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Best Post of December 2011: Naegleria-tainted neti pots possibly killed two people by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Naegleria fowleria (photo courtesy of Dr. Mark Cohen) The next in our Best of the Month series is from December 16, 2011: Now that it's winter and our no ... Read on »

National Baseball Park Tour Raises Awareness of PSP by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The Shea's at AT&T Park in San Francisco CurePSP is an organization dedicated to raising public awareness of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). A member ... Read on »

A Mild Case of Neurocystircercosis by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health From Andrew Sullivan via Dr. Doug Shevlin . Read on »

New Study Looks at Head Impacts in Youth Football by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health We neuropathologists, and society as a whole, has spent a lot of time over the last couple of years rethinking the long-term effects brain damage causes by repeated concussi ... Read on »

"This is the single biggest change in education since the printing press." by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Anant Agarwal, President, edX On rare occasion, I stray from this blog's focus on clinical neuropathology to inform readers about new innovations in educati ... Read on »

Best Post of November, 2011: Neuropathology Focus of New SNO President's Address by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The next in our "Best Post of the Month" series is from November 18, 2011: Over 1400 attendees at 2011 SNO meeting in Anaheim ... Read on »

Photomicrographs of last month's spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 case by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health A month ago, I posted gross photographs from an autopsy case of mine of a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6. I am now following up with histologic images for this c ... Read on »

The International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias has been founded by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The following is an email sent out this week from Bernardino Ghetti, MD, neuropathologist at Indiana University : Dear Friends, Bernardino Ghetti, MD In ... Read on »

Best Post of October 2011: Treatable Neurologic Disorders Misdiagnosed as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The next in our "Best of the Month" series is from October 17, 2011: A case of primary CNS angiitis thought to be sCJD Dr. Mark Cohen and a team of ... Read on »

Troy Aikman says he wouldn't be inclined to encourage a 10-year-old son to play football by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health "If I had a 10-year-old boy, I don't know that I'd be real inclined to encourage him to go play football in light of what we are learning from head injury [research]." - Tr ... Read on »

"Esterase Lamp" by Derek A. Mathis, MD by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

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"ATPase 4.6 tile" by Derek A. Mathis, MD by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

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Derek Mathis Week Begins Today by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health This week I'll be featuring the art photography of Derek A. Mathis, MD, a second-year neuropathology fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center . Perhaps because he has an und ... Read on »

Best Post of September 2011: The Five Hottest Topics in Neuropathology Today by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The next in our "Best of the Month" series is from September 13, 2011 By consensus, I present to you the five hottest topics in neuropathology today 1. Chronic Traumatic ... Read on »

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 autopsy photographs by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health On the left is the brain of an 82-year-old patient with a diagnosis of spincocerebellar ataxia, type 6 (SCA6). On the right is the brain of a 96-year-old "control" patient w ... Read on »

Lodging info for the AANP meeting in Chicago by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The Palmer House Lobby in Chicago.... Pretty sweet!!! I'm currently booking lodging now for the The Palmer House in Chicago for the 2012 annual meeting of t ... Read on »

New SAD Treatment – Shining Light Into The Brain Through The Ears by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I'm not sure whether or not this is legit, but this story outlines an interesting theory. Thanks to the ever-awake Doug Shevlin, MD for alerting me to this article. Read on »

An 82-year-old Parkinson's patient who had undergone a right-sided pallidotomy procedure twelve... by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Photomicrographs of the pallidotomy site Contralateral globus pallidus appearing to exhibit neuronal loss Read on »

Eberhart questions glial-to-endothelial transdifferentiation in real-world glioblastomas by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I'd like to share with you this email, which I received from the illustrious Dr. Charles Eberhart this morning: Hi Brian, I was curious what other neuropathologists ... Read on »

Best Post of August 2011: Benignity in meningioma indicated by smiley face nucleus by Dr. Brian M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The next in our "Best of Month" series is from August 16, 2011: Drs. John Donahue and Ed Stopa sent in the photomicrograph below from an article they published ... Read on »

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