Neurology News Archives
Potential Drug Target Found to Treat Huntington's Disease (HealthDay News)
An enzyme critical to the repair of damaged cells and maintenance of cellular energy may be a potential drug target for treatment of people with Huntington's disease, U.S. researchers say.
Report on study led by MGH Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease researcher Alex Kazantsev
July 28, 2006
Aphasia (The Infinite Mind [National Public Radio])
Aphasia is the terrifying loss of language: destruction of speech, reading, writing or comprehension. It occurs when there is damage to the brain from a stroke, head trauma, certain neurological diseases, that has affected the language areas of their brain. Includes interview with MGH physician David Caplan.
July 26, 2006
ALS patient explores world through art (MGH Hotline)
MGH patient Fred Siwak has seen more of the world than most people, and he has an impressive stack of photographs to prove it.
July 21, 2006
Paralyzed Patients Use Minds To Control Movement (CBS-4 News)
Local researchers are reporting amazing results from a new device, known as "Braingate," which allows paralyzed patients to turn their thoughts into action.
July 13, 2006
Paralyzed man moves computer cursor through thought (Reuters)
Medically induced coma gives injured brain rest to heal itself.
July 12 2006
Device Could Restore Paralyzed Patients' 'Mobility' (WCVB-TV, Ch. 5)
Device implanted in the brain can help paralyzed people move objects just by thinking about moving them, according to researchers.
July 12 2006
Brain sensor helps paralyzed people do tasks (USA Today)
A brain implant makes it possible for paralyzed patients to move a robotic arm and a computer cursor with some ease, says a study released Thursday.
July 12 2006
Researchers offer hope to paralyzed (Providence Journal)
In the neurology clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Leigh R. Hochberg sees people with severed spinal cords who cannot move their arms and legs, people with muscles wasted by disease, and stroke victims who are "locked in" -- conscious but unable to speak or move.
July 13, 2006
Thoughts turn to motion for patients with implant (Boston Globe)
For a little more than a year, Matthew Nagle of Weymouth, who is paralyzed from the neck down, was able to play computer video games, change the channel on his TV set, and open and close a robotic hand just by looking and thinking.
July 13, 2006
Tiny Chip Converts Paraplegic's Thought into Action (Scientific American Online)
Matthew Nagle lost the use of his limbs following a knife wound that severed his spine in 2001. But in 2004 the 25-year-old regained the ability to transform thought into action with the help of a new, implanted sensor.
July 13, 2006
Slowing down brain is still fraught with risk (Washington Post)
Medically induced coma gives injured brain rest to heal itself.
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST
Going the Distance in Stroke Treatment (Boston Globe)
It was 2:40 a.m. when paramedics rushed Paul Briggette into the emergency room at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth.
Mon, 04 Apr 2006 12:00:00 EST
Slowing down brain is still fraught with risk (Washington Post)
Medically induced coma gives injured brain rest to heal itself.
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:00:00 EST
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