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Michael Schulder, MD

Vice-Chairman of Neurosurgery, North Shore University Hospital
Director, Brain Tumor Institute
Professor of Neurosurgery, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

Recent Posts By: Michael Schulder, MD

Ariel Sharon Won’t Wake Up

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Recent reports of evaluating former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) do not indicate that he is on the verge of awakening from a coma after his severe stroke seven years ago. For 20 years, fMRI has been a useful and often fascinating tool for neuroscientists to investigate… Read more »

Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Parkinson’s Patients Over Long Term

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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) appears to help people with Parkinson’s disease over the long term, according to a recent study published in Neurology. In the study, 159 people with Parkinson’s disease were randomly assigned to deep brain stimulation in either the lobus pallidus interna (GPi) region of the brain or the subthalamic nucleus (STN) region… Read more »

Singer Sheryl Crow’s Brain Tumor Diagnosis

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As reported in the news recently, singer Sheryl Crow has been diagnosed with a benign tumor called a meningioma, a tumor that occurs outside of the brain. These tumors grow from the lining of the brain, inside the skull known as the dura mater, making them less severe of a problem than tumors that arise… Read more »

Frequent Dental X-Rays Linked to Most Common Brain Tumor

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People who received frequent dental x-rays in the past have an increased risk of developing a meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed primary brain tumor, according to a recent study published in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. Researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven and Brigham and Women’s… Read more »