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Mark A. MacLean

PGY-6, Neurosurgery Resident; NREF Research Fellow; Dalhousie University
Verified email at dal.ca
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Memantine inhibits cortical spreading depolarization and improves neurovascular function following repetitive traumatic brain injury

MA MacLean, JH Muradov, R Greene… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) is a promising target for neuroprotective therapy in
traumatic brain injury (TBI). We explored the effect of NMDA receptor antagonism on …

Gender differences in the surgical management of lumbar degenerative disease: a scoping review

MA MacLean, CJ Touchette, JH Han… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2020 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Despite efforts toward achieving gender equality in clinical trial enrollment,
females are often underrepresented, and gender-specific data analysis is often unavailable. …

Systemic considerations for the surgical treatment of spinal metastatic disease: a scoping literature review

MA MacLean, CJ Touchette, M Georgiopoulos… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Systemic assessment is a pillar in the neurological, oncological, mechanical, and systemic (NOMS)
decision-making framework for the treatment of patients with spinal metastatic …

ComPAIR: A new online tool using adaptive comparative judgement to support learning with peer feedback

…, L Englund, J Charbonneau, MT MacLean… - … and Learning Inquiry, 2017 - cdm.ucalgary.ca
Peer feedback is a useful strategy in teaching and learning, but its effectiveness particularly
in introductory courses can be limited by the relative newness of students to both the body of …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial dysfunction underlies impaired neurovascular coupling following traumatic brain injury

…, K Andrews, C McKenna, NT Pham, MA MacLean… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) involves an acute injury (primary damage), which may evolve in
the hours to days after impact (secondary damage). Seizures and cortical spreading …

Rotational freedom of guest molecules in tetrahydrofuran clathrate hydrate, as determined by heat capacity measurements

MA White, MT MacLean - The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1985 - ACS Publications
Although it was thought for many years that very small guests take up structure I, recent
structural studies have shown that Ar and Kr fill the sixteen smaller cages of structure II. 3 …

[HTML][HTML] The Terwilliger algebra of an almost-bipartite P-and Q-polynomial association scheme

JS Caughman, MS MacLean, PM Terwilliger - Discrete mathematics, 2005 - Elsevier
Let Y denote a D-class symmetric association scheme with D⩾3, and suppose Y is almost-bipartite
P- and Q-polynomial. Let x denote a vertex of Y and let T=T(x) denote the …

Twelve tips for medical students to establish a collaborative flashcard project

M Hart-Matyas, A Taylor, HJ Lee, MA Maclean… - Medical …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Medical students employ various study strategies to master large amounts of information
during their medical education. Digital flashcards are an interactive, self-directed study stool …

Upright time during hospitalization for older inpatients: a prospective cohort study

…, DS Kehler, J Godin, K Mallery, MA MacLean… - Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background The purpose of this study was to examine: a) how long and how frequently
older hospitalized patients spend upright; b) whether duration and frequency of upright time …

[HTML][HTML] On bipartite distance-regular graphs with exactly two irreducible T-modules with endpoint two

MS MacLean, Š Miklavič - Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Let Γ denote a bipartite distance-regular graph with diameter D ≥ 4 and valency k ≥ 3 . Let
X denote the vertex set of Γ, and let A denote the adjacency matrix of Γ. For x ∈ X let T = T ( …