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Research | Patient Care
25-year-old Faces Rare form of ALS that took her Twin, but Experimental Drug Offers Hope
The FUS P525L mutation is extremely rare, according to Dr. Neil Shneider, who runs the ALS clinic at...
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Research | Patient Care
Welcome New Faculty!
Welcome New Faculty!
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Patient Care
Bringing Physicians Up to Speed on Precision Medicine
Precision medicine has arrived, but many physicians do not have the training or time to incorporate genetic sequencing technologies into everyday practice. In two articles published online in the ...
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Patient Care
The Arts Dispel Medical Students’ Qualms About Dementia
In 2008, as a behavioral neurology fellow at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, James Noble, MD, attended programs for people with dementia and their caregivers at the...
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Research | Patient Care
Impaired Sense of Smell in the Elderly Is Linked With Risk of Death
Early, small-scale experiments by neurologist William Kreisl show that a strong sense of smell can often rule out Alzheimer’s, but impaired smell may be related to...
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Research | Patient Care
Luke Perry and John Singleton Remind us that Strokes can Strike Younger Adults too
Mitchell Elkind, a neurologist at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, spoke with the Los Angeles Times about how to reduce your...
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Research | Patient Care
Doctors Have More Time Than Thought To Treat Stroke Patients, Study Suggests
Time is the most crucial element when it comes to treating patients who are experiencing a stroke -- and a new study suggests that that crucial window could be a little longer than previously...
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Research | Patient Care
Midlife Dementia
Dr. Edward (Ted) Huey was featured on a CBS This Morning segment recently about frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the third most common type of neurodegenerative...
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Congratulations 2019 Mujeres Destecada Recipient Wendy S. Vargas, MD
Congratulations 2019 Mujeres Destecada Recipient
Wendy S. Vargas, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
Program Leader, Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis & Neuroimmunology
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Research | Patient Care
Hundreds Turn Out for Inaugural Autism Awareness Event
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), NewYork-Presbyterian (NYP), and NYP’s Center for Autism and the Developing Brain held an inaugural autism awareness community outreach fair on...
