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Layperson/Plain Language Summaries: Can Sponsors, CROs, and Sites Deliver in 2020?
by Charles S. Wilcox, PhD, MPA, MBA; Leslie Franceschi, BA; and ADAM SIMMONS, MPH Dr. Wilcox is Chief Executive Officer at Praxis Research Consulting in Newport Beach, California. Ms. Franceschi is Senior Project Director at [...]
Risk Management: Top Five HIPAA Lessons Learned: A Review of HHS Resolution Agreements
by Justin Pope, JD Mr. Pope is an Associate Risk Manager at Professional Risk Management Services (PRMS). FUNDING: No funding was provided for the preparation of this article. DISCLOSURES: The author is an employee of [...]
Frontiers in Detecting Consciousness: The Growing Use of EEG Analysis
Dear Editors: There is growing scientific interest regarding the use of electroencephalogram (EEG) and multivariate analysis as a means to classify states of consciousness. A recent work assessed the validity of 28 potential EEG markers [...]
Role of Norepinephrine in Schizophrenia: An Old-fashioned but New Story from Emergency Medicine
Dear Editor: A number of hypotheses have been put forth regarding the etiology of schizophrenia, including dopamine hypothesis and glutamate hypothesis.1 However, a lesser known theory is that elevated norepinephrinergic signaling plays a causative role [...]
Editorial Message and Issue Highlights–Vol. 17, No. 4–6, April–June 2020
Dear Colleagues: Welcome to the April–June 2020 edition of Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience (ICNS). For 2020’s second quarterly issue of ICNS, we start with original research by Azizi et al titled, “The Epileptogenesis Property of [...]
Letter to the Editor: Is Dropped Head Syndrome in Sporadic Late-onset Nemaline Myopathy Always Untreatable?
Dear Editor: Dropped head syndrome (DHS) is a rare condition characterized by cervical paraspinal muscles weakness that causes a recognizable deformity with various degrees of “chin on chest” posture.1–3 Though the etiology of DHS is [...]
The Effects of G2013 (α-L-guluronic Acid) in a Pentylenetetrazole-induced Kindling Animal Model of Epilepsy
by Saeed Tahmasebi, PhD; Gholamreza Azizi, PhD; Hosein Miladi, MSc; Elham Shafiei, MD; Ali N. Kamali, PhD; Haleh Hamedifar PhD; Farimah Fayyaz, MD; Seyed Erfan Rasouli, BSc; Mostafa Kalvandi, MD; Hamed Mohammadi, PhD; Hadi Hassannia, [...]
Neurological Aspects of Corona Virus Infectious Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
by Nitin Butala Dr. Butala is a Neurologist and Neurophysiologist at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida and an Assistant professor of Neurology at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Bradenton, [...]