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Study Finds Long-Term Benefits of DBS in Refractory Epilepsy
Major Finding: Bilateral deep brain stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus demonstrated stepwise improvements in the median percent...
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Group Educational Therapy Helps Psychogenic Seizure Patients
Major Finding: Following diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, patients who received three educational group therapy sessions were...
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News Briefs From the Radiological Society of North America's 2012 Annual Meeting
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Fine-Tuning Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest
Major Finding: Eight of 18 comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who were cooled to 32° C for 24 hours (44%) were alive and free...
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Delay Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV Patients with Cryptococcal Meningitis
Major Finding: HIV-infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis who started an antiviral regimen 7-11 days after starting cryptococcal...
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News Briefs From the 28th Congress of ECTRIMS
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As Renal Denervation Use Grows, New Benefits Emerge
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Smoking Relapse Deadly for Stroke Survivors
Major Finding: Stroke survivors who resume smoking have a threefold higher risk of dying within 1 year.Data Source: Data are from a prospective,...
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Stroke Treatment Gets Boost From New Clot Retrievers
Major Finding: Successful recanalization was significantly more likely to occur in 58 patients treated with the Solitaire device than in 55...
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Drinking Patterns Linked to Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults
Major Finding: Elderly women who drank moderately and women who started drinking late in life had 1.6- and 3-fold higher odds, respectively, of...
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Environment Modifies ApoE e4-Related Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
Major Finding: Among ApoE e4 carriers, the risk of Alzheimer’s disease was lower for those having more education (hazard ratio, 0.55), a high...