NI in the News

The Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio presented its John H. Budd, MD, Distinguised Membership Award for 2012 to UH Neurological Institute Co-Director Anthony J. Furlan, MD, April 27 at the Ritz-Carlton Cleveland.

Chairman Warren R. Selman, MD, and the company Surgical Theater LLC recently were featured on a local Cleveland television news station WEWS-TV.

“Parkinson’s is generally a degenerative disease of nerve cells,” said University Hospitals neurologist Dr. Benjamin Walter. “There are many different kinds of Parkinson’s, but it’s characterized by a loss in the body’s ability to produce dopamine, a chemical that’s important in many areas. Even in animal studies, energetic physical exercise increases growth factors in brain cells.”