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2018-06-29 – The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) has received approval from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) to offer a certificate in the subspecialty of Neurocritical Care. The medical specialty of Neurocritical Care is devoted to the comprehensive multisystem care of…
2018-06-28 – ANA Fellow and Scientific Program Advisory Committee Chair Dr. Elizabeth Ross shared her insight into the latest therapies for treating depression in patients with movement-related neurological disorders in the Mental Health special section of USA TODAY. Read the article: New Treatment Options Now…
2018-06-27 – For Gwyneth Card, a group leader at the Janelia Research Campus, scaring flies creates an opportunity to peer inside their minds — and ultimately a path to peering inside our own. Learn more from STAT: In startled fruit flies, hints of how our brain circuits work — and fail
2018-06-26 – The Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee today approved by voice vote its FY 2019 spending bill. While full details will not be available until the committee releases bill text and report language, according to a committee-prepared summary, the bill would provide “$39.1 billion,…
2018-06-26 – Neuroscientists have scoured the genomic data of hundreds of thousands of people — and turned up some new intel into the genetic roots of 25 brain disorders. Learn more in Science Magazine: Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain
2018-06-25 – Analysis of large data sets from post-mortem brain samples of people with and without Alzheimer’s disease has revealed new evidence that viral species, particularly herpesviruses, may have a role in Alzheimer’s disease biology. Researchers funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of…
2018-06-22 – Wielding electrical currents, scientists have helped restore some lost movements in rats that had experienced strokes. The stimulation artificially bolstered the low-frequency oscillations in neurons in the primary motor cortex that are weakened in some stroke patients but are key in the…
2018-06-21 – The World Health Organization has unveiled the 11th version of its International Classification of Diseases, which clinicians use to track injuries, diseases, and causes of death around the world. Learn more: New health codes for clinicians around the world
2018-06-19 – Dr. Alice Flaherty of Massachusetts General Hospital has been a pioneer in merging psychiatry and neurology. Along the way, Flaherty, who has struggled with mental illness herself, has built a reputation for taking on patients other doctors have given up on, in many cases after the doctors …
2018-06-18 – The National Institutes of Health has selected 37 talented students for the Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP). The research training program allows medical, dental, and veterinary students to pause their university studies to live on the intramural campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and…