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| National network of stroke centers reaches WUSM WUSTL receives $9 million to create stroke research center (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11990.html) July 8, 2008 -- The School of Medicine will receive approximately $9 million over 5 years to investigate new ways to diagnose and treat stroke. The new research center will become part of a national network of stroke centers. |
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| WUSM neurosurgeon honored Park receives Society of Neurological Surgeons' highest honor (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11957.html) June 26, 2008 --
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| Cowabunga! Surgeon repairs trauma injury from Hawaii surf (http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/8540.html) Jan. 29, 2007 -- Last July, Tim Russell and his family were enjoying a trip to Kauai, Hawaii, hiking, surfing and enjoying the sunshine. While bodysurfing in a remote area, Russell caught a wave. Then a wave caught him — slamming his head against the sand. When he came up for air, he had lost control of his arms and couldn't swim. Six months later, Russell can lift his arms overhead and out to the side with little or no pain thanks to the surgical expertise of Susan Mackinnon. |
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| Steven Petersen James S. McDonnell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in Neurology (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/502.html) Petersen is chief of the Neuropsychology Division and a pioneer in using brain imaging to identify brain regions that contribute to attention, learning, memory and language. He also investigates the effects of disease and brain damage on these cognitive processes, bridging a range of psychological ... Expertise: Neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neuropyschology, brain imaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), attention, … Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu |
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| David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D. Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/586.html) 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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| John Morris Director and Principal Investigator, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Department of Neurology (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/503.html)
John C. Morris, M.D., is the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Professor of Pathology and Immunology and of Physical Therapy, and the Director of the Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Center for Aging, the Memory and Aging Project, and the Memory Diagnostic ... Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, memory, aging, mild cognitive impairment Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu |
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| Alexander W. Dromerick Associate Professor of Neurology and Occupational Therapy (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/184.html)
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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| Dorothy Edwards Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy and Neurology (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/190.html) Edwards' research focuses on quality of life issues for individuals who have survived serious brain injury. Her research also is directed toward understanding the mechanisms which support independence and quality of life in the community of older adults, specifically minorities. Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, African Americans, stroke, quality of life, disability, brain injury Media assistance: / |
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| Understanding Sen. Kennedy's Brain Tumor
The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2008 -- Health blog on the condition of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who had a seizure and was just diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. WUSTL neurosurgery chairman Ralph Dacey is one of the experts commenting. |
| 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. |
| devised a technique on humans that for the first time shows just what the brain does when the skull accelerates
Space Daily Dec. 16, 2005 -- Mechanical engineers at WUSTL along with collaborators, have devised a technique using MRI technology that shows how the human brain reacts when the skull accelerates. The research shows that as the skull accelerates, the numerous vessels, membranes and nerves at the base of the brain, try to pull away, from the spine leading to a significant deformation in the front of the brain. Philip Bayly, Ph.D., Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor in Engineering, discussed the group's findings Nov. 10, 2005, at the annual meeting of the National Neurotrauma Society in Washington, DC. |
| Computers obey brain signals from paralyzed people ... and our reporter, too
Associated Press May 4, 2005 -- Scientists are working on early steps toward a complex but straightforward technological goal: to use electrical signals from the brain as instructions to computers and other machines, allowing paralyzed people to communicate, move around and control their environment literally without moving a muscle. When surgeons at Washington University in St. Louis, in cooperation with Wolpaw, placed tiny electrodes on the surface of the brains of four people recently, they achieved accuracies of 74 percent to 100 percent in an electronic game with just three to 24 minutes of training. |
| Patients play by power of thought
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and 20 others June 16, 2004 -- Using thought alone and with electrodes placed on the surface of the brain, four volunteers were able to control a simple video game, U.S. researchers report. Simply by thinking the word "move," the volunteers played the game. "We are using pure imagination. These people are not moving their limbs," said Eric Leuthardt, a neurosurgeon at the School of Medicine who worked on the study. Writing in the Journal of Neural Engineering, Leuthardt and Daniel Moran, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the School of Medicine, said the patients learned in minutes how to control a computer cursor. |
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