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Dr. Cigdem Akman Named Chief of Child Neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
Dr. Cigdem Akman has been named chief of child neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. An expert in child and adolescent epilepsy, Dr. Akman has served as director of...
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Can a Smell Test Sniff Out Alzheimer’s Disease?
The sense of smell is one of the first things to change as Alzheimer’s disease takes root, even before other symptoms appear. That’s raised the idea that a scratch-and-sniff test that rates an...
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Alzheimer Drugs Keep Failing, Can Big Data Help?
This week another pharmaceutical company announcedit had given up on developing an Alzheimer’s drug, and the news was not a surprise. It follows announcements just this past Mayand Februaryof...
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Poliovirus Therapy Shows Early Promise in Patients with Aggressive Brain Cancer but Questions Linger
Dr. Andrew Lassman, chief of neuro-oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is more skeptical after reviewing the results at STAT’s request. Lassman was not...
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VP&S Academy of Clinical Excellence
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Diamond and Dr. Kirk Roberts, each...
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What Do We Know about ‘Heading’ and Concussion Risk?
The CUIMC Newsroom interviewed James Noble, MD, a neurologist who studies concussion risk in athletes, about what the research says—and doesn’t say—about the dangers of heading in soccer.
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Five Myths About Alzheimer’s Disease
Older adults report that a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is the thing they most fear about their future. Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disease characterized by increasing forgetfulness and...
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An Opportunity of a Lifetime: Art2cure Fundraiser to Showcase Luxembourg Artists Alongside Rauschenberg, Liechtenstein & Sherman in New York
An Opportunity of a Lifetime: Art2cure Fundraiser to Showcase Luxembourg Artists Alongside Rauschenberg, Liechtenstein & Sherman in New York
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1st International Tremor Congress Held at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Dr. Sheng-Han Kuo organized the two-day meeting to bring together academic investigators, industries, and trainees who are interested in tremor, the most common type of movement disorder.
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First Of Kind NYC Clinic Focuses On Brain After Cardiac Arrest
More people than ever are surviving sudden cardiac arrest due to advances in critical care, which has drawn attention to the damage it inflicts on the brain, Dr. Sachin Agarwal, a neurologist at...
