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1/Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a radiologist like the question,“Is it safe to do an MRI on this patient w/an implanted device?”
Do questions about pacemakers & MRIs suddenly send your heart racing?
Never fear again! Here’s a thread navigating implanted devices & MRI!
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We are very pleased to share our newly published research, exploring objective and subjective neurocognitive functioning in people with functional motor symptoms (FMS) and functional seizures (FS) #FND 🧵👇 1/7
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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We studied 203 emergency presentations of dissociative seizures and came away with 3 lessons (paper just out in @jnnp_bmj)
dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2023…
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Pleased to share our newest publication exploring novel neuropsychiatric phenotypes in #FMD, supervised by @SarahLidstone @IntegratedMove. 🧵Here are some of the highlights! 1/9
Neuropsychiatric phenotypes in functional movement disorder
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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🤔Why does iron administration relieve symptoms of restless leg syndrome (RLS) in some patients?
Turns out BRAIN iron deficiency matters more.
Let's have a look.
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The Maryland Supreme Court ruled that firearms experts will no longer be able to testify that a bullet was fired from a particular gun. The decision is likely the first by a state supreme court to undercut the widespread forensic discipline of firearms ID reason.com/2023/06/22/maryla…
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The electronic medical record today is bloated and inaccurate, mainly because of rampant copying and pasting.
I wrote about this in @statnews. Here’s a short summary... (1)
statnews.com/2023/06/20/medi…
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"This survey revealed major gaps in knowledge, inaccurate perceptions, & management that differs from the current standard of care among ED providers caring for patients with FND".
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Thread:
I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.
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Functional neurological disorder is common in patients attending chronic pain clinics pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3722…
We know that chronic pain is a common comorbidity in those with FND. However, few studies have looked at FND in a population of patients with chronic pain.
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[Epilepsy and quantitative EEG] Vila-Vidal et al.: "Consistent spectral activation patterns in focal epilepsies discriminate the seizure onset zone with high effect sizes upon appropriate selection of frequency bands and activation periods."
doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.201…
#EEG
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The more I think about the Assyrian 9th C. BCE communication revolution switching from full journey messenger communication to a secure message-relay system, the more it reminds me of the internet revolution in the 20th C. CE - a thread.
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This is really quite funny
As far as I can tell, every single factual claim on this ridiculous meme is trivially wrong
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this means: until the union asks, don't boycott streaming or TV or whatever stuff you've decided you need to boycott. those are not asks the union has made at this time! They've asked for two things:
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Pretty remarkable that America temporarily constructed a safety net during Covid — including major health care coverage, food benefits, anti poverty funding for families & kids, etc — and then just systematically and slowly demolished it
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Just how much can ultrasonography reveal about the neurovascular health of the brain?
A whole freaking lot!!
A #ContinuumCase about a man with transient dizziness after doing heavy lifting in the yard. @ContinuumAAN @LyellJ


































