Brain Mapping Foundation (BMF) and Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) Present the 2014 Prestigious Pioneer in Healthcare Policy Award to Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott, the US Congressman Chaka Fattah and shed light on the importance of working as a consortium
BEVERLEY HILLS, Calif., Feb. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today, the Brain Mapping Foundation and the Society for Brain Mapping & Therapeutics announced the 2014 recipients of the prestigious Pioneer in Medicine Award, as well as their annual awards to recognize those who have made notable contributions to brain research in various ways, including the Healthcare Policy Award, Beacon […]
Blood Pressure Protein Could Rid Alzheimer’s Brain Of Amyloid Plaques
Alzheimer’s disease is undoubtedly a complex condition. Scientists still aren’t quite sure how it starts and there is no cure for it. But the processes that cause it to worsen, which include the formation of plaques and inflammation, may be possible to reverse, according to a new study. Researchers from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in […]
The Hidden Benefit of ACE: Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention
HEALTH NEWS The Hidden Benefit of ACE: Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention A new study shows that turning up the activity of a blood pressure protein can clear beta-amyloid plaques from the brain. Drugs that are currently approved to treat Alzheimer’s disease address the symptoms, but do little to stop the steady loss of mental ability in […]
Spotlight on PLOS ONE’s Neuromapping and Therapeutics Collection
Launched in 2010, the Neuromapping and Therapeutics Collection is a unique collaboration between PLOS ONE and the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics. The Neuromapping and Therapeutics Collection provides a forum for interdisciplinary research aimed at translation of knowledge across a number of fields such as neurosurgery, neurology, psychiatry, radiology, neuroscience, neuroengineering, and healthcare and policy issues that affect the […]
Dr. Ramin Rak Elected To Board Of Directors Of The Society For Brain Mapping And Therapeutics
Leading Neurosurgeon to Represent NY Area on the Board of Prominent International Scientific Group Aimed at Introducing Game-Changing Diagnostics, Treatments for Neurological Disorders; Will Chair 2018 World Congress for Brain Mapping in NY ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY – Leading neurosurgeon Ramin Rak, M.D., F.A.AN.S., F.A.C.S., Co-Surgical Director of the Long Island Brain Tumor Center at NSPC […]
Can we predict Alzheimer’s a decade before symptoms?
One day when she was 76 years old, Rosa Rodrigo took a wrong turn out of a shopping center parking lot and found she had no idea where to turn next. “It was a little scary because I didn’t remember where I came from, or where I was going,” she recalls. While Rodrigo and her […]
Breakthrough Device To Treat Neurological Disorders
Operating theaters may be using pioneering exploring technology in form of an ultraviolet camera in the future. The system, developed by neurosurgeons and researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute could, if it works, give surgeons a real-time view of changes that are invisible to the naked eye when focused […]
AusBiotech secures Australian first with world brain mapping congress
AusBiotech is pleased to announce that the 11th Annual World Congress of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) will be held in Australia for the first time in March 2014. The annual world congress is a multidisciplinary forum designed to facilitate cross-pollination amongst specialists and industry to further advances in brain and spinal cord […]
Aus to host first world brain mapping congress
Singapore: AusBiotech is holding 11th Annual World Congress of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) in Sydney, Australia, for the first time ever. The theme for the 2014 congress will be ‘Brain Therapeutics-bringing together engineering, science and medicine’. The program will highlight state-of-the-art science and technology in the field of neuroscience, engineering, neurosurgery, psychiatry, […]
Neurosurgery Chair Invited to Speak to Congressional Neuroscience Caucus May 10
Keith L. Black, MD, will describe an experimental, noninvasive method to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease before cognitive symptoms begin Los Angeles – May 8, 2013 – Keith L. Black, MD, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, will present information to the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus on a new, experimental method to provide early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. […]
