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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fourth Annual ‘Research Innovations’ Event Draws 500 Patrons
The fourth annual “Research Innovations for an Epilepsy Cure” drew some 500 guests to the glittering Mercedes-Benz of Cincinnati on Oct. 17. The indoor showroom, emptied of vehicles for the occasion, featured a dual silent auction, with gifts on the first floor and to-die-for wines above – including a 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild that sold […]
Head & Neck Cancer Specialist Fears New Anti-Smoking Images May Fall Short
Photo of Yash Patil, MD, by Cindy Starr / Mayfield Clinic A picture may pack the punch of a thousand words, but Yash Patil, MD, doesn’t think the graphic images scheduled to appear on cigarette packs in 2012 will be strong enough to slay the dragon of nicotine addiction. In Dr. Patil’s experience, a diagnosis […]
Certified Stroke Centers Make a Life-Saving Impact
Congratulations to Jason Mackey, MD, and Dawn Kleindorfer, MD, on their authorship of “Stroke Centers and Quality of Stroke Care,” an editorial* in the May edition of the prestigious journal Neurology. Dr. Mackey, a second-year fellow in the Department of Neurology, and Dr. Kleindorfer, Associate Professor of Neurology and Director of the Division of Vascular […]
Brain Tumor Event Celebrates Good Wine and Good Cheer
Ronald Warnick, MD, with special guest Doc Rodgers at Thursday’s wine-tasting event. Photo by Dave Collins/UC Academic Health Center Communications Services. Some 240 friends of the UC Brain Tumor Center enjoyed food, friendship and fund-raising Thursday night at the second annual wine-tasting event at the CARE-Crawley Building on the UC Academic Health Center campus. Dozens […]
Taking One Step at a Time, Uniquely, Following an Aneurysm Rupture
George Jewell, PhD, speaks during the Tri-State Brain Aneurysm Support Group’s annual symposium at the Vontz Center. Just as no two people are alike, no two experiences with a ruptured brain aneurysm are alike. Aneurysms can differ in size, location and when they strike. “Every person’s brain is a unique and special organism,” George Jewell, […]