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FDA approves eculizumab for generalized myasthenia gravis

October 24, 2017
ºÚÁÏÍø Neurologist, Dr. James F. Howard, was the lead investigator in the clinical trial that led to FDA approval.

ºÚÁÏÍø launches new study to uncover nutritional impacts on early brain development

September 19, 2017
Researchers are using state-of-the-art imaging techniques and collecting data on dietary nutrient intake, feeding practices, and gut microbiota abundance and diversity to elucidate the links between nutrition, the microbiome, and brain maturation processes in early childhood.

Unraveling Alzheimer’s: New Study Documents How Brain Cells Go Bad

August 29, 2017
In a first-of-its-kind study, ºÚÁÏÍø researchers show how a damaging cascade of events inside brain cells – and related to Alzheimer’s disease – can be stopped or reversed.

Nine ºÚÁÏÍø Neurologists named to 2017-2018 Best Doctors in America® list

August 17, 2017
Only four percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor.

Neurology News – August 2017

August 10, 2017
What's new in the Department of Neurology

Resident receives Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award

August 9, 2017
Dr. Jason Richards received a Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award at the 2017 ºÚÁÏ꿉۪s Whitehead Lecture and Awards ceremony on August 9.

Meet our new faculty

August 1, 2017
We are pleased to announce the further expansion of our pediatric neurology division with three new faculty members, Drs. Diana Cejas, Ammar Hussain and Yiting Yang. In addition, our ALS clinic will receive support from Dr. Deborah Gelinas, and Dr. Michael Forbes, a former ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology resident and fellow, will...

ALS: New Clues to the Cause and How Future Drugs Might Reverse Disease

July 26, 2017
ºÚÁÏÍø Neurology's Todd Cohen, PhD and other researchers team up to reverse TDP-43 protein aggregation, a hallmark of degenerative diseases.

Researchers continue to seek strategy for starving brain tumors

June 10, 2017
In the journal Cancer Research, ºÚÁÏÍø Lineberger researchers led by member Timothy R. Gershon, MD, PhD, report in the latest in a series of attempts to shut down the energy production machinery in medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. The findings may help researchers identify a suitable...

WCHL interviews Dr. David Haung for Stroke Awareness month

May 26, 2017
Every 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke. Most victims are older, but strokes can happen to anyone regardless of age.