Dr. James O. Mcnamara M.D.
Neurologist | Neurology
Dumc 3209 Durham NC, 27710About
Dr. James Mcnamara is a distinguished Neurologist in Durham, NC. Dr. Mcnamara specializes in diagnosing, treating, and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system. With expertise in handling complex conditions like epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and migraines, Dr. Mcnamara employs advanced techniques and personalized treatment plans to improve patient outcomes. As a neurologist, Dr. Mcnamara is committed to staying abreast of the latest developments in neurological research and therapies.
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Autoimmunity and neurological disease: antibody modulation of synaptic transmission.
- Experimental partial epileptogenesis.
- Immunohistochemical evidence of seizure-induced activation of trk receptors in the mossy fiber pathway of adult rat hippocampus.
- Emerging insights into the genesis of epilepsy.
- Seizure disorders in mutant mice: relevance to human epilepsies.
- Immunoglobulin G and complement immunoreactivity in the cerebral cortex of patients with Rasmussen's encephalitis.
- Evidence for glutamate receptor autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of Rasmussen encephalitis.
- Seizures, cell death, and mossy fiber sprouting in kainic acid-treated organotypic hippocampal cultures.
- Seizure outcome after temporal lobectomy for temporal lobe epilepsy: a Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.
- GluR3 autoantibodies destroy neural cells in a complement-dependent manner modulated by complement regulatory proteins.
- Synaptic connections from multiple subfields contribute to granule cell hyperexcitability in hippocampal slice cultures.
- Autoimmunity to munc-18 in Rasmussen's encephalitis.
- When do epileptic seizures really begin?
- Epilepsy and all that jazz.
- Plasmapheresis in Rasmussen's encephalitis. 1996.
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