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Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
The next in our "Best Posts of the Month" series is from February 5, 2010:When I first heard about this, I said to myself: "No way. This has got to be a spoof." But its true! Neuropathologist Arie Perry (pictured) has released a music CD called Neuropat...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
"The brain -- even a brain with disease -- is beautiful, complex and intriguing." So says Elizabeth Jameson regarding her artistic renditions of her own brain MRIs. A sample of her work, which came from an MRI of her own cortex, is depicted below -- satur...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
The next in our series of "Best Posts of the Month" is from January 8, 2010:Neuropathologists are obligated to keep generally up to date on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) research as they are called upon to perform autopsies on patients whose dementia ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
Recent neuropathological autopsy findings of a 26-year-old NFL player lend further credence to the idea that perhaps our high school children should not be playing football. Former Cincinnati Bengals player Chris Henry, who died after falling from a movin...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
Neuropathology Blog was recently recognized in an editorial in the international journal Brain Pathology, (Volume 20, Number 4, July 2010). Editor Arie Perry (as of today, on faculty at the UCSF pathology department) writes that the blog is "somewhat of a...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
The "best case" award winner at the Diagnostic Slide Session at the recent American Association of Neuropathologists annual meeting in Philadelphia was presented by Dr. Sandra Camelo-Piragua, a neuropathology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. The ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
Neuropathologist Henry Brown, MD, PhD (pictured) recommends the novel Sleepless by Charlie Huston to those in the neuropathology community with an interest in the fatal insomnias. A review on Amazon.com describes the book as a "thriller set in a postapoca...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
For those of you who missed this evening's diagnostic slide session, here are the diagnoses that were ultimately revealed:1. Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor, mixed connective tissue variant2. Primary Solitary Amyloidoma3. CNS parenchymal involvement by Kik...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
Dr. Harry Vinters (pictured), in a conversation I just had with him in the refreshment area at the annual AANP meeting, told me that when a trainee complains about the paucity of jobs in neuropathology, he simply refers them to Neuropathology Blog! As you...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
Drs. David Louis (AANP president) and Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov put together a nice day-long educational session today to kick off the American Association of Neuropathologists annual meeting here in Philadelphia. In addition to our own kind, non-neuropatho...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
The American Association of Neuropathologists' annual meeting will be held in Philadelphia next week -- from June 10 to June 13. I'll be there -- blogging live -- with comments from participants, summaries of cutting-edge presentations, and news from the ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
I came across a glioblastoma today (see below) which focally exhibited epithelioid and even gland-like features -- or what the WHO Tumor book calls "adenoid" characteristics. Had there not been other areas showing more classic GBM histomorphology, I'd hav...
Posted by neuropathology blog 1 year ago.
The Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, a 19 year project funded by the NIA, has embarked on a clinical trial that delivers Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) directly into the brain as a possible treatment for Alzheimer’s. A Phase II clinical study...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
The next in our series of "Best Posts of the Month" is from December 17, 2009: Modern Surgical Neuropathology by Dr. Doug Miller (pictured) was reviewed by Dr. Leroy Sharer in last month's Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. (I pu...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
Dianova, the German company that makes anti-human IDH1 antibody for use in immunohistochemical staining of gliomas versus gliosis, is providing free samples of its product. Just go to the site, click on "free sample", and make a request via email. This ma...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
After examining this photomicrograph of a section taken from the hippocampus at autopsy, write your diagnosis in the comment section. I'll post the correct diagnosis on Monday (May 10). Good luck!
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
Dr. Alexander Judkins (pictured), currently a neuropathologist at the Children's Hospital of Philiadelphia, is moving to sunny California to become chair of pathology at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Judkins joins another neuropathologist tran...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
You may be surprised to learn that the infamous Walter J. Freeman, MD (1895-1972), America's most prolific frontal lobotomist, was once president of the American Association of Neuropathologists. The AANP website lists Dr. Freeman (pictured) as having bee...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
When I receive a complex muscle biopsy case, I send my specimens to the excellent muscle specialists at the University of Iowa Department of Pathology. I recently got a consultation report back from Dr. Leslie Bruch (pictured) at that institution. In her ...
Posted by neuropathology blog 2 years ago.
Ellsworth C. “Buster” Alvord, Jr. died on January 19, 2010 at the age of 86. His career as a neuropathologist, scientist, and teacher spanned more than 6 decades. He began his early research career investigating immune-mediated injury to the C...
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