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Dr. Michael Nochomovitz is always on the lookout for a new recruit.

After all, it’s been his job to oversee the hiring of numerous physicians and scientists as University Hospitals nears the end of its $1.2 billion renovation and expansion project known as Vision 2010 — and he still has a long way to go.

Assisting with that enormous task is Dr. Anthony Furlan, who was hired in January 2008 as chairman of the Neurology Department and co-director of UH’s Neurological Institute… In just 16 months, Dr. Furlan has recruited more than 25 doctors to the Neurological Institute and has created centers of excellence within the institute in an effort to align care along disease lines, Dr. Furlan said.

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According to the National Institutes of Health, 2.4 to 4.5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia in the elderly. While we know Alzheimer's disease gradually destroys a person's ability to think, reason or recall memories, there is no way to diagnose it without performing an autopsy, clearly too late to help doctors trying to help the person live with the ailment...Dr. Peter Whitehouse, founder of the University Memory and Aging Center at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, and author of "The Myth of Alzheimer's," approaches Alzheimer's as one of many natural courses of aging, rather than as a disease that requires immediate diagnosis...

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Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist, University Hospitals Case Medical Center...How one prepares visitors to visit with somebody who has a memory problem varies, of course, on the circumstance, on the person, on the visitor themselves...

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Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist, University Hospitals Case Medical Center… Hallucinations -- that is seeing things that aren't there, that other people don't see -- are not uncommon, they're not found in everybody. But, as the illness progresses, many people are disturbed by those kinds of things. However, I said disturbed, and it's important to realize that some people are not anxious and disturbed...

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...A still-unpublished study recently completed at University Hospitals Case Medical Center looked at how supplementation with fish oil, a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, may affect the progression of Alzheimer's disease...Lead investigator Paula Ogrocki, a neuropsychologist, doesn't know yet what the full data will show, but she's intrigued by the possibility...

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Technology being developed by a company with a Kalamazoo office is helping to foster a new way to attack brain tumors. The AutoLITT...technology is undergoing clinical trials on 10 patients at the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals at Case Western Medical Center in Cleveland
...Traditionally, brain tumors are treated by either surgical removal or noninvasive stereotactic radiosurgery, in which the tumor is treated with a precise dose of radiation that destroys it, said Dr. Andrew Sloan, a neurosurgeon at University Hospitals who, along with neurosurgeon Dr. Gene Barnett of Cleveland Clinic, is leading the investigation.

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Posted by Robert J. Ronis, M.D., Cleveland- Ronis is the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.

Ohio faces challenges reconciling a state budget "held together with bubble gum and Scotch tape" ("Ohio's budget is moving faster toward disaster," May 7) with critical needs of our citizens. While Thursday's paper characterizes a rally on the Statehouse lawn for mental health services as "business as usual," the previous day's edition highlights shortages of mental health providers "as state mental health budgets -- long under-funded -- are further threatened." ("Finding mental-illness treatment is hard," May 6).

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At colleges and universities across Northeast Ohio this is the grind time at the end of the semester. With term papers due and exams coming up back to back-to-back, the pressure is on for every student to perform…"It's the American way of everyone wanting a quick fix for an issue that is not a quick fix", said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, M.D. at his office near Beachwood, Ohio. A pediatric neurologist for University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Dr. Wiznitzer is a leading authority on the proper use of Adderall and Ritalin.

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Researchers are seeking volunteers to help determine whether a new drug will significantly slow the development of Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Alan Lerner, director of the Memory and Cognition Center at University Hospitals Neurological Unit, is the lead researcher in Cleveland for the experimental drug. Volunteers also are being recruited from 42 other cities...

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