The University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute’s mission has three components: patient care, research and education. The third part of that mission was on proud display this week as multiple neuroscience disciplines and centers of excellence staged premier lectures and presentations. From brain metastasis to multiple sclerosis to schizophrenia to rare movement disorders, the topics of…
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What did Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf and Jimi Hendrix have in common? And what condition do Judy Collins, James Taylor, Kitty Dukakis, Kay Jamison and Catherine Zeta-Jones also share? The answer is bipolar disorder, a mood disorder characterized by periods of high energy, euphoria or irritability, and sleeplessness followed by periods…
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In Dr. Alberto Espay’s hands, good ideas just keep getting better. A specialist at the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders at the UC Neuroscience Institute, one of four institutes of the UC College of Medicine and UC Health, Dr. Espay has elevated an educational concept called…
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As Dearborn County Hospital in Lawrenceburg, Ind., prepares to mark its one-year anniversary with the UC Health Telestroke Network next Tuesday on the eve of Stroke Awareness Month, hospital President and CEO Roger Howard could not be more pleased with the initiative’s success. “We have had just over 40 patients brought to our hospital who…
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Patients who are fighting for their lives as a result of conditions as diverse as major depression, stroke and traumatic brain injury may benefit from an established drug that is drawing new attention from researchers at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute. Ketamine, commonly used as an anesthetic, is showing promise in its ability to…
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Seizures are among the most puzzling mysteries in medicine. They can occur any time, at any age and without any warning. Michael Privitera, MD, Director of the Epilepsy Center at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, one of four institutes of the UC College of Medicine and UC Health, has developed a national reputation for…
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March is Essential Tremor Awareness Month, and everyone at the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders sends a vote of confidence and a word of encouragement to the more than 2,000 Gardner Center patients who are affected by this progressive neurological condition. The Gardner Center is a…
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The community that raised $2 million to create the John M. Tew, Jr., MD, Chair in Neurosurgical Oncology was sincerely thanked last Friday with a memorable evening highlighted by tributes, memories and pledges of stewardship. Attending the event were more than 100 dignitaries, donors and supporters of the Tew Chair, which was awarded to Ronald…
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For Dean Jennings, neurological disease arrived cloaked in disguise. It began with memory problems at work, which he hid from his wife and co-workers, then revealed itself with balance problems, a shuffling walking pattern and an unexpected fall on the tennis court. Dean’s initial diagnosis was “possible Parkinson’s disease,” and later he was treated with…
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Obesity, spinal cord injury, and changes in the brain from severe adolescent stress or college football are the subjects of four $25,000 pilot grants awarded this year to researchers by the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, one of four institutes of the UC College of Medicine and UC Health, and the Network for Neuroscience Discovery….
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By Charlie Shor
I have had many adventures in my 57 years, and I have accomplished much. But the main message of my story, which I have been given the opportunity to share, is that anything is possible. If you have... 
She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered... 
Courtney is positive that she was wearing her seatbelt. Perhaps that is why her head and neck – thankfully -- were fine. Perhaps that is also why her midsection was so violently impacted, as the force of the rollover twisted... 
Scott has no recollection of the concrete wall. His wife, Sondra, knows only what she was told. And that, she says, is something of a fish story, with the wall growing with every telling … from eight feet, to 10... 
In November of 2004, Zettie Williams confronted what neurologists consider one of the most feared consequences of stroke. When a therapist showed her a photograph of her son, she knew she was looking at her son, but she couldn’t say... 
There was a time in Alisha’s young life when she was angry at her fate and bitter about her life. “I wondered why this had to happen to me,” she said. Her outlook has changed to one of eagerness and... 
Leah is a young woman who sings, dances, and plays the guitar. She is also a survivor of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM).
It is rare for someone in her mid-teens to have had an AVM, an abnormal tangle of blood vessels... 
She has completed medical school, has won the Flying Pig Marathon and has reached the summit of two of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks.Today Dr. Alison Delgado is tackling a mountain of a different kind. Step by hard-earned step, word by remembered... 
The only visible sign of Amber Gray’s ordeal is the long slender scar that runs along her forearm. It is the area where a surgeon carefully removed her radial artery, which was needed to bypass a damaged artery in her... 
What began as a shortcut became, for Laura Brunner, a monumental detour.
Laura, a prominent Cincinnati business executive, was enjoying a mountain hike in Montana with fellow trustees from the Dan Beard Council of the Boy Scouts when the group decided...