Dr. Dennis Alan Turner MA, MD
Neurosurgeon
Room 4530, Duke South Blue Zone, Box 3807 Duke University Medi Durham NC, 27710Rating
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Dr. Dennis Turner practices Neurological Surgery in Durham, NC. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Turner prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1975
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Two different mechanisms underlie reversible, intrinsic optical signals in rat hippocampal slices.
- Observer variability in assessing lumbar spinal stenosis severity on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation to cross-sectional spinal canal area.
- Ensemble recordings of human subcortical neurons as a source of motor control signals for a brain-machine interface.
- Prospective analysis of incidence and risk factors of dysphagia in spine surgery patients: comparison of anterior cervical, posterior cervical, and lumbar procedures.
- National trends in surgical procedures for degenerative cervical spine disease: 1990-2000.
- Optical and pharmacological tools to investigate the role of mitochondria during oxidative stress and neurodegeneration.
- NADH hyperoxidation correlates with enhanced susceptibility of aged rats to hypoxia.
- Changes in intracranial pressure associated with chest physiotherapy.
- Differences in O2 availability resolve the apparent discrepancies in metabolic intrinsic optical signals in vivo and in vitro.
- Effects of relative hypoglycemia on LTP and NADH imaging in rat hippocampal slices.
- Lactate uptake contributes to the NAD(P)H biphasic response and tissue oxygen response during synaptic stimulation in area CA1 of rat hippocampal slices.
- The development of brain-machine interface neuroprosthetic devices.
- Tremor varies as a function of the temporal regularity of deep brain stimulation.
- A fully implantable 96-channel neural data acquisition system.
- Intracranial pressure waveform analysis during rest and suctioning.
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