Institute of Clinical Medicine - News

Spinal cord stimulation is an effective and safe treatment for persistent lower extremity radicular nerve pain after spinal surgery, according to the doctoral thesis of Mette Nissen, MD.

In his PhD study, Toni Luokkala, Lic Med., investigated the soft tissue injuries related to elbow collateral ligaments and distal biceps tendon tears.

People with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are less likely to have cataract surgery than people without Alzheimer’s disease. The procedure rate starts to decrease already one year after the diagnosis.

A top-level international research team including researchers from the University of Eastern Finland has developed a new algorithm for the diagnostics of dementia.

The Proof of Concept ideas funded in 2021 included a functional biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, a mathematic algorithm for the personalized prediction of aortic rupture, and enzymes cleaving biomass fibers.

A recent study by the University of Eastern Finland shows that loneliness among middle-aged men is associated with an increased risk of cancer.

The University of Eastern Finland has received EU funding to recruit 14 doctoral students into a four-year multidisciplinary Neuro-Innovation PhD programme, which will be implemented on the Kuopio campus.

In heavy-drinking participants, magnetic resonance imaging revealed changes in the volume of posterior cerebellar lobules. These areas of the brain are associated with motor and cognitive functions.

The aim of the new national competence network is to increase cooperation between universities, hospitals, and the business worlds and to make Finnish neuroscience know-how visible internationally.