Erik Greb joined the staff of Neurology Reviews in January 2012. Since then, he has attended scientific conferences, conducted video interviews, and written about clinical research in multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and other neurologic disorders. In addition to news articles, Erik has written investigative stories about multiple sclerosis, headache, and epilepsy. He previously wrote about pharmaceutical manufacturing, drug formulation and delivery, quality assurance, and regulation for Pharmaceutical Technology.
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Should a normal-appearing hippocampus be resected in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy?
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- Erik Greb
BALTIMORE – Sparing the hippocampus is associated with a higher risk of early seizure recurrence and a lower risk of...
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Synaptic pruning deficits may cause tremor in essential tremor
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- Erik Greb
Mouse and human data indicate that insufficiency of glutamate receptor delta 2 may underlie the insufficient pruning and cerebellar oscillations...
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Comorbidity rates remain stable over 10 years in childhood-onset epilepsy
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- Erik Greb
BALTIMORE – Patients with epilepsy are at higher risk of psychiatric comorbidity than are controls, and the rate of...
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AED exposure from breastfeeding appears to be low
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- Erik Greb
Findings support breastfeeding by mothers with epilepsy who are taking AEDs, according to the researchers.
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Experts call to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act
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- Erik Greb
A neurologist and her colleagues propose changes with the goal of clarifying and harmonizing procedures for determining death by neurologic...
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Employment is associated with high likelihood of declining epilepsy surgery
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- Erik Greb
BALTIMORE – Case-control study probes the association between various demographic, disease-specific, and epilepsy-...
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Reduction in convulsive seizure frequency is associated with improved executive function in Dravet syndrome
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- Erik Greb
Baltimore – Prolonged periods of large reductions in convulsive seizure frequency may improve everyday deficits in...
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Outcomes of epilepsy surgery at 1 year may be better among older patients
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- Erik Greb
BALTIMORE – The decision about whether to offer epilepsy surgery should be based...
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Women with epilepsy less likely than controls to breastfeed
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- Erik Greb
BALTIMORE – Education by the treating neurologist and postpartum lactation support are positively associated with...
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CDC finds that efforts to reduce new HIV infections have stalled
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- Erik Greb
The agency has proposed a federal initiative to improve diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in areas of greatest need throughout the country.
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Headache may be a significant outcome of pediatric hemispherectomy
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- Erik Greb
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Most patients had headaches after hemispherectomy, and headache frequency increased for most...
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Use of PEP prophylaxis techniques may diverge from the evidence
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- Erik Greb
Fewer than half of endoscopists use rectal NSAIDs in patients at average risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis, despite the evidence that supports this...
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Use of PEP prophylaxis techniques may diverge from the evidence
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- Erik Greb
Fewer than half of endoscopists use rectal NSAIDs in patients at average risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis, despite the evidence that supports this...
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Benefits of focused ultrasound thalamotomy for essential tremor persist for 3 years
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- Erik Greb
Patients who undergo the procedure appear not to have progressive or delayed complications during long-term follow-up.
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Children may develop prolonged headache after concussion
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- Erik Greb
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Headache after pediatric concussion may present as migraine, chronic daily headache, tension-type...