Professor, Neurology, University Massachusetts Medical School

Neurology

David Drachman is an expert in the field of Neurology. He researched medicine at NYU School of Medicine. David Drachman is also a published MD. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: A 69-year-old man with chronic dizziness. He is registered with Medicare.

Publications

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• Evaluating the Utility, Reliability, and Validity of a Resident Performance Evaluation Instrument.
• The amyloid hypothesis, time to move on: Amyloid is the downstream result, not cause, of Alzheimer's Disease.
• The use of a kiosk-model bilingual self-triage System in the pediatric emergency department.
• Predictors of Serious Bacterial Infections in Pediatric Burn Patients With Fever.
• Use of a silver-containing hydrofiber dressing for filling abscess cavity following incision and drainage in the emergency department: a randomized controlled trial.
• The taxonomy of primary progressive aphasia: it walks and quacks like a duck ... but which duck?
• Empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy with an aggressive de-escalation strategy does not induce gram-negative pathogen resistance in ventilator-associated pneumonia.
• The utility of diagnostic laparoscopy in the evaluation of anterior abdominal stab wounds.
• Memory and the Brain: beyond intracranial phrenology.
• Nature or nurture: education and the trajectory of declining brain function with age and Alzheimer Disease.
• Commentary on "a roadmap for the prevention of Dementia: the inaugural Leon Thal Symposium." Prevention of Dementia: roadmap or maintenance manual?
• The relationship of plasma glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin A1C levels among nonDiabetic trauma patients.
• Rethinking Alzheimer's Disease: the role of age-related changes.
• The optic nerve: a window into Diseases of the brain?
• Aging of the brain, entropy, and Alzheimer Disease.
• Robert Katzman and Alzheimer's Disease: an appreciation.
• Novel ubiquitin neuropathology in frontotemporal Dementia with valosin-containing protein gene mutations.
• Commentary on "Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: two decades of progress." Alzheimer's Disease: years of progress, and an army of researchers recruited; AD r...
• Do we have Brain to spare?
• Hat size, brain size, intelligence, and dementia: what morphometry can tell us about brain function and Disease.
• The treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: where have we been, and where are we going?
• Dementia, butterfly ballots, and voter competence.
• A method for the determination of drug effectiveness in onychomycosis. Trials with ketoconazole and griseofulvin ultramicrosize.
• The genetic defect causing familial Alzheimer's Disease maps on chromosome 21.
• Are the associations between Alzheimer's Disease and polymorphisms in the apolipoprotein E and the apolipoprotein CII genes due to linkage disequilibrium?
• Postmastectomy low-grade angiosarcoma. An unusual case clinically resembling a lymphangioma circumscriptum.
• The relationship of MMPI subtype membership to demographic variables and treatment outcome among substance misusers.
• The "memory cliff" beyond span in immediate recall.
• Pulmonary embolism at CT angiography: implications for appropriateness, cost, and radiation exposure in 2003 patients.
• Diagnosis and evaluation of Dementia.
• Familial inverted choreoathetosis.
• Memory impairment in the aged: storage versus retrieval deficit.
• Knowledge and attitudes regarding preconception care in a predominantly low-income Mexican American population.
• First report of the congressionally appointed Advisory Panel on Alzheimer's Disease.
• Statins and the risk of Dementia.
• Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease -- searching for a breakthrough, settling for less.
• Memory and cognitive function in the elderly. A preliminary trial of physostigmine.
• ERP indices and neuropsychological performance as predictors of functional outcome in Dementia.
• Ultrasound guidance for central venous catheter placement: results from the Central Line Emergency Access Registry Database.
• Civil commitment outcomes of incompetent defendants.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder: a review and meta-analysis.
• Memory and cognitive function in man: does the cholinergic System have a specific role?
• The remote myopathy of trichinosis.
• Cholinergic enhancement and REM sleep latency in the aged: lecithin does not reproduce physostigmine effect.
• Immunosuppression and the Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
• An approach to the dizzy patient.
• Risk factors for seizure-related motor vehicle crashes in patients with Epilepsy.
• New criteria for the diagnosis of vascular Dementia: do we know enough yet?
• A 69-year-old man with chronic dizziness.
• Human memory and the cholinergic System. A relationship to aging?
• From capitation to rhinocitation.
• Novel drug delivery Systems: opportunities and caveats.
• The effectiveness of grand rounds lectures in a community-based teaching hospital.
• Myocardial infarction, seizure and an abNormal head CT scan.
• Familial Alzheimer's Disease: site of mutation influences clinical phenotype.
• Ataxia associated with Hashimoto''s Disease: progressive non-familial adult onset cerebellar degeneration with autoimmune thyroiditis.
• Utilization of the propensity score method: an exploratory comparison of proxy-completed to self-completed responses in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey.
• Nulliparous term singleton vertex cesarean delivery rates: institutional and individual level predictors.
• Postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy and the risk of Alzheimer Disease.
• Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease: report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer'...
• Is computed tomography a reliable diagnostic modality in detecting placental injuries in the setting of acute trauma?
• Memory decline in the aged: treatment with lecithin and physostigmine.
• Aging, memory and the hippocampal complex.
• A double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study of tacrine for Alzheimer's Disease. The Tacrine Collaborative Study Group.
• Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele and the lifetime risk of Alzheimer's Disease. What physicians know, and what they should know.
• Memory and the hippocampal complexes. 3. Aging and temporal EEG abNormalities.
• If we live long enough, will we all be demented?
• Role of the dorsomedial nucleus of the thalamus in Alzheimer's Disease.
• Section of geriatric neurology.
• Motor neuron Disease and paraproteinemia.
• Active and passive P3 latency and psychometric performance: influence of age and individual differences.
• Incontinence and troublesome behaviors predict institutionalization in Dementia.
• Scald burns in young children--a review of Arizona burn center pediatric patients and a proposal for prevention in the Hispanic community.
• The etiology of Alzheimer's Disease: the pathogenesis of dementia. The role of neurotoxins.
• Alzheimer's Disease: what is it, how many people have it, and why do we need to know?
• Aging and the Brain: a new frontier.
• Alzheimer's Disease and aging: effects on perforant pathway perikarya and synapses.
• The indusium griseum: is it involved in Alzheimer's Disease?
• Vacuolar change in Alzheimer's Disease.
• Thalamic dementia and motor neuron Disease.
• Caretaker Obstreperous Behavior Rating Scale.
• Measuring Dementia: assessment of multiple deficit domains.
• Neuropsychological features of familial Alzheimer's Disease.
• The Caretaker Obstreperous-Behavior Rating Assessment (COBRA) Scale.
• Troublesome and disruptive behaviors in dementia. Relationships to diagnosis and Disease severity.
• Screening for Dementia: Cognitive Assessment Screening Test (CAST).
• Novel VCP mutations in inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget Disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia.
• Expression of heat shock proteins in Alzheimer's Disease.
• Synaptic loss in Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias.
• Tumor-associated aphasia in left hemisphere primary Brain tumors: the importance of age and tumor grade.
• Vascular amyloid deposition in Alzheimer's Disease. Neither necessary nor sufficient for the local formation of plaques or tangles.
• Primary progressive aphasia with focal neuronal achromasia.
• Rate of progression in familial Alzheimer's Disease.
• Psychological features in persons at risk for familial Alzheimer's Disease.
• The prognosis in Alzheimer's Disease. 'How far' rather than 'how fast' best predicts the course.
• The cognitive assessment screening test (CAST) for Dementia.
• Driving and Alzheimer's Disease: the risk of crashes.
• Familial and sporadic Alzheimer's Disease: neuropathology cannot exclude a final common pathway.
• Screening for Dementia in "real world" settings: the cognitive assessment screening test: CAST.
• Preventing and treating Alzheimer''s Disease: strategies and prospects.

Schools

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• New York University

• Duke Hospital

• Massachusetts General Hospital

• National Institute Health

Procedures Preformed

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• EEG (Electroencephalogram)

Conditions Treated

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Aneurysm
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Duke University Hospital
• NYU School of Medicine

Hospital

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• UMass Memorial Medical Center

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1144204207
NPPES Provider LastName		DRACHMAN
NPPES Provider FirstName		DAVID
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		016550002
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		Neurology
Total Claim Count		691.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1144204207
Last Name Of The Provider	DRACHMAN
First Name Of The Provider	DAVID
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