Category: Neurology And Neurosurgery
December 31, 2018 – AFM
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Anchor lead: Can characterizing acute flaccid myelitis help clinicians spot it? Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis, the mysterious illness that has stuck fear into the hearts of parents nationally, has better definition now. Matthew Elrick, a pediatric neurologist at …
October 24, 2018 – Pandemic
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Anchor lead: What’s the most likely scenario for a pandemic? Elizabeth Tracey reports This year marks the 100 year anniversary of a sobering event – the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed millions of people worldwide. Now many experts are sounding …
October 23, 2018 – AFM2
October 22, 2018 – AFM
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Anchor lead: A disturbing condition called acute flaccid myelytis is now in 22 states in the US, Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis is a condition that follows what seems to be a garden variety upper respiratory infection, causing muscle …
October 9, 2018 – Brain Stimulation and Risk
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Anchor lead: Can a finding in gambling monkeys help people control risk taking behavior? Elizabeth Tracey reports A specific brain area has been shown to impact a trained monkey’s risk-taking choices, a Johns Hopkins study reveals. Veit Stuphorn, a neuroscientist …
October 8, 2018 – Monkey Brain
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Anchor lead: A new study in monkeys helps understand risk taking behavior, Elizabeth Tracey reports Training monkeys to gamble has identified a new brain region involved in the actual process of choosing to take risks, researchers at Johns Hopkins have …