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Rajapillai Pillai, MD, PhD

@rajapillaipill

Neuroscientist, Resident training in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Amateur Playwright
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This is a hard but important read. It outlines many cases of false confessions by people with intellectual disabilities and highlights how brutal the justice system can be towards these people: meridian.allenpress.com/idd/article/46…

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Happy to report that our paper from @BaystatePeds environmental health clinic is now online. We found that our patients with autism had higher lead levels on average, which may indicate that these children are at higher risk for lead poisoning. rdcu.be/c1lHb

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Applications are due soon for our new clinical fellowship in Pediatric Movement Disorders & Neurogenetics Boston Children's Harvard Medical School in collaboration wt MGH Neurology Parkinson's Disease Center at BIDMC. Pls see👇🏽. Come work wt us! #movementdisorders #neurogenetics #raredisease #RareDiseaseDay

Applications are due soon for our new clinical fellowship in Pediatric Movement Disorders &amp; Neurogenetics <a href="/BostonChildrens/">Boston Children's</a> <a href="/harvardmed/">Harvard Medical School</a> in collaboration wt <a href="/MGHNeurology/">MGH Neurology</a> <a href="/BIDMC_PD_Center/">Parkinson's Disease Center at BIDMC</a>. Pls see👇🏽. Come work wt us! #movementdisorders #neurogenetics #raredisease #RareDiseaseDay
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I agree with this. Both the videos and the reactions to them have been disconcerting. In general I have seen a trend of lumping groups of people together to score rhetorical points (e.g. anti-vax + malingering + people who suffer from FND) which I think can be quite harmful.

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Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh experienced long lead times to treatment for infantile spasms. This affects long term outcomes. Global equity work for IESS is needed! doi.org/10.1016/j.heli… Boston Children’s Child Neurology & NDD Residency Aris Hadjinicolaou IS Community

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Best of luck to all who are SOAPing. Congratulations to all who have matched. And biggest congratulations of all to those who did not match before but matched this year. Each and every one of you are deserving and badly needed.

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New case report out with my Baystate colleagues. The causality and mechanism discussed is very speculative, but hopefully it may prove useful for further study. authors.elsevier.com/a/1glKI3AjOwW8…

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Congratulations to everyone who matched, especially those who SOAP'd or applied multiple times. For those joining the #NDD field, it's a long but rewarding journey. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at any point or if you just want to talk things through.

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Thoughts on #BlackMirrorS6 so far: Joan is Awful: fun episode, though kind of just a mix of Twilight Zone's "What's in the Box?" and Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too from S5. Loch Henry: excellent and horrible. I actually had to pause the video and take a moment after the twist.

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Entering a whistling contest in Hollywood was definitely not something that my younger self would have expected me to do. Winning second place in the level two classical division, even less so. Very grateful to Masters Of Whistling for the wonderful opportunity and the new friends!

Entering a whistling contest in Hollywood was definitely not something that my younger self would have expected me to do. Winning second place in the level two classical division, even less so.

Very grateful to <a href="/MasterWhistling/">Masters Of Whistling</a>  for the wonderful opportunity and the new friends!
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I am excited to announce that I have somehow made it into the top 10 in the Global Whistling Competition! This is the final round and there is a People's Choice Award; come vote! Here's the Top Ten playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=… And here's the form: forms.gle/rVb3jqsJj5HkEx…