Department News
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Duke-UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Collaborative awarded major new funding as an NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
Areas of focus will include identifying age-related changes that impact the development, progression and experience of Alzheimer’s and related dementias, and how factors that arise in early- and mid-life contribute to racial, ethnic and geographic disparities in dementia.
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UNC Neurology Receives New Center of Excellence Designation
The Division of Neuromuscular Disorders has been designated as a GBS|CIDP Foundation International Center of Excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, and other inflammatory peripheral neuropathies.
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Neurology News – September 2021
What’s new in the Department of Neurology
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PGY-2 Resident Receives 2021 Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award
Second-year Adult Neurology resident Dr. Laura de Lima Xavier received the award during the 2021 UNC School of Medicine’s Whitehead Lecture and Awards ceremony on August 4.
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UNC Neurology Residency Programs
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Video: Implant offers options, normalcy for epilepsy patients
There are many people who deal with the minute-by-minute fear that they will lose control and experience an epileptic seizure, as between 2 and 3 million people in the United States have Epilepsy. Medication works for most people, while brain surgery is the answer for others, but a special brain implant may help those who have run out of options.