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A friend emailed me a link to the Iowa State Virtual Reality Applications Center, where they are doing interesting things with 3D rendering that will have implications for brain tumor operations. Here's what one researcher there, Eliot Winer (pictured), i...
Posted by neuropathology blog 5 days 16 hours ago.
Happy New Year! It's good to be back with you after a one-month hiatus. The first post of 2009 is by a guest blogger named Sarah Scrafford, who agreed to write an update on the status of Pittsburgh Compound B in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. A gra...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
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Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
Here's a follow-up on my recent post on the presence of Cowdry B inclusions in poliomyelitis. Thanks to Dr. Doug Shevlin, who encouraged me to go back to the original paper by EV Cowdry to find out exactly what Cowdry meant when he described type B inclus...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
And now for another in my occasional Best of the Month series, where I march through the past months choosing only the very best blog posts. Since publishing this post, I have been looking for von Economo neurons in my autopsy cases. I believe that I h...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
I reported in May 2008 on the diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor in Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy (see photo taken in 1969 for Life Magazine). The Voice of American (VOA) recently provided an update on Sen. Kennedy's status, based on a statement he ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
Some weeks ago, I wrote about the new campaign by the College of American Pathologists to transform the specialty of pathology. Well, Neuropathology Blog has just been recognized as one of the agents effecting that change. Read more here.
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
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Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
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Posted by neuropathology blog 1 month ago.
Karen Everingham -- formerly of the Illinois Association of Museums and now of the Historic Sites Division of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency -- has provided me with yet another interesting link to a medical museum. The International Museum of S...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
Yesterday's post focused on the utility of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) histochemisty in muscle biopsies. Dr. Steve Moore, who was also featured yesterday, kindly sent me a link to an article by a fellow University of Iowa faculty member, Dr. Kev...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
From time to time, I feature an installment of my “Best Post Of The Month” series. The next month up for review is July '08, and I feel that this was the best item posted that month:WHAT IS nNOS AND WHY IS nNOS HISTOCHEMISTRY USEFUL IN MUSCLE BIOPSIE...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
From time to time, I feature an installment of my Best Post Of The Month series. The next month up for review is July '08, and I feel that this was the best item posted that month:WHAT IS nNOS AND WHY IS nNOS HISTOCHEMISTRY USEFUL IN MUSCLE BIOPSIES
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Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
Karen Everingham of the Illinois Association of Museums told me about an unusual medical museum sponsored by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia called the Mutter Museum. Among the medical curios and artifacts housed at the Mutter is a unique set of...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
Today marks the first anniversary of Neuropathology Blog! There have been 128 posts in the last year, and over 200 comments by readers. Geographic tracking shows that people from as near as Springfield, IL and as far away as India and Japan have accessed ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
The neurology residents and I got into a discussion today about the utility of the 14-3-3 protein immunoassay on CSF fluid. I published a post on this assay many months ago in which I called it essentially useless. Now that I've done some more research on...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
A friend emailed me a link to the Iowa State Virtual Reality Applications Center, where they are doing interesting things with 3D rendering that will have implications for brain tumor operations. Here's what one researcher there, Eliot Winer (pictured), i...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) announced a new initiative at the September national meeting in San Diego entitled: The CAP Campaign for the Transformation of the Specialty of Pathology. A cornerstone of the campaign is the CAP's new certificat...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
A reader from Springfield, IL recently sent me this picture of a market that once stood on Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis. "Brains & Eggs" was once a popular dish, particularly in the southeastern United States.
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 months ago.
Today is Global Blog Action Day 08, which this year focuses on the topic of poverty. One important place where poverty and neuropathology intersect is in the disease known as poliomyelitis (polio). This is a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly ...
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