Treating Brain Tumors With Bacteria Gets Neuro-surgeons Banned

by Ket Patel | Aug 1, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Neurosurgery

Are a few animal studies and a handful of human case reports enough to let physicians skirt institutional review boards? Two neurosurgeons in California did just that when they used Enterobacter aerogenes to infect the surgical wounds of three terminally ill...

Voice Disturbance Analysis Detects Parkinson’s

by Ket Patel | Jul 29, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders

Evidence that voice disturbances might be an additional clue to making a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease was recently supported by a study conducted by a mathematician and collaborators from Intel Corp. Max Little, Ph.D., a mathematician now at the Massachusetts...

Brain Tumors Glow ‘Like Lava’ With New Surgical Probe

by Ket Patel | Jul 28, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Neuro-Oncology

Neurosurgeons can now follow a glowing road map that points the way to cancerous brain tissue, leading thereby to a more effective surgical excision. Researchers at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover,...

BG-12 Cuts Relapse Rate, Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

by Ket Patel | Jul 28, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis

Full results of the second phase III trial of dimethyl fumarate in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis show that the investigational drug significantly reduces annualized relapse rates and MRI lesions over the course of 2 years The results of the...

MCI in Parkinson’s Linked to Frontostriatal Dysfunction

by Ket Patel | Jul 26, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders

Parkinson’s disease patients with mild cognitive impairment have dysfunctional circuitry in brain networks involving the right dorsal caudate nucleus and the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex, compared with unaffected Parkinson’s patients, according to a prospective...