Dr. Joseph Russell Madsen M.D.
Neurosurgeon
300 Longwood Ave Children's Hospital Boston MA, 02115Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Joseph Madsen is a neurosurgeon in Boston, Massachusetts and is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has been in practice for ...
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma MD
Harvard Medical School 1981
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Human theta oscillations exhibit task dependence during virtual maze navigation.
- Inosine stimulates extensive axon collateral growth in the rat corticospinal tract after injury.
- MRI signal changes in the white matter after corpus callosotomy.
- The living shunt: a tissue engineering approach in the treatment of hydrocephalus.
- Intrathecal baclofen for management of spastic cerebral palsy: multicenter trial.
- [Chronic inflammatory bowel disease--pathogenic concepts and therapeutic perspectives].
- Pathophysiology, prevention, and potential treatment of neural tube defects.
- [New therapies of chronic inflammatory bowel disease: anti-TNF antibodies and probiotics. The Danish Society of Gastroenterology].
- Gating of human theta oscillations by a working memory task.
- Distinct patterns of brain oscillations underlie two basic parameters of human maze learning.
- [Irritable colon].
- Gentle dorsal root retraction and dissection can cause areflexia: implications for intraoperative monitoring during "selective" partial dorsal rhizotomy.
- Vagus nerve stimulation therapy in pediatric patients with refractory epilepsy: retrospective study.
- Theta returns.
- [Paracetamol increases the risk of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage and perforation].
Clinical Trials
Awards
- 2011 Boston Super Doctors
- 2007 Boston Business Journal Cahampions in Health
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Lumecca
Fellowships
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - - Boston, Ma 1982
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