...
Piracetam for Treatment Tardive Dyskinesia
The mechanism involved in the development of tardive dyskinesia (TD) is complicated. It now seems that several neurotransmitter systems may be affected, including dopaminergic, noradrenerg...
Panic Disorder and Cardiac Risk
The reason for increased cardiac mortality in panic disorder has not been precisely identified, but possibly is due to chronic activation of the cardiac stimulant (sympathetic) nerves, whi...
Concurrent Chemoradiation Versus Wide Pelvic Lymphadenectomy for Advanced Rectal Cancer
Based on the neurophysiology, it is well known that sympathetic nerves control the ejaculatory function and bladder neck closure. In contrast, the parasympathetic nerves control penile ere...
Training for Diagnosing Neurological Disorders
This training protocol has two objectives: 1) to train NINDS fellows in specialized techniques for diagnosing neurological disorders, and 2) to gather data from healthy volunteers and from...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect Brain Damage in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
This study will determine whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect damage to certain parts of the brain and analyze the thickness of the brain's outer surface in patients with m...
Screening for Research Subjects With Anterior Segment Diseases
This study will identify patients with anterior segment disease who may be eligible to participate in current or future NEI studies on this disease. Anterior segment disease includes all d...
Transcranial Electrical Polarization to Treat Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
This study will examine the effects of transcranial electrical polarization (TEP) on gait (walking) problems and rigidity in patients with Parkinson's disease. TEP is a method of brain st...
Safety of RG2077 in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disorder. In this disease, the body's immune system attacks and destroys the cells that cover and protect nerves. This study will test the safety...
Autologous Incubated Macrophages for Patients With Complete Spinal Cord Injuries
Autologous Incubated Macrophages (ProCord) is being developed as a therapy for acute, complete spinal cord injury (SCI). The therapy is intended to reverse the loss of motor and sensory fu...
PubMed Articles
Objective. High frequency biphasic (HFB) electrical currents are widely used in nerve blocking studies. Their safety margins largely remain unknown and need to be investigated. Approach. This study, e...
Prior research has revealed that when healthy participants, who are not artists, are asked to draw a person who is performing an action, they are more likely to position the agent on the left and the...
Shunting for normal pressure hydrocephalus in patients with neurodegenerative disorders.
The Aphasia Rapid Test: an NIHSS-like aphasia test.
The Aphasia Rapid Test (ART) is a 26-point scale developed as a bedside assessment to rate aphasia severity in acute stroke patients in
Teaching NeuroImages: T2 hyperintensities in neurofibromatosis type 1.
A 4-year-old boy with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), an asymptomatic optic glioma, and a right basal ganglia T2-hyperintense lesion (figure, A and B) developed a left hemiparesis with hyperreflexia o...
Clinical Reasoning: A 25-year-old man with headaches and collapse.
A 25-year-old Caucasian man with a history of headaches presented to the emergency room for witnessed collapse. The emergency room physician who initially evaluated the patient reported that the physi...
Child Neurology: Zellweger syndrome.
Zellweger syndrome (ZS) is a severe manifestation of disease within the spectrum of peroxisome biogenesis disorders that includes neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, infantile Refsum disease, and rhizomeli...
Carotid dissection following a generalized tonic-clonic seizure.
A 37-year-old woman experienced a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. Subsequent to the seizure, the patient observed left-sided face and neck pain. A left Horner syndrome was noted on examination. An M...
Impact of Onset-to-Reperfusion Time on Stroke Mortality: A Collaborative Pooled Analysis.
Onset-to-reperfusion time has been reported to be associated with clinical prognosis. However, its impact on mortality remained to be assessed. Using a collaborative pooled analysis, we examined wheth...
Videos
Cranial Nerves Mnemonic! Neurology unleashed and oversimplified
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Auditory Brain Stem Implants
Multi-channel hearing devices typically used for patients who have tumors on the COCHLEAR NERVE and are unable to benefit from COCHLEAR IMPLANTS after tumor surgery that severs the cochlear nerve. The device electrically stimulates the nerves of cochlea nucleus in the BRAIN STEM rather than the inner ear as in cochlear implants.
Cadasil
A familial, cerebral arteriopathy mapped to chromosome 19q12, and characterized by the presence of granular deposits in small CEREBRAL ARTERIES producing ischemic STROKE; PSEUDOBULBAR PALSY; and multiple subcortical infarcts (CEREBRAL INFARCTION). CADASIL is an acronym for Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy. CADASIL differs from BINSWANGER DISEASE by the presence of MIGRAINE WITH AURA and usually by the lack of history of arterial HYPERTENSION. (From Bradley et al, Neurology in Clinical Practice, 2000, p1146)
Blood-nerve Barrier
The barrier between the perineurium of PERIPHERAL NERVES and the endothelium (ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR) of endoneurial CAPILLARIES. The perineurium acts as a diffusion barrier, but ion permeability at the blood-nerve barrier is still higher than at the BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER.
Neuralgia, Postherpetic
Pain in nerves, frequently involving facial SKIN, resulting from the activation the latent varicella-zoster virus (HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN). The two forms of the condition preceding the pain are HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; and HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS. Following the healing of the rashes and blisters, the pain sometimes persists.
Ischemic Contracture
A type of permanent damage to muscles and nerves that results from prolonged lack blood flow to those tissues. It is characterized by shortening and stiffening of the muscles.
