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Welcome to the OHSU Neurology Virtual Clerkship. This site is for medical students on Neurology at OHSU or elsewhere.

Please post interesting neurology tidbits and facts. Remember this site is open to the public, so no protected patient info.

07/13/2021

American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is hosting a Futures in Neurology Research webinar on how to maintain work-life balance as an academic clinician / researcher. So, you are interested in possibly pursuing academics, sign up for the July 22 session here:

The Clinical Research Subcommittee is proud to continue the Futures in Neurologic Research program serving medical students, residents, and fellows. The upcoming programs will take place on Thursdays from 4:00 - 5:00 pm, CST on May 27, June 24, July 22, August 26. Topics include grant writing, work/...

06/19/2021

New NeuroByte written by medical students for medical students with an brief intro to brain death diagnosis and legal considerations.

Define the clinical and legal features of brain death and discuss how it is diagnosed across the United States.This video is part of the NeuroBytes Medical S...

12/20/2019

If you haven’t checked out NeuroBytes from the AAN yet, this is a good first one to see what they are all about. Good stuff packed into a small byte.

Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is an emerging disease entity that is characterized by acute onset of flaccid limb weakness. This can be challenging to recogniz...

12/13/2019

Want to keep up with the newest, coolest stuff in neurology. Only have a minute? The AAN has you covered:
https://www.aan.com/education-and-research/online-learning-

Run your practice effectively with these AAN resources, including coding, payment models, health technology, and patient education tools.

06/28/2019

Fascinating study. Fascinating media response. It's all fascinating.

And it has zombie pig brains (**editorializing to invite more fascinating discussion below)

An abstract is unavailable.

05/30/2019

File this under odd clinical presentations in kids and are likely migraines - list includes cyclic vomitting, paroxysmal torticollis, benign episodic vertigo, and infantile colic.

Review Article Episodic Syndromes That May Be Associated With Migraine: A.K.A. “the Childhood Periodic Syndromes” Amy A. Gelfand MD Corresponding Author Department of Neurology, UCSF Headache Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Department of Neurology, UCSF Child Neurology, San Francisco, CA, USA Add...

05/29/2019

Neurologists discuss video games and their effects on the brain from a session at the AAN Annual Meeting a few weeks ago (From Medscape)

Three gamer neurologists talk about the benefits and drawbacks of video games on brain health.

05/24/2019

Fascinating story about functional neurological effects secondary to corpus callosotomy (by the BBC)

The father of “split-brain syndrome” explains how researchers discovered our “two brains”.

03/02/2019

Why does the brain think things are creepy? Here’s an introduction to the neuroscience behind what’s going on in your object recognition processing centers.

The human brain is wired to read faces and Momo doesn't fit the patterns.

03/01/2019

Thinking about ditching that trip to the gym tonight? Here' some data for you to mull over. As they say at a local PDX corporation - Just do it.

Objective To determine efficacy of aerobic exercise for cognitive function in younger healthy adults. Methods In a randomized, parallel-group, observer-masked, community-based clinical trial, 132 cognitively normal individuals aged 20–67 with below median aerobic capacity were randomly assigned to...

02/22/2019

OHSU Neurology Department Chair, Dr. Bourdette, along with colleagues from the OHSU/OSU pharmacy program are working to study the effects of high medications costs of MS therapies with the hope of changing Medicare policies driving these changes.

A senior on Medicare with multiple sclerosis can expect to pay nearly $7,000 out of pocket for their MS therapies in 2019.

02/14/2019

Not completely ready for wide practice yet, but growing evidence that specific protocols using fMRI may aid in determining prognosis in coma and treatment of patients with altered consciousness.

Whole-brain analysis of resting-state functional MRI by independent component analysis may aid in accurate diagnosis of disorders of consciousness, prognosis of coma following an acute brain injury, as well as provide an opportunity for early therapeutic intervention of subclinical seizures.

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