Dr. Karen Sterling Santacruz M.D.
Neuropathologist | Neuropathology
1 Veterans Drive Minneapolis MN, 55417About
Dr. Karen Santacruz is a Neuropsychiatrist practicing in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Santacruz studies, evaluates, diagnoses, and treats mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. Neuropsychiatrists are trained to treat disorders occurring in patients due to irritability, attention deficit disorder, epilepsy, and many other conditions.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Early diagnosis of dementia.
- Clinical presentations in monozygotic twins with dementia with Lewy bodies.
- Regional NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase activity in Alzheimer's disease.
- Minocycline neuroprotects, reduces microgliosis, and inhibits caspase protease expression early after spinal cord injury.
- Role of microsomal retinol/sterol dehydrogenase-like short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases in the oxidation and epimerization of 3alpha-hydroxysteroids in human tissues.
- Apolipoprotein e deficiency leads to altered brain uptake of alpha tocopherol injected into lateral cerebral ventricles.
- Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome: incidence of atypical regions of involvement and imaging findings.
- Acute toxic leukoencephalopathy: potential for reversibility clinically and on MRI with diffusion-weighted and FLAIR imaging.
- A Novel Preclinical Model of Moderate Primary Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Fatal Granulomatous Amebic Encephalitis Due to Balamuthia mandrillaris in New Mexico: A Case Report.
- Successful treatment of pituitary carcinoma with concurrent radiation, temozolomide, and bevacizumab after resection.
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