neuroscience


May 4, 2017

With Time on His Side, NLR Man Survives Stroke

Katrina Dupins

May 4, 2017 | If his family had waited just half an hour more, the prognosis for 91-year-old Wayne Harris would not have been promising. One Saturday afternoon in early March, Cathy Harris was sorting clothes while her husband of 35 years was finishing a meal. “I could see him at the table and he…


August 2, 2012

Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Cabot Man

Jon Parham

Aug. 2, 2012 | In the neurology clinic at the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), W. Steven Metzer, M.D., performs the initial programming of Tommy Rickman’s deep brain stimulator. </s


June 2, 2010

Brain Mechanism Could Be Key to New Stimulants, Anesthetics

Jon Parham

<span class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK – A brain mechanism involved in both dreaming and waking from sleep may hold the key to new, more effective anesthetics and stimulants, reported neuroscientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).</span>