Neuroscience Expert: Challenges Ahead, But “Research Bandwidth” Can Expand
Guest lecturer Dennis Choi, MD, PhD, right, with Fredy J. Revilla, MD, Director of the Gardner Center at UCNI. Dr. Choi was Dr. Revilla’s mentor and department chairman at Washington University in St. Louis about a decade ago. Photo by Cindy Starr / Mayfield Clinic. The esteemed neuroscientist Dennis Choi, MD, PhD, special guest lecturer […]
Dr. Alberto Espay Eyes a Year of Olympic Potential
Alberto Espay, MD, leads a session of video rounds for faculty, fellows and residents in the Department of Neurology at the UC College of Medicine. Photo by Cindy Starr / Mayfield Clinic. For Alberto Espay, MD, the year ahead is going to require a feat of gymnastics. A neurologist at the James J. and Joan […]
Sad? Anxious? Really, It’s All in Your Head!
NAMI Executive Director Heather Turner with Stephen Strakowski, MD. Photo by Cindy Starr / Mayfield Clinic. Shake it off … Everybody goes through bad patches … Chin up … It’s all in your head! Sound familiar? Stephen M. Strakowski, MD, a leading psychiatrist and researcher, knows that for those who struggle with mental illness, dark […]
Drs. Fredy J. Revilla and Kim Seroogy on WMKV’s HealthScope
Listen to Dr. Fredy J Revilla, MD, Director of the Gardner Center, and Kim Seroogy, PhD, Director of the Selma Schottenstein Harris Laboratory, in an interview on WMKV Radio, 89.3-FM, Cincinnati. This file may take several minutes to download. Download an MP3 File >> Publication Name: WMKV Radio, 89.3-FM
To Save Patients from Metastatic Brain Cancer, Expert Says, Control the Astrocytes
Dr. Isaiah Fidler presenting the inaugural lecture of the UC Brain Tumor Molecular Therapeutics Program. Photo by Cindy Starr / Mayfield Clinic. Isaiah Fidler, DVM, PhD, one of the world’s leading experts on brain metastasis, wowed a standing-room-only audience of neuroscience researchers Wednesday at the University of Cincinnati by illuminating what he hypothesizes is the […]
2011 Final Walk Ahead Proceeds Pass $175k
Contact: Cindy Starr (513) 558-3505 [email protected] The 2011 Walk Ahead for a Brain Tumor Cure attracted 1,667 participants and raised $175,144, organizers have announced. The donations bring the 2-year-old event’s cumulative fundraising total to more than $303,000. Proceeds benefit research and education at the Brain Tumor Center at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute. “The […]
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A Discussion about Sleep (Podcast)
Listen to a discussion about sleep on Healthscope with Jennifer Rose Molano, MD, a sleep specialist with the Memory Disorders Center at the UC Neuroscience Institute. This is a large audio file, and downloading could take up to 5 to 10 minutes. Publication Name: WMKV 89.3-FM
Alicia’s Story: Multiple Sclerosis
Alicia is relishing a life that is filled to the brim: she is a wife, a mother, a runner and a master at living with multiple sclerosis. Diagnosed in the late 1990s, Alicia had “a bumpy ride” in the beginning. But over the years, and with help from the Waddell Center for Multiple Sclerosis and […]
Local Company Making Strides in Developing Cancer Cure, Free of Side Effects
COVINGTON, Ky. – Bexion Pharmaceuticals would be the first to tell you their research is far too preliminary at this point for them to be able to promise a cancer cure. They still could be several years and millions of dollars away from that, but one thing they can promise at this point is hope; […]
Medication Risks Are Real for Pregnant Women with Epilepsy
Michael Privitera, MD, above, Director of the UC Epilepsy Center. Photo by UC Academic Health Center Communications Services. What’s a mother-to-be to do? That may be the question of the decade for women of childbearing age who have epilepsy. Do they risk having a seizure while pregnant? Or do they risk exposing their fetus to […]