STUDY. Certain patients who receive hospital care for coronavirus infection (COVID-19) exhibit clinical and neurochemical signs of brain injury, a University of Gothenburg study shows. In even moderate COVID-19 cases, finding and measuring a blood-based biomarker for brain damage proved to be possible. Some people infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 get only mild, cold-like symptoms, while others become severely ill and require hospital treatment. Among the latter, it has become…
Patients who had been waiting in operation queue died earlier
DOCTORAL THESIS. Early surgery improved both outcome and survival in patients with the neurological condition hydrocephalus, while mortality was higher in those who had to wait, according to a thesis from the University of Gothenburg. These results add to pressure on efforts to keep waiting lists for surgery short. Hydrocephalus (idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, iNPH) is a treatable neurological condition that causes gait problems, cognitive impairment or dementia, and incontinence.…
Hlin Kvartsberg authored the doctoral thesis of the year at Sahlgrenska Academy
PRIZE. Hlin Kvartsberg’s dissertation, where she identifies a new biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease, has been named Sahlgrenska Academy’s 2019 PhD Thesis of the Year. “It feels amazing! The dissertation is the result of nearly four years of hard work, which I’m very proud of it, so it feels wonderful that it is recognized in this way,” says Hlin Kvartsberg. What are you most proud of about your dissertation? “That…
Netha Hussain wins the 2020 Women in Open Source Award
PRIZE. Netha Hussain, who will soon publicly defend her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, is this year’s academic winner of the international Women in Open Source Award. She has been given the award for actively working for many years to improve Wikipedia’s content related to medicine. “Winning the Women in Open Source Award means a lot to me. I will be even more happy if people,…
Reduced obesity for weighted-vest wearers
STUDY. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg have found a new method of reducing human body weight and fat mass using weighted vests. The new study indicates that there is something comparable to built-in bathroom scales that contributes to keeping our body weight and, by the same token, fat mass constant. The researchers hypothesized that loading the vests with weights would result in a compensatory body-weight decrease. Sixty-nine people with…