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Stroke Recovery
Stroke affects 730,000 Americans each year and is the leading cause of adult disability. Stroke also can mean a dramatic change in a person's ability to live a normal life. These experts are available to discuss the medical science behind strokes and the therapies available to stroke victims.
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Carolyn Baum
Professor in the Program of Occupational Therapy and Neurology and Elias Michael Director of the Program in Occupational Therapy
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Baum's research focuses on enabling older adults to live independently. Rather than focus on people's deficits, she seeks to understand what a person with chronic disease or disability can do. Her work has been recognized by funding from the National Institutes of Health, The James S. McDonnell Foundation, ...
Expertise: aging, enabling independent living, return of function following stroke
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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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Alison M. Goate
Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry
A professor of genetics in psychiatry, Alison Goate is a molecular geneticist who discovered the first genetic mutation that causes a form of Alzheimer's disease.
Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, genetics, psychiatry, genetic mutation, amyloid-beta, disease-causing mutations
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@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
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John Holloszy
Professor of Medicine
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Holloszy is a pioneer in understanding the impact of exercise training on the quality of life of the elderly. One of the leading figures in gerontology research, his seminal studies include investigations into whether exercise reverses some of the deterioration in functional capacity that has traditionally ...
Expertise: gerontology research, calorie restriction
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Breaking down strokes
Drugs for Parkinson's disease may ease stroke-related disability
April 11,
2007 -- Scientists have untangled two similar disabilities that often afflict stroke patients, in the process revealing that one may be treatable with drugs for Parkinson's disease. Researchers at the School of Medicine showed that stroke damage in a brain region known as the putamen is strongly linked to motor neglect, a condition that makes patients slow to move toward the left side.
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Studying connections after brain injury
Stroke damage keeps brain regions from 'talking' to each other
March 14,
2007 -- Neuroscientists at the School of Medicine have linked a common post-stroke disability to impaired communication between brain regions. In the March 15 issue of Neuron, researchers report a tight correlation between the degree to which communication was blocked and the severity of patients' symptoms.
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What's the matter with Grandpa?
Online book helps children understand the effects of stroke
March 12,
2007 --
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| An illustration from "When Grandpa Comes Home: A Story About Stroke," an online book that teaches children how to cope when a relative suffers a stroke |
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Speedy treatment is essential to saving lives and preventing brain damage during a stroke. But the rapid pace of events also can leave patients and family members confused about what has happened and what to expect. That's especially true for children whose parents or grandparents have a stroke. Now an online book is available to teach children about strokes at www.strokecenter.org/patients. More...
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The hidden dangers of belly fat
MSNBC.com
May 24,
2006 -- While we all know that excess pounds increase your risk of certain diseases, you may not realize that where you carry the weight makes a big difference. Researchers have found that abdominal fat could be even more hazardous to your health.
WUSTL nutrition expert Samuel Klein, director of the Center for Human Nutrition, explains why.
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In a stroke patient, doctor sees power of brain to recover
Wall Street Journal
Nov. 30,
2005 -- Story on the growing interest in neurointensive care treatment for stroke patients. Article mentions a 2001 critical care study by WUSTL researchers Michael Diringer and Dorothy Edwards, who studied records of more than 40,000 patients with bleeding in their brains. Patients in a regular intensive-care unit were 3.4 times as likely to die as patients in a neurointensive unit, after adjusting for the severity of the bleeding.
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Report: Most Missouri diabetics at risk for complications
Associated Press State & Local Wire
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Sept. 30,
2005 -- A national study released Thursday shows diabetics in Missouri, and especially those in St. Louis, aren't doing such a good job reaching target blood sugar levels.
WUSTL medical professor and diabetes specialist Charles Kilo Sr. is teaming up with Mayor Francis Slay to raise public awareness of what Kilo calls a "major medical crisis and budgetary crisis." Slay has declared next week Diabetes Control Week to encourage diabetics to take steps to better manage their disease.
Kilo pioneered the theory 30 years ago that controlling blood sugar levels could delay or prevent life-threatening complications like heart disease and blindness in diabetics. He and a colleague refuted evidence that the complications resulted from genetics. They proved they're related to the duration of diabetes and the degree of blood sugar control.
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Two prominent heart docs still like Taxus/Cypher equally
Wall Street Journal
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March 10,
2005 -- Two prominent U.S. heart physicians said there was nothing in the drug-eluting stent trials comparing J&J's Cypher stent to Boston Scientific Corp.'s (BSX) Taxus stent, that would dissuade them from using either of the two available products. WUSTL cardiologist John Lasala, who also attended the conference, comments.
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