Fall 2007
Articles in this Issue
From Our Directors
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In this time of tremendous excitement in the neurosciences, we are exceptionally fortunate to have the right people in the right place at precisely the right time in science to translate into patient care the important discoveries now taking place.
Neuromuscular Disorders
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At The Johns Hopkins Myositis Center, specialists in muscle disease, including neurologists, rheumatologists and a pulmonologist treat adults with all forms of the disease.
Movement Disorders
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Deep Brain Stimulation is now a standard of care for Parkinson’s disease, but it also has broad implications for conditions as diverse as obsessive compulsive disorder, obesity and psychiatric disease.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
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Dr. Edward Ahn joins the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
Philanthropy
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Florence and Irving Sherman have given generously to Johns Hopkins over the last several decades, all with the express purpose of furthering neurological and neurosurgical research at Johns Hopkins.
Research
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Transverse Myelitis and Multiple Sclerosis are the focus of Johns Hopkins Project RESTORE, a research initiative that aims to rapidly develop new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for these two debilitating diseases.
Transverse Myelitis
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Faculty and staff at the Johns Hopkins TM Center are dramatically improving the treatments and care of TM patients.

