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UCLA, USC get $2M to develop stroke center network in Southland
Stroke is the second leading cause of death in Los Angeles County and the fourth in the U.S. In order to cut those numbers, it's imperative that new treatments be developed and refined for stroke prevention, acute therapy and recovery after stroke.   Now, a three-way partnership between the UCLA Stroke Center at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the USC Comprehensive Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center at Keck Medicine of USC, and UC Irvine has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address these three stroke priorities.   Together, the three universities will form the Los A...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 15, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Researcher Studies Statins for Stroke Therapy
Stacy Pigott A $2.8 million grant may help develop an improved therapeutic treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients to let them recover faster with fewer long-term complications. The protocol hinges on effectively delivering statins to the brain, where their neuroprotective properties can help save tissue damaged by stroke. Aug. 7, 2020 University of Arizona Health Sciencesnhg-PATRICK-RONALDSON_DSC6492-web.jpg Patrick Ronaldson (right), associate professor in the College of Medicine – Tucson's Department of Pharmacology, and doctoral students Erica Williams and Robert Betterton discuss their latest researc...
Source: The University of Arizona: Health - August 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mittank Source Type: research

Cholesterol buildup in brain presents new target to reduce dementia risk from stroke
University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers suggest the risk of developing dementia after a stroke might be reduced by a drug that could help immune cells process the cholesterol-rich debris generated by a stroke. Today University of Arizona Health SciencesHealthBIO5College of Medicine - TucsonCollege of PharmacyExploration Media contact(s)Anna Christensen University of Arizona Health Sciencesachristensen@arizona.edu520-626-7383University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers discovered a potential treatment to reduce the risk of post-stroke dementia, which may be influenced by the immune response to dead bra...
Source: The University of Arizona: Health - January 19, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mittank Source Type: research

Blood test identifies risk of disease linked to stroke and dementia
A UCLA-led study has found that levels of six proteins in the blood can be used to gauge a person ’s risk for cerebral small vessel disease, or CSVD, a brain disease that affects an estimated 11 million older adults in the U.S. CSVD can lead to dementia and stroke, but currently it can only be diagnosed with an MRI scan of the brain.“The hope is that this will spawn a novel diagnostic test that clinicians can start to use as a quantitative measure of brain health in people who are at risk of developing cerebral small vessel disease,” said Dr. Jason Hinman, a UCLA assistant professor of neurology and lead author of t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 1, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Interprofessional learning on a stroke unit
This article outlines the development of a practice‐based interprofessional learning initiative on a stroke unit. The World Health Organization has advocated that future health care professionals should be ‘collaborative practice ready’ MethodsA half‐day seminar was developed by King's College London in conjunction with an interprofessional clinical team from the Stroke Unit at St Thomas' Hospital. Students were assigned discipline‐specific supervisors who allocated them to care for a patient within the confines of their usual professional role. They were asked to present the patient to a mixed‐discipline grou...
Source: The Clinical Teacher - June 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Jayne Frisby, Zehra Mehdi, Jonathan Birns Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Usefulness of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of functional outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke after thrombolysis therapy
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2021 Jun 29;34(6):664-667. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2021.1938471. eCollection 2021.ABSTRACTIn stroke patients, a high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) has been associated with poor functional outcome at 3 months, higher mortality, and a higher hemorrhagic transformation. We assessed the role of NLR in patients with acute ischemic stroke who received thrombolysis. The charts of 98 patients treated between 2015 and 2019 were retrospectively reviewed. The mean NLR was compared using an independent Student's t test. At 3 months, a good functional outcome was seen in 31 patients (32%) and a poor func...
Source: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings - November 4, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Sadaf Majid Omair Ul Haq Lodhi Asfandyar Khan Niazi Somair Ul Haq Lodhi Maimoona Siddiqui Source Type: research

Brain computerized tomography reading in suspected acute ischemic stroke patients: what are essentials for medical students?
Few systematic methods prioritize the image education in medical students (MS). We hope to develop a checklist of brain computerized tomography (CT) reading in patients with suspected acute ischemic stroke (AI...
Source: BMC Medical Education - September 18, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chi-Hung Liu, Cheng-Ting Hsiao, Ting-Yu Chang, Yeu-Jhy Chang, Sheng-Han Kuo, Chun-Wei Chang, Chi-Jen Chen, Chien-Fu Chen, Po-Liang Cheng, Shy-Chyi Chin, Te-Fa Chiu, Jung-Lung Hsu, Peng-Wei Hsu, Tsong-Hai Lee, Chih-Hsiang Liao, Chun-Jen Lin & hellip; Tags: Research article Source Type: research

Brain rewires itself after damage or injury, life scientists discover
When the brain's primary "learning center" is damaged, complex new neural circuits arise to compensate for the lost function, say life scientists from UCLA and Australia who have pinpointed the regions of the brain involved in creating those alternate pathways — often far from the damaged site.   The research, conducted by UCLA's Michael Fanselow and Moriel Zelikowsky in collaboration with Bryce Vissel, a group leader of the neuroscience research program at Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, appears this week in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - May 15, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Ultrasound imaging in teaching cardiac physiology
This laboratory session provides hands-on experience for students to visualize the beating human heart with ultrasound imaging. Simple views are obtained from which students can directly measure important cardiac dimensions in systole and diastole. This allows students to derive, from first principles, important measures of cardiac function, such as stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac output. By repeating the measurements from a subject after a brief exercise period, an increase in stroke volume and ejection fraction are easily demonstrable, potentially with or without an increase in left ventricular end-diastoli...
Source: AJP: Advances in Physiology Education - July 20, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Johnson, C. D., Montgomery, L. E. A., Quinn, J. G., Roe, S. M., Stewart, M. T., Tansey, E. A. Tags: HOW WE TEACH: CLASSROOM AND LABORATORY RESEARCH PROJECTS Source Type: research

Ultrasound imaging in teaching cardiac physiology.
Abstract This laboratory session provides hands-on experience for students to visualize the beating human heart with ultrasound imaging. Simple views are obtained from which students can directly measure important cardiac dimensions in systole and diastole. This allows students to derive, from first principles, important measures of cardiac function, such as stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac output. By repeating the measurements from a subject after a brief exercise period, an increase in stroke volume and ejection fraction are easily demonstrable, potentially with or without an increase in left ventri...
Source: Adv Physiol Educ - July 25, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Johnson CD, Montgomery LE, Quinn JG, Roe SM, Stewart MT, Tansey EA Tags: Adv Physiol Educ Source Type: research

Hookah smoking raises cardiovascular risk comparable to traditional cigarette smoking, study finds
This study is believed to be the first to investigate the effects of hookah smoking on stiffening of the arteries. Studies have shown that as cigarette use continues to decline, hookah smoking is rising, especially among youth and particularly among college students.“We know that flavored tobacco products are frequently the first kind of tobacco product used by youth,” Rezk-Hanna said. “One of the major issues with hookah is the fact that the tobacco is flavored with fruit, candy and alcohol flavors, making hookah the most popular flavored tobacco produc t among this audience.”According to the Food and Drug Admini...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 2, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Scientists jump-start two people ’s brains after coma
In 2016, a team led by UCLA ’s Martin Monti reported that a 25-year-old man recovering from a coma had made remarkable progress following a treatment to jump-start his brain using ultrasound.Wired U.K. called the news one of the  best things that happened in 2016. At the time, Monti acknowledged that although he was encouraged by the outcome, it was possible the scientists had gotten a little lucky.Now, Monti and colleagues report that two more patients with severe brain injuries — both had been in what scientists call a long-term “minimally conscious state” — have made impressive progress thanks to the same te...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 27, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news