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ColumbiaDoctors Neurologists Named to NYMag “Best Doctors 2019”
Congratulations to Drs. Cigdem Akman (Child Neurology), Mitchell Elkind, ...
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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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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...
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Wings Over Wall Street honored Dr. Neil Shneider with The Diamond Award
At the Wings Over Wall Street gala for the Muscular Dystrophy Association's (MDA) research program on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Dr. Neil...
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Dr. Serge Przedborski Receives 2019 Charles W. Bohmfalk Award
At the graduation ceremony for the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) Class of 2019, Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD, the Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology...
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Irving Institute Announces 2019 Irving Scholars
The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, together with Dean Lee Goldman, recently announced Dr. Jose Gutierrez-Contreras, assistant professor of neurology in the Division of...
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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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Welcome New Faculty!
Welcome New Faculty!
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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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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...
