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Exposure to antiepileptic drug in womb linked to autism risk
Jan. 30, 2013 Children whose mothers take the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate while pregnant are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders, suggests a small study published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
Robot allows ‘remote presence’ in programming brain and spine stimulators
Jan. 16, 2013 With the rapidly expanding use of brain and spinal cord stimulation therapy (neuromodulation), new “remote presence” technologies may help to meet the demand for experts to perform stimulator programming, reports a study in the January issue of Neurosurgery.
Surgeons may use hand gestures to manipulate MRI images in OR
Jan. 10, 2013 Doctors may soon be using a system in the operating room that recognizes hand gestures as commands to tell a computer to browse and display medical images of the patient during a surgery.
Long-term consequences for those suffering traumatic brain injury
Jan. 4, 2013 Researchers from the University of South Florida and colleagues at the James A.
Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Saharan Africa
Jan. 4, 2013 The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demonstrate that these brain infections are linked to climate.
How deadly skin cancer spreads into other parts of the body
Jan. 3, 2013 After recently announcing success in eliminating melanoma metastasis in laboratory experiments, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have made another important discovery in understanding the process by which the gene mda-9/syntenin contributes to metastasis in melanoma (the spread of skin cancer) and possibly a variety of other cancers.
Second impact syndrome in a high school football player: Researchers use imaging findings to chronicle new details
Jan. 1, 2013 In the January 2013 issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics , physicians at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Northwest Radiology Network (Indianapolis) report on the case of a 17-year-old high school football player with second impact syndrome (SIS). A rare and devastating traumatic brain injury, SIS occurs when a person — most often a teenager — sustains a second head injury before recovery from an earlier head injury is complete.
Spinal cord injury: Human cells derived from stem cells restore movement in animal models
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2011) For the first time, scientists discovered that a specific type of human cell, generated from stem cells and transplanted into spinal cord injured rats, provide tremendous benefit, not only repairing damage to the nervous system but helping the animals regain locomotor function as well. The study, published March 2 in the journal PLoS ONE , focuses on human astrocytes — the major support cells in the central nervous system — and indicates that transplantation of these cells represents a potential new avenue for the treatment of spinal cord injuries and other central nervous system disorders.
MRIs reveal signs of brain injuries not seen in CT scans
Dec. 18, 2012 Hospital MRIs may be better at predicting long-term outcomes for people with mild traumatic brain injuries than CT scans, the standard technique for evaluating such injuries in the emergency room, according to a clinical trial led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH)
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