Category: Neurology And Neurosurgery
February 26, 2016 – Dementia and Head Injury
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Anchor lead: Repeated head injury and dementia risk appear linked, Elizabeth Tracey reports Are dementia and repeated head injury, known as TBI, related? Researchers have identified a link between traumatic brain injury and accumulation of proteins also associated with Alzheimer’s …
February 25, 2016 – TBI Assessment
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Anchor lead: Do conventional imaging studies demonstrate traumatic brain injury? Elizabeth Tracey reports TBI, the acronym for traumatic brain injury, is on the rise, with more and more studies demonstrating a role for the condition in brain inflammation, depression, and …
February 24, 2016 – TBI
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Anchor lead: Traumatic brain injury rates continue to rise, Elizabeth Tracey reports Increasing participation in sports is one way to help stem the tide of obesity, but it also accounts for increasing rates of traumatic brain injury, or TBI. Vani …
PodMed – Week of February 15, 2016
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This week’s topics include seafood consumption and Alzheimer’s disease, transcranial stimulation for tinnitus, long term use of marijuana and cognition, and mobile texts for medication adherence. Program notes: 0:40 Fish and cognition 1:49 Moderate seafood associated with less cognitive deficit …
January 29, 2016 – MS Practice
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Anchor lead: Should everyone with MS be taking high dose vitamin D? Elizabeth Tracey reports High dose vitamin D was able to reduce inflammation in people with multiple sclerosis, a recent study by Peter Calabresi, an MS expert, and colleagues …
January 28, 2016 – Vitamin D and MS
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Anchor lead: Can vitamin D help symptoms of multiple sclerosis? Elizabeth Tracey reports High dose vitamin D was able reduce one marker of inflammation that’s elevated in multiple sclerosis, a study by Peter Calabresi, an MS expert at Johns Hopkins, …