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PRIME Study Site Announcement
Friday, April 12, 2024 The first participant in Neuralink’s PRIME Study recently demonstrated the ability to use brain activity to command an external device. The successful procedure for...
Barrow Uses ‘Surgeon-Athlete’ Model When Training Neurosurgery Residents
Amid the Final Four frenzy, the college players on the court aren’t the only students learning stamina and teamwork through sports. Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix uses a...
Study Reveals Link Between Air Pollution, Incidence of Parkinson’s
A new study led by researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute has found that people living in regions with median levels of air pollution have a 56 percent greater risk...
Barrow Receives $16.7M NIH Award to Help Coordinate New National ALS Research Consortium
Barrow Neurological Institute has received a large award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help create and lead a groundbreaking and transformative national amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
Erroneous Genetic Sequence ID’d in Specific Cells of ALS, FTD Patients
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases with mean survival of two to five years and six to eight years, respectively. ALS is...