ANA News
2020-09-18 – In conjunction with National Concussion Awareness Day and National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month, the ANA talks with Ramon R. Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD, Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Center at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He discusses the massive…
2020-09-16 – The American Brain Coalition will be hosting a free global webinar on Thursday, 24 September from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT. The webinar entitled " Action & Potential in Outreach, Education & Research!" will discuss how to perform neuroscience outreach without specialist equipment or taking the…
2020-09-16 – Please join the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research and the Coalition for Health Funding for the first two virtual briefings in the series Medical Research & COVID-19: Updates from NIH Institutes & Centers, for coalition members and Congressional staff. NIH-supported medical research across…
2020-09-11 – We're so proud of the ANA members who have authored articles recently published in the Annals of Neurology: Intact Brain Network Function in an Unresponsive Patient with COVID ‐19 Concerning Vision Therapy and Ocular Motor Training in Mild TBI PARAMAGNETIC RIM LESIONS ARE SPECIFIC TO MULTIPLE…
2020-09-08 – The ANA journal highlights two articles, "Multidisciplinary Guidance to Manage Comatose Patients with Severe COVID‐19" and "Intact Brain Network Function in an Unresponsive Patient with COVID‐19". Read both articles open access in Annals of Neurology.
2020-09-01 – ANA member Dr. Kenneth Heilman, distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida's College of Medicine, was quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal article discussing how to stay focused while working from home. Click here to read the article: https://www…
2020-08-26 – Every year 300 national organizations come together on Capitol Hill Day in support of the Rally for Medical Research. The purpose of the rally is to call on our nation's policymakers to make funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a national priority and to raise awareness about the…
2020-08-25 – MOUNT LAUREL, NJ, August 24, 2020 — The American Neurological Association (ANA), the professional organization representing the world’s top academic neurologists and neuroscientists, has announced the winners of its 2020 scientific awards, to be presented during the 145th ANA Annual Meeting, which…
2020-08-25 – In this month’s ANA Q&A Membership Spotlight, we interviewed Beau M. Ances, MD, PhD, MSc who talks about the research that has gone into HIV medicine, cognitive issues for those who are HIV positive and getting older, and how his lab’s work can be used to study the COVID-19 virus. 1. What…
2020-08-20 – On August 18, NIH issued a news release detailing a recent study on pontetnial drugs to be used to slow the progression of DIPGs. Senior author Sriram Venneti, M.D., Ph.D., and a team of researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor conducted the study. Researchers primarily…