Because box jellyfish diverged from our part of the animal kingdom long ago, understanding their cognitive abilities could help scientists trace the evolution of learning. nyti.ms/3PQi7c3

This is a good one for #Neurology too, with respect to stroke etiology. Who knows the syndrome where this finding may or may not be associated with antiphospholipid antibodies?

Yes; great feature of an already great publication!

A word of warning to students taking the USMLE: Sometimes, strange things happen on test day. Maybe the center is noisy, or the power goes out, or the computer is acting weird. Whatever it is, YOU MUST REPORT IT TO THE TEST CENTER THAT DAY *and* TO THE NBME WITHIN 10 DAYS. 🧵

#Madison’s Capitol, 11/8/23.

Dr. Khalid Alsherbini presenting multimodal monitoring of the critically ill #stroke patient. Khalid AlSherbini #ANVC23 #ANVC #becausestrokepatientsdeservenothingless #strokecare #neurocriticalcare

Generation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons from human pluripotent stem cells go.nature.com/47zeEEK

Pleasure having Jared Cregg for a superb grand rounds talk on brainstem circuits for motor control! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Interesting article on micro-chimerism, with a quote from @UWSCRMC professor William J. Burlingham: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

It’s here! Continuum Audio is now available FREE on Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms. First podcasts out next week. Follow, rate, and review us! Trailer ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…

Did you miss the The Neurotransmitters newsletter last week? Then you're missing out on some great neuro content including a great conversation with Andreas Charidimou MD, PhD about #CAA and small vessel ischemic disease as well as our favorite neuro educational content from across the web this

1/Talk about twisting your back! Do spine vascular lesions make your brain feel as tangled as the dilated vessels you see? Want some information on malformations? Here’s a thread on spine vascular anatomy to give you durable knowledge on dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVF)

Remember that record-setting malpractice verdict involving delayed diagnosis of posterior circulation stroke? This was the CTA. You can see how it was a challenge that mimics bilateral fetal PCAs. Losing the left SCA is a clue that something's amiss at the basilar tip.

Proud to see our own Elizabeth Felton, MD, PhD, directing the Contemporary Clinical Issues Plenary Session at #AANAM!

It was a beautiful morning UW-Madison Arboretum!

Sony’s robot practicing doing stitches on a corn kernel:

UW Neurology: Not a hallucination. As for the below . . .

Winners of the #CMSC2024 #Design for #Rehabilitation award with Christopher Luzzio, MD of UW-Madison Neurology. The WPI team's device: "clip-on frictionless toe guard and complementary grabber to prevent 'foot drop' when moving between different surfaces." #MSResearch

Huge congrats to John Pluvinage John Pluvinage and the Wilson Lab on a really important discovery of a novel form of autoimmune vitamin B12 deficiency that preferentially affects the CNS science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A genomic test is the optimal way to rapidly diagnose central nervous system infections, 7-year performance data UC San Francisco in thousands of patients for metagenomics next-gen sequencing nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine @PBenoit93 chiulab stanford UCSF School of Medicine