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Welcome New Faculty!
New Clinicians Join Columbia Neurology
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Research | Patient Care
Drug Trial Gives Hope to Children with SMA
At the Cure SMA Annual Spinal Muscular Atrophy Conference held at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA this...
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Research | Patient Care
Despite the Headlines, We Don't Yet Know If Anticholinergic Drugs Contribute to Dementia Risk
There are a number of things that can increase the risk of dementia: age, of course, as well as certain genetic profiles and behaviors such as smoking and drinking. Some of the same things that...
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Research | Patient Care
Antisense Therapies Pose a Regulatory Conundrum
A wave of customized medicines is coming, but are drug agencies ready?
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Research | Patient Care
Hidden Consciousness Detectable with EEG Just Days after Brain Injury
Nearly 1 in 7 brain-injured patients show early evidence of hidden consciousness—as revealed by EEG analysis—and are more likely to recover, researchers at Columbia have found.
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Research | Patient Care
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) Target: Honor Roll Elite Plus Gold Plus Quality Awards
all three Columbia Neurology stroke programs—the Columbia Comprehensive Stroke Center at NYP/CUIMC (led by Drs. Randolph Marshall,...
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Research | Patient Care
Scientists Seek To Discover Why Some Minds Resist The Damage That Comes With Old Age
Researchers at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) ...
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Research | Patient Care
ColumbiaDoctors Neurologists Named to NYMag “Best Doctors 2019”
Congratulations to Drs. Cigdem Akman (Child Neurology), Mitchell Elkind, ...
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Research | Patient Care
When ‘Right to try’ isn’t Enough: Congress Wants a Single ALS Patient to get a Therapy Never Tested in Humans
Dr. Neil Shneider, the head of Columbia University’s ALS clinic, described a new therapy known as an antisense oligonucleotide that, at least in theory, could...
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Research | Patient Care
Sleep Is the Most Productive Part of the Day
“Some people think of it as a waste of time — as turning the brain off,” says Dr. Carl Bazil, director of the Division of...
