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Shirley Sahrmann
Professor of cell biology and physiology
Clinically, Sahrmann specializes in musculoskeletal pain syndromes and neuromuscular dysfunction syndromes. Her research interests include motor control and the classification of musculoskeletal pain syndromes.
Expertise: musculoskeletal pain syndromes, neuromuscular dysfunction syndromes, motor control
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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Linda Van Dillen
Assistant professor of physical therapy
Clinically, Van Dillen specializes in musculoskeletal pain problems, especially low back pain problems. Her research focuses on movement system factors contributing to musculoskeletal pain problems.
Expertise: musculoskeletal, low back pain, movement system
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology
Gutmann is the founder and director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinical Program, which is dedicated to treating the common inherited tumor predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis (NF). Individuals with NF have an increased risk of developing brain tumors and other cancers. As national leader in the ...
Expertise: Brain tumors, cancer genetics, neurofibromatosis, molecular genetics, neurosciences, neurology
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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Alexander W. Dromerick
Associate Professor of Neurology and Occupational Therapy
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Dromerick is known for his clinical and laboratory research on rehabilitation methods for stroke patients, including a new technique called constraint-induced movement therapy.
Expertise: stroke, neurology, brain injury, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, constraint-induced movement therapy, brain imaging, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu
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David M. Holtzman
Head of the Department of Neurology
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Holtzman is known as one of the leading experts in researching the underlying mechanisms that lead to Alzheimer's disease in an effort to improve diagnosis and treatment. In addition to seeing patients at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the Memory Diagnostic Center, Holtzman leads a research ...
Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, neurology, molecular biology, monoclonal antibodies, amyloid plaques, perinatal stroke
Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / reckessg@wustl.edu
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Assessing head injuries
WUSM doctors use neurocognitive test to quickly identify concussions
Nov. 29,
2007 -- In most hospital emergency rooms, patients with head injuries typically receive computed tomography (CT) scans to assess the damage. But brain injuries that lead to concussions rarely show up as abnormalities on such scans. So Washington University physicians at Barnes Hospital's Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center have decided to go one step further. They are the only doctors in the St. Louis area who give a simple neurocognitive test to head injury patients to quickly identify concussions.
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A valuable explanation
West Nile virus' spread through nerve cells linked to serious complication
Oct. 17,
2007 -- Scientists believe they have found an explanation for a puzzling and serious complication of West Nile virus infection. Researchers showed that the virus can enter a nerve cell, replicate and move on to infect other nearby nerve cells. Viruses traveling this infectious pathway can break into the central nervous system, triggering a condition known as acute flaccid paralysis that leaves one or more limbs limp and unresponsive.
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'As normal as possible'
Doctor becomes unwilling expert on ALS
Aug. 31,
2007 -- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurological disorder — better known as Lou Gehrig's disease — that causes muscles to waste away. It hasn't, however, deterred the determination of WUSM physician Jason Goldfeder. Since his diagnosis, Goldfeder has continued to teach students at the School of Medicine. See video of his story at ksdk.com.
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Disabled gamers want more than 'fluffy' choices
Chicago Tribune
April 10,
2007 -- About 10 to 20 percent of the video gaming population is disabled, but they get little attention from the Nintendos, Sonys and Microsofts of the world. Now, academia is trying to show gamemakers that with a little thought and ingenuity, their titles can be played -- and purchased by -- gamers they have never courted before.
A U. Illinois instructor is organizing a game design seminar to build a socially oriented video game for players with quadriplegia. She hopes such hands-on design work will encourage gamemakers to keep the disabled in mind while creating their titles -- and show them how.
Perhaps the ultimate game controller operates on brain waves. A teenager being studied for epilepsy last fall at WUSTL was able to play "Space Invaders" using his thoughts.
Those findings could lead one day to artificial limbs that respond to human thought.
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Smoking weakens tendon-to-bone healing
United Press International
and 1 others
Oct. 19,
2006 -- WUSTL researchers led by orthopaedic surgery professor Leesa Galatz say exposure to nicotine delays tendon-to-bone healing, suggesting the cause of failure of rotator-cuff repair following surgery, according to the study published in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
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Teenager moves video icons by imagination
United Press International
and 2 others
Oct. 11,
2006 -- A U.S. boy has become the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game using only the signals from his brain to make movements.
WUSTL researchers led by neurological surgery professor Eric Leuthardt and biomedical engineering professor Daniel Moran say the boy's achievement might lead to creation of biomedical devices that can control artificial limbs, enabling the movement of a prosthesis by just thinking about it.
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Funding for Alzheimer's research is key, scientists say
Kansas City Star
and 17 others
July 5,
2006 -- Scientists who study Alzheimer's disease say they are on the brink of finding treatments to slow or stop it.
A few weeks ago, Congress voted to reduce funding for research on Alzheimer's disease.
WUSTL scientists commenting are neurology professor Anne Fagan Niven, neurology professor and chair David Holtzman, and Tom Meuser, director of education and rural outreach at WUSTL's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
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Mice offer insight into new pain drugs
Associated Press
and 36 others
April 6,
2006 -- WUSTL researchers studying mice said they have found key factors in the body that could lead to making better pain-reducing drugs.
WUSTL scientist Robert Gereau led the team that studied mice that were missing a specific potassium gene that regulates pain messages sent from the spinal cord to the brain.
The research advances a previous Harvard University study and will be published in the journal Neuron.
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