Faculty Bibliography

Black Swan [Motion Picture] -- According to Malaspina, Nina's affliction is most consistent with a severely neurotic, obsessive-compulsive patient with features of a borderline personality disorder who suffers from 'mini-psychotic episodes.'

Little Fockers [Motion Picture] -- [...] beta blockers can sometimes precipitate impotence by preventing the penis from getting all the blood it needs to create and sustain an erection

127 Hours [Motion Picture] -- How could he then cut off his own arm with a pocket knife without fainting, going crazy with the pain or bleeding to death? -- The reality When faced with certain death, primordial instincts take over, says Dr. Leon Pachter, chief of surgery at New York University Langone Medical Center. Ralston said in his accounts that he had developed a 'compartment syndrome' from the trapped limb -- a condition in which the muscles, nerves and blood vessels are crushed together in a closed space

A CT scan of the brain must be performed right away and the blood or blood clot removed by a qualified neurosurgeon, says Dr. Billy Goldberg, assistant professor of emergency medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center.

Private Practice [Television Program] -- According to Engel, a probe that emits radio waves to destroy the scar is a very old and ineffective treatment that is no longer used and was never used for lesions in the cortex of the brain, like Sharon's

In Treatment [Television Program] -- [...] though Jesse's symptoms of impulsivity and obsessive-compulsive behavior (such as his sexual acting-out and excessive worrying about his relationships) are common in Tourette syndrome, he lacks the jerking movements and vocal tics (including snorting, barking or blurting words) that are often seen with the disease

Grey's Anatomy [Television Program] -- The reality There is a hierarchy among physicians at academic medical centers, with attending physicians at the top, then fellows, residents, interns and medical students, says Dr. James P. Bradley, chief of pediatric plastic surgery at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine

A month ago, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to the president of America's Health Insurance Plans stating that the impact on insurance premiums from 'the new consumer protections and increased quality provisions' of the new health reform law 'will be minimal ... no more than 1% to 2%.' The truth is, private health insurance is a low-profit industry, with profit margins of 4% compared with over 20% for major drug manufacturers

House [Television Program] -- House considers hypothyroidism -- but then Tanner suffers sudden paralysis, and House finally realizes that all her symptoms are due to a neck injury from an old car accident in which her leg was fractured and her son was killed