ANA News
2020-07-08 – ANA Member Stephen Silberstein, MD, director of the Headache Center at Jefferson University in Philadelphia, is featured in a Well and Good article discussing headaches and migraines. “A migraine is a headache, but it has certain characteristics; a Picasso and a Rembrandt are both paintings, but…
2020-07-07 – The House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee released text of its draft FY 21 spending bill on July 6, ahead of the subcommittee’s 5 p.m. markup today. The draft bill provides a total of $47 billion for NIH in FY 2021, which the committee-prepared summary describes as an increase of $5…
2020-07-02 – National Institute on Aging recently published an article on brain donation and the gift that it represents to future generations. Those who choose to become brain donors make a profound commitment to the advancement of scientific research. Even a single donated brain can generate a huge scientific…
2020-06-23 – A message from the American Brain Coalition: Now is the time for ABC members to rally! We urge you to contact your Representatives to join the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) created the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus to…
2020-06-18 – This Friday is a particularly appropriate day to take some time for contemplation, as many in our community and around the country mark the 155th anniversary of the day when enslaved people in Texas learned that they had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation — two years after it was signed…
2020-06-16 – For Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month, ANA interviewed Dr. Dongming Cai, an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Staff Physician for James J. Peters VA Medical Center. What does the public need to understand about Alzheimer's …
2020-06-15 – ANA2020 is the top meeting for academic neurologists and neuroscientists at every career stage to convene over groundbreaking research and best practices for success in the field. This year’s virtual event, set for October 4-9, ensures you won’t miss out on the latest neurological research and…
2020-06-10 – In a recent ANA Webinar, Dr. Eric Landsness interviewed Dr. Shannon Agner, a pediatric neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and Dr. Chetan Bettegowda, a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University, regarding how they are pivoting their research efforts toward COVID‐19. The takeaways of…
2020-06-09 – Over the past two weeks since George Floyd’s death, I have struggled to find the right words to express my personal anger and outrage, and especially my sense of despondency that our “community” is not really a community at all, but fractured tribes, with the embers of discontent fanned, literally…