11. Neurology Committee

Update for the neurology residents and fellows from the Neurology Residency Review Committee (NRRC).

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has the mission of improving the quality of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate medical education experience for physicians in training. The ACGME oversees 27 Residency Review Committees (RRC), including the Neurology Residency Review Committee (NRRC). Each RRC functions as the ACGME ...

Neurology

tion has a function to fulfill; each phenomenon therefore has a significance. This does not mean that it has a purpose; it was not made as a "part of an intelligent design". Barcroft's book not only makes delightful reading but it is also distinctly useful. In order to understand the bodily functions it is important to memorize the facts of physiology, but this task is made easier if the facts ...

[Neurology].

Aducanumab reduces the burden of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease, with significant improvement of clinical scores. Endovascular thrombectomy is recommended in patients with acute stroke with proximal occlusion of the anterior circulation. CGRP antagonists and botulinum toxin are effective in migraine. ZIKA virus infection has been linked to the Guillain-Barré syndrome. Edaravone has been...

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Neurology