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Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
To my dozens of loyal readers out there, I should let you know that I'll not be posting for the next month. William Butler Yeats said that a fulfilled life is one in which there is "a continuous drinking of knowledge". I hate to interrupt the imbibing; b...
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
I asked the good people at the Jain Foundation (https://www.jain-foundation.org/), an organization devoted to the treatment of Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2B/Miyoshi myopathy, to help me understand the difference between the two diseases. The Jain Foun...
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
Dr. David Drachman writes in an editorial in the current Neurology (6 May 2008, p. 1725-7): Statistically, people with larger brains have higher intelligence, but for individuals the rule is fallible: the Nobel laureate, Anatole France, was known to have...
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
It finally arrived in the mail from Amazon.com yesterday: Greenfields Neuropathology, 8th Edition (2 Volume Set with CD). All $599 worth. Because I ordered it before publication, I paid only $569.05. Editors Seth Love (Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK), ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
Medical student Sameer Vohra informed me that he came to this blog looking for more information on Sen. Ted Kennedy's brain tumor. Also in my email inbox this morning was a link from Dr. Doug Shevlin to an article in the Chicago Tribune about Kennedy's di...
Posted by neuropathology blog 3 years ago.
Neil asks a very good question. What is the difference between those with, and those without, an interthalamic adhesion. I found a 1991 article in Science by Ann Gibbons entitled The brain as sexual organ (Science 30 August 1991: 957-959) which states...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
At this morning's brain cutting conference, the question arose as to whether or not the interthalamic adhesion is present in all humans. According to Dr. Bob Struble's memory, and confirmed by my internet search, the interthalamic adhesion (also known as ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
The first thing most of us think of when a patient presents with rapidly progressive dementia (RPD) is Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD). But not so fast! Michael Geschwind, with Aissa Haman and Bruce Miller, of the University of California at San Francisco ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
The good Dr. Doug Shevlin suggested that I relate a story I told to him this morning which has a neuropsychiatric theme. The other night, I was in bed holding my 11-month-old son when I asked my wife to hold the baby. She replied that I must be joking. I ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
An installment of my "best post" series:The best neuropathologyblog post in January of 2008 presented frozen section room rules as described by Dr. Mark Cohen of Case Western in his seminar called "Neuropath@Nite Staying Cool in the Frozen Room. The se...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
One of my favorite pathology blogs is published by Ole Eichhorn, Chief Technical Officer of Aperio Technologies, a digital pathology company in San Diego. Eichhorns blog, The Daily Scan (http://blog.aperio.com/), covers news and offers opinions about pat...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
This post was an answer to a quiz question posed on the previous day:From what disease did "the Elephant Man" sufferJoseph Merrick was originally thought to be suffering from neurofibromatosis type I, a genetic disorder also known as von Recklinghausen's...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
Save the date: September 11 - 15, 2010, Salzburg, Austria.Here's the link: http://www.icn2010.org/I'll also put it in my "links of interest" below for future reference.
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
Today I feature an edition of my occasional Best of series in which I reread the blog posts of each month and repost my favorite one. Heres my favorite for November 07:The pineal gland is innervated by the nervi conarii. This name was derived from t...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
The esteemed Dr. Mark Cohen of Case Western Reserve University alterted me to a good website where neurology residents can communicate with one another about anything neurological. Check it out:http://frontalcortex.com/page=homeI'll put it in my "links o...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
I'm currently at an evening conference entitled: "Case Studies in Dementia". This will be my last engagement at the meeting. My family and I leave tomorrow morning for a 3+ hour train ride back to Springfield, IL. Tonight's program features: Dr. Richard C...
Posted by neuropathology blog 4 years ago.
The day started early with a 5 AM hotel wake up call. The 5K Run for Research took place at 6:30 this morning, with about 100 participants -- including myself. I hit the exhibits today for the first time. Of course, all the big pharmaceutical companies we...
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