Displaying items by tag: department of neurology
The UAB studies are designed to test the safety and tolerability of CBD oil in patients with intractable seizures. CBD oil, a derivative of the cannabis plant, is delivered orally as an oily liquid.
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The Alzheimer’s plaques that accumulate around brain cells also congregate along the walls of blood vessels, according to UAB research, and that may contribute to cognitive issues.
Engineers, physicians, computer scientists and statisticians will collaborate to research and apply big data in the health care, industrial and smart cities fields.
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A multisite study led by UAB has found the first biomarker for the onset of seizures in infants with tuberous sclerosis.
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UAB's strengths in clinical care and research are powering an interdisciplinary expedition into largely uncharted territory: neuroinflammatory mechanisms in Parkinson's disease.
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UAB’s Roberson wins young investigator award from the American Neurological Association.
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Oh honored with lifetime award from the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine.
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Haydeh Payami, Ph.D., a leading geneticist recruited to the UAB-Hudson Alpha Center for Genomic Medicine and UAB Personalized Medicine Institute, is exploring the protective power of coffee and nicotine — and the mysteries of the microbiome — in Parkinson’s disease.
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The drug inhibits the activity of a kinase enzyme called LRRK2, and it showed no pathology in rat lungs, kidneys or livers.
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A new study from UAB suggests that the effect of genetic variants on warfarin dose differs by race – a step towards personalized medicine.
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UAB researchers find a chemical pathway — a glutamate transporter — that may be causing seizures and shorten survival rates for patients with brain tumors.
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UAB is one of five centers named to host the first class of fellows in the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders.
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UAB has established the third multidisciplinary comprehensive clinic in the world for transverse myelitis, a rare spinal cord disease.
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UAB has received prestigious designation as a Comprehensive Stroke Center from the Joint Commission and American Heart Association.
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Research to identify a new approach to treat Alzheimer’s disease gets new funding after a pilot grant from the Alabama Drug Discovery Alliance.
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This interdisciplinary symposium will highlight different areas of research from across campus.
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UAB neurology researcher Kristen Triebel gets substantial American Cancer Society grant to investigate the ability of patients to understand, choose and consent to treatment.
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Thirty honors students and faculty traveled to the National Collegiate Honors Council in November.
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The first patient in the Southeast to get the RNS responsive neurostimulation seizure-control device implanted in the brain reports dramatic results at UAB.
UAB has launched one of the first clinics in the nation designed to provide healthy adults with an assessment of their risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
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