Elevated Urate Levels May Slow Parkinson's in Men (US News and World Report)
Researchers from MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease and Harvard School of Public Health published findings in the April issue of Archives of Neurology. Quotes Michael Schwarzschild, MD.
March 20, 2008

Sleep Study, Is less than 8 hours of sleep dangerous? (Fox News, HealthNews Desk)
Interview with Jeffrey Ellenbogen, MD (MGH Division of Sleep Medicine and MGH Sleep Lab) about sleep medicine research.
March 20, 2008

Brain Blood Vessels Grow With Their Own Agenda ( HealthDay News)
Report on study led by MGH Neuroscience investigator Pradeep Bhide.
March 19, 2008

Boston doctor spurred by "neuro-phobia" (India New England)
Interview with MGH physician Nagagopal Venna.
March 15, 2008

Alzheimer's risk doubles if both parents have disease (NECN (Choose video link.))
Quotes MGH researcher Rudy Tanzi, MGH social worker Barbara Moscowitz, and MGH staffer Carol Ann Gould.
March 11, 2008

A Window into Alzheimer's (Technology Review)
Advances in imaging shed light on how the disease develops. A report on a study at the Alzheimer's unit at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease.
February 8, 2008

Alzheimer's plaques can form in one day (Washington Post)
Reported in the February 7 issue of Nature, a study using advanced imaging techniques has captured the fact that amyloid plaques, the harbingers of Alzheimer's disease, can develop in just 24 hours. Dr. Bradley Hyman, leader of the group comments.
February 7, 2008

Alzheimer plaques precede neuron damage (The Scientist (UK))
Researchers, led by Bradley Hyman at Massachusetts General Hospital, used an in vivo imaging technique in a mouse Alzheimer's model to observe how and where plaques form over time.
February 7, 2008

Does Brain Plaque Point to Alzheimer's? (WebMD)
Formation of brain plaque may be the first step toward Alzheimer's disease, and it can happen within a day; research study at the Alzheimer's Unit at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.
February 6, 2008

Program Helps Parkinson's Patients Gain Strength (WBZ TV Online)
Nancy Huggins of Massachusetts General Hospital talks about a Tai Chi exercise program tailored to meet the needs of patients with Parkinson's.
January 21, 2008

A Mother Perseveres for her Son (Boston Globe Online)
The Jett Foundation and MGH physician Brian Tseng hope for a neuromuscular clinic dedicated to improving care and finding a cure for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
December 30, 2007

Faulty wiring mystifies mechanics and doctors alike (Boston Globe Online)
Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander writes about neuralgia and the health care system.
December 17, 2007

Advances in Epilepsy Research (Podcast) (Museum of Science)
Interview with MGH researcher and director of Epilepsy Service Dr. Andrew Cole.
December 1, 2007

Epilepsy Advances (New England Cable News, 'Sci-Tech Today')
Video interview with MGH director of Epilepsy Service Dr. Andrew Cole.
November 30, 2007

Sleepless in New York (New York Times)
Letter to editor from MGH physician Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen.
October 11, 2007

Molecule Promising Against Huntington's Disease (HealthDay News)
Coverage of study led by MGH physician Steven Hersch.
October 9, 2007

New hope in search for Huntington's cure (The Guardian (U.K.))
Coverage of study led by MGH physician Steven Hersch.
October 9, 2007

Novel Cooling Therapy May Have Aided Injured Football Player (HealthDay News)
Quotes MGH physician David Greer.
September 13, 2007

Parkinson's is Target of Annual Run (New Bedford Standard Times)
Article about event raising funds for MGH research.
August 17, 2007

Research center named in Kistler's honor (MGH Hotline)
As a tribute to J. Philip Kistler, MD, director emeritus of the MGH Stroke Service a new clinical stroke research area has been dedicated as the The J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center. Kistler is known as an outstanding teacher, mentor and clinical expert. He has been a member of the MGH Neurology Service for 35 years and director of the Stroke Service for 26.
August 11, 2006

Doctors Say Americans Overdoing The Caffeine (WBZ-TV, Ch. 4)
Quotes MGH physician Kenneth Sassower on caffeine and sleep deprivation.
August 9, 2007

Looking Deep, Deep Into Your Genes (On Earth Magazine)
On Earth Magazine feature discusses research of MGH physician Martha Herbert.
Summer 2007

York Hospital fundraiser for Telestroke program held on historic site in Portsmouth, NH (Seacoastonline.com)
York Hospital Women's Committee annual fund-raiser for TeleStroke program real-time videoconferencing with stroke neurologists from Massachusetts General Hospital.
August 3, 2007

MGH Neurology (US News and World Report)
MGH neurology Ranked #1 in New England and #4 in the country by US News and World Report, America's Best Hospitals, 2007.
July 13, 2007

Dr. Feelgood, meet Dr. Lookgood: Harvard mag plays up fashion for MDs (Boston Herald)
Harvard Medical School's latest alumni magazine focuses on medical garb. Article quotes MGH physician Alice Flaherty.
June 4, 2007

Bigger is better, a new therapeutic approach for Parkinson's disease (Science Today-Portugal)
Researchers at MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease find potential new treatment against PD.
June 21, 2007

Study identifies novel Parkinson's disease drug target (Massachusetts General Hospital news release)
Study published in Science Express-quotes Alex Kazantsev, PhD, director of MGH-MIND Drug Discovery Laboratory
June 21, 2007

Alzheimer's Enzyme May Explain Illness-Linked Seizures (HealthDay)
Dora Kovac's study on BACE in Nature Cell Biology
June 17, 2007

Study Probes Role of Stroke, Head Trauma in Alzheimer's (HealthDay)
Guisepinna's Tesco and Rudy Tanzi's paper in Neuron
June 6, 2007

Study outlines how stroke, head injury can increase risk of Alzheimer's disease (Massachusetts General Hospital news release)
Guisepinna's Tesco and Rudy Tanzi's paper in Neuron
June 6, 2007

Olympic legend Mills coming to Quincy for 10th Kennedy run (Boston Globe)
Article on event to raise funds for MGH ALS research.
June 3, 2007

Blinded, North teen sees future (Attleboro Sun Chronicle)
Article on student dealing with MS, mentions her MGH physician Tanuja Chitnis.
June 3, 2007

A Massachusetts family fights Huntington's disease (Boston Globe)
A Massachusetts family living with Huntington's disease is interviewed. Dr. Jang-Ho Cha of Massachusetts General Hospital and MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative disease explains aspects of HD.
May 17, 2007

Bleeding stroke victims get less treatment (UPI)
A new study says U.S. patients with a "bleeding" stroke are significantly less likely to receive medications and counseling than those with clot-caused strokes.
May 14, 2007

One mother's walking miracle (Palm Beach Post)
Feature on child with dystonia, mentions consultation with MGH physician Nutan Sharma.
May 13, 2007

FAST Moves Save Lives (iBerkshires.com)
Mentions telemedicine connection between MGH and North Adams Regional Hospital.
May 11, 2007

Dr. Brad Hyman received Centennial Award from the the American Health Assistance Foundation (American Health Assistance Foundation)
Awards foster innovative, multidisciplinary research in Alzheimer's disease.
May 1, 2007

Parkinson's cause still mostly a mystery (CNN.com - Health)
Interview with John Growdon, MD about Parkinson's Disease
March 26, 2007

Tanzi wins Alzheimer's Association honor (Boston Globe)
Rudy Tanzi, director of the Genetics and Aging Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital?s MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND), has won the Alzheimer?s Association's 2007 Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute Award. Tanzi, who isolated the first Alzheimer's disease gene in 1987 and collaborated on the identification of two more in 1995, launched the Alzheimer's Genome Project late last year to identify all the genes involved in the disease.
March 20, 2007

Innovation key to Bowditch Prize (MGH Hotline)
Lee H. Schwamm, MD, vice chairman of the MGH Department of Neurology, as the winner of The Nathaniel Bowditch Prize. Schwamm, who leads the Acute Stroke Quality Taskforce, was acknowledged for designing and developing the Partners TeleStroke Center, founded in 1997.
March 16, 2007

Imaging Compound IDs Telltale Signs of Alzheimer's (Healthday)
Scientists have confirmed that an imaging agent known as Pittsburgh Compound B binds to abnormal protein growth in the brain that are a signature of Alzheimer's disease.
March 13, 2007

Imaging Exposes Alzheimer's-Like Plaque in the Human Brain (MedPage Today)
Beta-amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's type dementia can be spotted with the aid of the imaging agent Pittsburgh Compound B, researchers here determined.
March 12, 2007

Study confirms imaging compound identifies amyloid-beta in human brain (MGH Public Affairs press release. Media contact: Sue McGreevey)
Imaging with Pittsburgh Compound B may track treatment results, not sufficient for diagnosis. Quotes from John Growdon, MD, director of the MGH Memory Disorders Unit, Matthew Frosch, MD, PhD and study co-author Brian Bacskai, PhD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND).
March 12, 2007

MIND award honors those striving for a cure (MGH Hotline)
The MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) awarded the first annual Philanthropic Innovation and Investment Award to the Cure Alzheimer's Fund. The Cure Alzheimer?s Fund has donated more than $2 million to the MGH's Alzheimer's research labs and has committed to raising another $4 million.
March 9, 2007

Study finds how common anesthetic may induce cell death and generation of Alzheimer's-associated protein (MGH Public Affairs press release. Media contact: Sue McGreevey)
A new study has found how one of the most commonly used anesthetics may produce Alzheimer's-like changes in the brain. Quotes from Zhongcong Xie, MD, PhD, of the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND), and Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at MIND.
February 6, 2007

Sleep disorders testing expands to Holiday Inn (MGH Hotline)
This January, the Sleep Disorders Program of the MGH Neurology Service expanded its adult overnight outpatient testing unit to the Holiday Inn Select on Blossom Street. The new MGH Sleep Center offers a complete battery of routine and complex diagnostic tests for patients suffering from a variety of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, periodic limb movement in sleep, parasomnias and night terrors.
February 2, 2007

New angiogenesis inhibitor has promise for treating deadly brain tumor (MGH Public Affairs press release. Media contact: Sue McGreevey)
Preliminary results show tumor shrinkage, reduction in edema, normalization of blood vessels. Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have found that AZD2171 (RECENTIN?), a new angiogenesis inhibitor, can significantly reduce the size of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas and has the potential of improving the effectiveness of other therapeutic techniques.
January 16, 2007

Alzheimer?s Meta-Study Yields 13 Prime Risk Genes (HMS Focus online)
Scientists have systematically analyzed 789 papers covering 802 polymorphisms in 277 genes?all the papers collected in AlzGene up to December 2005. From these, they have identified the most viable susceptibility gene candidates. The 13 genes are published in the January Nature Genetics.
January 12, 2007

Decoding Alzheimer's. After a century, promising treatments at last?and whispers of a cure (Business Week)
Alzheimer?s research and clinical trial of the drug, Alzhemed, from Neurochem Inc.
January 8, 2007

Three families spark search for genes tied to Alzheimer's (Boston Globe)
Article about group supporting the work of MGH researcher Rudy Tanzi
November 2, 2006

Energy-boosting Protein May Ease Neural Oxidative Stress (Focus On-Line)
MGH Researchers in the lab of Dimitri Krainc showed that in mice with Huntington's disease, the mutant huntingtin protein attaches to DNA upstream of the gene for PGC-1 alpha and directly interferes with transcription of this molecular director of the cellular energy system.
October 27, 2006

Stroke projected to become leading cause of death (TheHeart.org)
Quotes MGH physician Lee Schwamm.
October 23, 2006

Huntington's gene has led to clues, but not yet cures (Boston Globe)
Quotes several researchers from MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease.
October 23, 2006

Fall Back--Into Bed (Forbes.com)
Quotes MGH, physician Kenneth Sassower.
October 20, 2006

More in Mass. get drug for stroke... (Boston Globe)
Quotes MGH, stroke specialist, physician Lee Schwamm.
October 20, 2006

Study identifies possible mechanism for brain damage in Huntington's disease (MGH Public Affairs press release. Media contact: Sue McGreevey)
Mutant huntingtin protein may block production of factor key to energy metabolism. Researchers at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease have identified a possible mechanism underlying how the gene mutation that causes Huntington's disease (HD) leads to the degeneration and death of brain cells. Quotes from Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD.
October 5, 2006

How close are we to a cure for Alzheimer's (NBC Today Show)
Quotes MGH researcher Rudy Tanzi
September 26, 2006

Program Helps Hospitals Better Treat Stroke Patients (WCVB-TV, Ch. 5)
Quotes MGH, stroke specialist, physician Lee Schwamm
September 14, 2006

Honors and Advances (HMS Focus)
Honors for MGH faculty members Merit Cudcowitz, Raymond Keller, Vamsi Mootha, and Anthony Rosenzweig
September 15, 2006

Alzheimer's drug also combats brain injuries (NewScientist.com)
A drug currently used to treat Alzheimer?s disease has shown promise in clinical trials as a treatment for patients with traumatic brain injuries. Quotes Dr. Alireza Atri.
September 12, 2006

Annual Walk of Hope for ALS (The Angel Fund)
WALK FOR ALS: Get out those sneakers and get ready for the 5th Annual Walk of Hope for ALS
Was held Septemebr 9, 2006

After the Diagnosis: Managing Parkinson's Disease (ITP Business)
Quotes Dr. Anne B. Young, head of the neurology department at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.
August 16, 2006

CVS raises $2.1M for ALS research (Providence Business News)
Device implanted in the brain can help paralyzed people move objects just by thinking about moving them, according to researchers.
August 21, 2006

Our Viennese friend (Boston Globe)
Article on Sigmund Freud?s 1909 visit to U.S. focuses on his association with then-MGH physician James Jackson Putnam.
August 20, 2006

Research center named in Kistler's honor (MGH Hotline)
As one of the world's leading physicians in the field of neurology and stroke prevention, J. Philip Kistler, MD, director emeritus of the MGH Stroke Service, has been recognized throughout his distinguished career. To pay tribute to Kistler's groundbreaking contributions and dedication to the MGH Neurology Service, a new clinical stroke research area located at 175 Cambridge St. has been dedicated as the The J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center.
August 11, 2006

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