Dr. Edward W. Akeyson M.D.
Neurosurgeon
266 JOULE ST ALCOA TN, 37701About
Dr. Akeyson is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He attended medical school at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Baylor College of M ...
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1990
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Medial medullary contribution to tonic descending inhibition of visceral input.
- Splanchnic input to thoracic spinal neurons and its supraspinal modulation in the rat.
- Noradrenergic projections to brainstem nuclei: evidence for differential projections from noradrenergic subgroups.
- Spinal projections of renal afferent nerves in the rat.
- Processing of splanchnic and somatic input in thoracic spinal cord of the rat.
- Splanchnic and somatic afferent convergence on cervical spinal neurons of the
- Propofol-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease.
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