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		<title>DISCOVERIES IN NEUROSCIENCE September 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excessive stimulation of NMDA receptors, important in the pathogenesis of injury in the setting of stroke, epilepsy and global ischemia, can have opposing effects on neuronal survival or cell death.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=405&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR: Balancing risk and reward: the question of natalizumab September 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the pursuit of doing everything possible for all of our patients, we cause considerable harm to some.  Preventable medical errors, inexcusable causes of harm, have appropriately engaged the attention of all of us as the magnitude of this problem has become recognized...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=410&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Message from the Editor: Disparities in Care:  Guilty Until Proven Innocent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is little more grating than a study demonstrating that medical care is particularly suboptimal in minority populations.  Although many are comfortable acknowledging that the poor receive worse healthcare, few feel that racial differences in care quality are acceptable when access to care and socioeconomic issues are held constant.  Of course, the explanations for disparities may not be nefarious but due to underlying differences in risk factors, disease expression, or patient preferences, and clinicians may not be responsible.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=399&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DISCOVERIES IN NEUROSCIENCE August 2009 Translating omics into drug discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nanopeptide bradykinin is generated in stress conditions such as inflammation, trauma, burns, shock, and allergy. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=396&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NERVECENTER Lyme Wars Update: New Conn. Law Protects Physicians Treating ‘Chronic Lyme’</title>
		<link>http://annalsofneurology.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/nervecenter-lyme-wars-update-new-conn-law-protects-physicians-treating-%e2%80%98chronic-lyme%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Connecticut legislature has passed a new law designed specifically to protect physicians who treat “chronic Lyme disease” with long courses of IV antibiotics, an approach that contradicts recent clinical guidelines by the American Academy of Neurology and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=402&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journeys in Complex Genetics: Music and Mental Illness</title>
		<link>http://annalsofneurology.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/journeys-in-complex-genetics-music-and-mental-illness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As this issue of the Annals goes to press, the rock and roll pioneer Phil Spector goes to jail, likely for the rest of his life, convicted of the close range handgun murder of Lana Clarkson, a B-movie actress whose credits include Barbarian Queen and Amazon Women on the Moon...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=384&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Annals of Neurology 2008 Impact Factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Thomson Reuters Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has released the 2008 Journal Citation Report.  The Impact Factor for Annals of Neurology has increased to 9.935...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=387&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EMRs Positively Impact Neurology Practice, But Implementation Challenges Remain</title>
		<link>http://annalsofneurology.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/emrs-positively-impact-neurology-practice-but-implementation-challenges-remain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) designating $19 billion for healthcare information technology (IT), including $17 billion in financial incentives for physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic medical records (EMR) over the next five years, neurologists who currently don’t use this technology may be thinking about introducing it in the workplace.  While EMRs can provide neurologists and patients with many benefits, a number of challenges are also associated with these systems...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=310&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neural repolarization in schizophrenia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although evidence clearly indicates that genetic factors contribute to schizophrenia, it has been difficult to link specific gene variants with disease-related alterations in cognition, physiology, brain structure, or molecular signaling...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=323&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prostaglandin signaling promotes neuroinflamation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposite to previously reported results, Yao and colleagues demonstrate that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) engages the EP2 and EP4 receptors on T lymphocytes and dendritic cells to promote in vitro the differentiation and expansion of Th1 and Th17 helper T-cells...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=annalsofneurology.wordpress.com&blog=4296509&post=321&subd=annalsofneurology&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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