Course being offered at March 2018 USCAP annual meeting: Non-neoplastic surgical neuropathology that can be mistaken for neoplasia
SC07 - Surgical Neuropathology - The Other StuffThursday, March 22, 2018 - 8:00 am - 11:30 amThis Short Course session includes up to a half-hour break.Session Credits:3 CME and 3 SAMsFacultyBette K. Kleinschmidt-DeMasters, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CORichard A. Prayson, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OHAnthony T. Yachnis, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FLCourse DescriptionThe majority of cases encountered in surgical neuropathology represent neoplasms. Subsequently, most pathologist, when confronted with a surgical neuropathology case, are usually “thinking tumor” and conjuring up differential dia...
Source: neuropathology blog - February 28, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: meetings Source Type: blogs
Next in clinical practice: Automated real-time detection of seizures via wearable EMG devices
CONCLUSIONS: The performance of the wearable EMG device fulfilled the requirements of patients: it detected GTCS with a sensitivity exceeding 90% and detection latency within 30 seconds.
CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE: This study provides Class II evidence that for people with a history of GTCS, a wearable EMG device accurately detects GTCS (sensitivity 93.8%, false alarm rate 0.67/d).
The Study in Context
10 neurotechnologies about to transform brain enhancement and brain health
Five reasons the future of brain enhancement is digital, pervasive and (hopefully) bright
Monitoring neurological activity to detect epil...
Source: SharpBrains - February 28, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology automated clinical practice diagnostic electromyography false alarms latency medication neurology real-time detection seizure detection sensitivity wearable wearable EMG Source Type: blogs
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Hope for stubborn depression
Depression is the leading cause of disability in the United States among people ages 15 to 44. While there are many effective treatments for depression, first-line approaches such as antidepressants and psychotherapy do not work for everyone. In fact, approximately two-thirds of people with depression don’t get adequate relief from the first antidepressant they try. After 2 months of treatment, at least some symptoms will remain for these individuals, and each subsequent medication tried is actually less likely to help than the one prior.
What can people with depression do when they do not respond to first-line treatment...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adam P. Stern, MD Tags: Anxiety and Depression Behavioral Health Brain and cognitive health Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 19th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - February 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Development of Exosome Delivery as a Regenerative Therapy Continues Apace
If many stem cell therapies produce their benefits largely through the signaling generated by the transplanted cells, in a brief window of time before these cells die, unable to integrate into the local tissue, then why not skip the cells entirely and just deliver the signals? This is made an easier prospect by the fact that a great deal of cell to cell signaling takes the form of extracellular vesicles such as exosomes, tiny membrane-bound packages of various molecules. Thus researchers don't need to completely map and understand the entire set of signals used in order to recreate most of the signaling effects of stem cel...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 16, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Halo Neuroscience ’s Headset Zaps Your Brain To Train It
In conclusion, I would advise other adopters to just keep in mind that the effects may not be what you expected… so keep an open mind! The gains may not be immediately noticeable, but they may come in unexpected ways over time. Just as in weight loss, there’s no magical solution without putting in the work and mindfully approaching the problem.
Halo Neuroscience homepage…
Learn more about Halo Sport safety… (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - February 13, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Neurology Rehab Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Embrace Seizure Detection System Cleared in U.S.
The Embrace seizure monitoring watch from Empatica, a company with offices in Cambridge, MA and Milan, Italy, won clearance from the FDA. The device is worn like a watch, continuously monitoring not only the wrist movements, but also electrodermal activity that signals stress, to detect signs of an oncoming or existing seizures. An artificial intelligence-based learning system works in the background to spot grand mal and generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
When seizure activity is detected, the device sends out signals via the patient’s smartphone to caregivers, notifying them of the situation. The data related to th...
Source: Medgadget - February 9, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Neurology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
What If Amazon Ran Hospitals?
What if Dr. Alexa offered you the next appointment with your doctor in the Amazon Clinic? What if you could buy your prescription drugs in Amazon’s online pharmacy? What if you could get your personalized plaster cast from the 3D Printing Department? In light of the recent moves of Amazon and other tech giants in the healthcare field, we imagined what it would look like if Amazon operated an entire hospital.
Tech giants move into healthcare
Facebook, Google, and Amazon are aiming for new horizons. The playfield must be too small for them solely on the technology markets. They certainly have the capacity to move into n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design 3d printing amazon artificial intelligence digital health digital technology Innovation Personalized medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
Today's Google Doodle Honors Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield
Quoted fromKN Smith ofForbes:Today ' s Google Doodle celebrates the 127th birthday of Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who developed a groundbreaking epilepsy treatment called the Montreal Procedure.In the 1930s, while working as a neurosurgeon at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, Penfield had a patient who reported smelling burned toast just before her seizures. He realized that he could use that hallucinatory scent to pinpoint the part of the brain that was seizing - and put a stop to it.With the patient wide awake, but under local anesthetic, he used electrodes to stimulate parts of her exp...
Source: neuropathology blog - January 26, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
How Your Brain Remembers
Can you remember what you had for dinner last night? How do you do it?byAlzheimer's Reading RoomThe temporal lobe,which contains the hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex are important to episodic memory. This enables us to learn new information andremember recent events.The hippocampus is one of the first brain structures damaged in Alzheimer's disease.How Alzheimer's Affects the 4 Memory Systems of the BrainSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading - This is a Free Service - Join NowHow Your Brain Remembers What You Had for Dinner Last NightUC San Diego researchers find small sets of hippocampal neurons activate for each epi...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - January 22, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: brain memory memory systems of the brain remember research Source Type: blogs
Medical marijuana
There are few subjects that can stir up stronger emotions among doctors, scientists, researchers, policy makers, and the public than medical marijuana. Is it safe? Should it be legal? Decriminalized? Has its effectiveness been proven? What conditions is it useful for? Is it addictive? How do we keep it out of the hands of teenagers? Is it really the “wonder drug” that people claim it is? Is medical marijuana just a ploy to legalize marijuana in general?
These are just a few of the excellent questions around this subject, questions that I am going to studiously avoid so we can focus on two specific areas: why do patient...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Peter Grinspoon, MD Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Drugs and Supplements Health Pain Management Source Type: blogs
New and Improved Power Delivery for Implants: Interview with Cambridge Consultants ’ John Genova
As technological advances in implant design get more and more impressive, one hurdle seems to persist. How can you efficiently deliver power within the body? Many contemporary implants rely on single-use batteries while others require regular recharging, a process that is generally a frustrating one. Using a bulky charging device, one must synchronize the external inductive coil with the one inside the implant, eventually taking a few hours to fully charge and usually leading to some tissue heating and discomfort around the implant. Thus, new solutions that optimize power delivery while decreasing charge duration and user...
Source: Medgadget - January 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mohammad Saleh Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Radiology Professor Christopher Hess Ascends Radiology Chair at UCSF
Christopher Hess, MD, PhD, has become University of California San Francisco ’s (UCSF) new chair of the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and the Alexander Margulis Distinguished Professor of Radiology as of January 1, 2018. He’s taking over for Ronald Arenson, MD, who served as the department’s chair from 1992 to 2017, and presided as the Alexander Margul is Distinguished Professor. Since 2008, Hess has been an integral facet in UCSF ’s radiology community. He’s a professor of Radiology and Neurology and chief of Neurology at the university, the associate chair for quality and safety, and the associ...
Source: radRounds - January 5, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Admissions of inequality: emergency hospital use for children and young people
Nuffield Trust -This briefing looks at the relationship between deprivation and the use of emergency hospital care by children and young people in England. It aims to describe and highlight areas of inequality and to explore how they have changed over time. As well as looking at the overall patterns of emergency hospital use, it focuses in particular on three common conditions – asthma, diabetes and epilepsy – where more timely and effective primary, community or outpatient care could prevent admissions.BriefingNuffield Trust - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 2, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Amygdala Stimulation in the Absence of Emotional Experience Enhances Memory for Neutral Objects
Theamygdala is a small structure located within the medial temporal lobes (MTL), consisting of a discrete set of nuclei. It has a reputation as the “fear center” or “emotion center” of the brain, although it performsmultiple functions. One well-known activity of the amygdala, via its connections with otherMTL areas, involves an enhancement of memories that are emotional in nature (compared to neutral). Humans and rodents with damaged or inactivated amygdalae fail to show this emotion-related enhancement, although memory for neutral items is relatively preserved (Adolphs et al., 1997;Phelps& Anderson, 1997;McGau...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 23, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
