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Columbia University Brain Health Series
“What is Brain Health and Why is it Important?" Thursday, February 14, 2019. An interactive bilingual lecture with guest speakers Kiran Thakur, MD...
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Health Check: Can Aerobic Exercise Improve Thinking Skills in Younger People?
Editor's Note: In this BBC Sounds podcast, Yaakov Stern, a professor of neuropsychology, explains the findings of his study of the cognitive effects of aerobic...
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Aerobic Exercise Good For The Brain, Says Study
Yaakov Stern, the senior author of the study, assigned 132 adults ages 20 to 67 years that have below average aerobic capacity to an aerobic program of core-...
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Aerobic Exercise Improves Cognition, Even In Young Adults
Aerobic exercise training improves cognition, even for young and middle-aged adults, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University...
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Annual VP&S Awards Ceremony
Special Recognition Award (Posthumous)—Vincent Santana, department administrator and chief financial officer, Department of Neurology
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Noninvasive Tests Help ID Seizure Site in Children with Focal Epilepsy
Naming tasks, which have helped to localize and lateralize a seizure onset region for surgery of focal epilepsy in adults, could now be as useful in children, with the recently reported success of...
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Columbia Neurology Ranked #1 in Nation in NIH Funding!
In 2018, the Department of Neurology was ranked #1 in NIH-funded research among medical school neurology programs nationwide, according to the NIH Reporter! “This achievement is...
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Preeclampsia Linked to Later Stroke Risk, Aspirin May Help
"Women at high risk of developing preeclampsia are given aspirin during pregnancy and we know this reduces their risk of developing the condition, but the aspirin is usually stopped after delivery...
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Can I Bank Cognition Now for Old Age?
The concept is called cognitive reserve. “It’s an active coping process that’s built up over a lifetime. What you do in life can contribute to it, even in older age,” says Yaakov Stern, a...
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An Experimental Procedure Could Help More Families Have Healthy Babies. But It’s Not Allowed in the U.S.
“We are breaking down a barrier that has certainly never been crossed before,” says...
