I don't know if everyone caught this in the news, but Senator Edward Kennedy has been diagnosed with a glioma. Regardless of one's politics, this is a real bum rap, and my deepest sympathy goes out to him and his...
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Posted on May 22, 2008 11:36 AM • 5 Comments •
CNN has a story about a Navy neurologist who tried using mirrors to help soldiers from Iraq with phantom pain. Phantom pain is pain in amputees that is perceived to originate in the amputated limb. What causes it is not...
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Posted on March 20, 2008 8:41 AM • 11 Comments •
The NYTimes has a slide show of "migraine" art provided by Oliver Sacks from his book Migraine. They attempt to illustrate what a migraine aura looks like. Neat. I would put one up on my wall if I didn't feel...
Posted on March 4, 2008 11:29 AM • 5 Comments •
In neuroscience, we spend a lot of time studying the normal function of the nervous system, and we spend a lot of time studying disease processes that can impair this function. What we don't typically do is study how functional...
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Posted on January 17, 2008 9:51 AM • 0 Comments •
In which a boy wakes up after an infection with a new accent.
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Posted on September 18, 2007 11:02 AM • 8 Comments •
Science has an article this week (sadly behind a subscription wall) about a rare disease called Mobius syndrome. Mobius syndrome is a developmental disorder of facial muscle innervation with a variety of presentations; however, the presentation often includes facial paralysis...
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Posted on May 14, 2007 1:30 PM • 0 Comments •