By Daan Viering “We are our brains.” If Dick Swaab is right, we can only discover who we are if we learn more about the complexities of our brain. From macroanatomy to microanatomy and back, scientists continuously invent new techniques to investigate how individual neurons work together to achieve the incredible performances of our brains. Recent advances in this field include methods to activate single neurons with ultrafast and extremely precise lasers (optogenetics) and mapping neuronal … [Lees meer...]
Sixth Edition!
The Sixth Edition of RAMS is now available! Read the November edition online, download the PDF version or find the RAMS in real life at the medical faculty building. Online version http://issuu.com/ramspublicrelations/docs/6e_editie_rams_marijn_definitief_cm/1 PDF version RAMS Sixth Edition November 2016 … [Lees meer...]
Symposium “Over mijn lijk” – Forensic Medicine
The Sherlock Holmes of the medical world: a forensic doctor. Still a relatively unknown profession, but certainly very important. RAMS is organizing a symposium with experts on forensic medicine. They will share their views from different perspectives, including child abuse, odontology and the assassination of Willem van Oranje. Do you want to find the last piece of this medical puzzle? Come to the RAMS Symposium Forensic Medicine on October 31st from 18:45h to 22:00h at the medical faculty! … [Lees meer...]
To fuse or not to fuse
By Sebastian Arts Lumbar stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal in the lumbar region, causing compression of the myelum. This results in lower back pain, neurogenic claudication and weakness and numbness in both legs. It is commonly caused by degeneration or osteoporosis and is associated with forward displacement of a vertebra called spondylolisthesis. Decompression through laminectomy is the first choice of treatment and is nowadays often supplemented with lumbar fusion (arthrodesis) … [Lees meer...]
RAMS Neurosurgery Summer School 2016 was a success!
The RAMS Neurosurgery Summer School 2016 has come to an end and it was a success! Thanks to all enthusiastic participants who made these two days incredible. Next year there will be another Summer School. Be there! … [Lees meer...]
The fifth edition is here!
The fifth edition of RAMS is now available. Read the June edition online, download the PDF or find the RAMS in real life at the medical faculty building. Online version https://issuu.com/ramspublicrelations/docs/5e_editie_rams_juni_2016?e=12363021/36494631 PDF version RAMS Fifth edition june 2016 … [Lees meer...]
The Enigmatic Zika Virus
By Cas van der Made For the past months, the Zika virus has been and is still a popular topic of interest among both the media and scientists. In February of this year, the World Health Organization declared the disease caused by the Zika virus as a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” as it had supposedly already spread to twenty countries in the Americas. Until then, most people had never even known the virus existed. History tells us that the mosquito-borne flavivirus was … [Lees meer...]