The Yale School of Medicine has an open spot for a 2-year ACGME-accredited Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowship for an appointment starting in July 2024. If anyone is interested, please feel free to have them reach out to me via email or Twitter!

Come check out our exciting docket at ASSC ! We'll have a tutorial on subcortical mechanisms of consciousness Jun 22 at 1PM and nine amazing lab members' presentations! For our full list, click here: docs.google.com/document/d/1p3… #neuroscience #consciousness #ASSC26

Congratulations Marinos!

Congratulations to our graduating residents of the class of 2023! We are so proud of you, and cannot wait to see what you will accomplish!

Bittersweet goodbye to our Mass General Brigham/HMS Neurology Residency seniors and Sashank Prasad our “graduating” PD. Even though most are staying as fellows, still an end of an era! Thanks for all the valuable neuro and life lessons this past year!

Check our new preprint just posted on our work modeling insulin sensitivity and secretion NIDDK

This #NeurologyEd Tweetable Teaching Image by Fábio Nascimento and Sandor Beniczky shows the 6 criteria of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) for identifying interictal epileptiform discharges on EEG. Read the full article: bit.ly/3BO8ra1 #MedEd

Medical interns will be starting their new careers this week. I think it's important for the public to know a few things about our new colleagues: 1) In teaching hospitals, we work as a team; interns ARE physicians who learn by watching, then doing, with graduated autonomy. 1/6

Simulation day 🧠! Part of our orientation for our rising NM1s/PGY2s is a day at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation in collaboration with our amazing APPs, RN staff and fellows from Brigham and Women's Neurology practicing the neuro exam, neurological emergencies and procedures 💉🩺

Death of pop icon Coco Lee sparks mental health discussion in China bbc.in/3NF3iXi

Brain MRI can be normal in ~60% of patients with AE! If the clinical context fits and alt dx appropriately excluded, you may still dx AE. At times PET Brain can provide further objective evidence as here - but also note it’s not highly specific overall so clinical acumen is 🔑!

Our new NM1s(PGY2s), Alex and Pooja, coming in hot: giving TNK during stroke codes within their first week as neurologists! We are so proud of them! In our program, NM1s can lead stroke codes in the ED from day 1 (under the watchful eye of a senior), saving brain in real time!

We mapped the connectivity of brainstem pathways that sustain human consciousness. A decade in the making... Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Ex vivo MRI: openneuro.org/datasets/ds004… Histology: histopath.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/images/?page=i… Atlas: datadryad.org/stash/dataset/… Code: github.com/ComaRecoveryLa…

Excellent new review on sleep disorders in Huntington’s Disease by our senior resident Sandra Saade 🌟 bound for Sleep & Movement training! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37424473/

OPEN HOUSE ALERT!!! Join us September 6th via zoom for our virtual open house 💻 Register and submit questions at the link in our bio 🔗 We can’t wait to meet you all- see you there!! 🧠

FREE educational presentation 9/26 3:30pm ET co-sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Sections of #GeriatricNeurology and #BehavioralNeurology & #Neuropsychiatry, as well as the Society of Behavioral & Cognitive Neurology. RTs appreciated. Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer Society of Canada aan.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Beautiful testimonial by Alan Ropper about Marty. A teacher, phenomenal neurologist and seasoned speaker, Marty was also always willing to help. He knew the names of every resident & loved to tell us the history behind what we do. He will be dearly missed. n.neurology.org/content/101/13…

Check out our residency open house from September 6 💻 Residents answered questions from prospective applicants and gave them a sneak peak into a day in the life of our residents! 🧠 Enjoy! bwhedtech.media.partners.org/programs2/neur…

Check out our new Neurology Journal NeuroImage, stemming from a discussion about an unusual imaging finding on a busy day in the MGH Neurocritical Care! Brian Edlow Mass General Brigham/HMS Neurology Residency MGH Neurology Brigham and Women's Neurology #NeuroTwitter n.neurology.org/content/early/…

Teaching Video NeuroImage: The Digiti Quinti Sign as the Sole Objective Sign of Mild Hemiparesis bit.ly/3uKwzdm #NeurologyRF #NeuroTwitter