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Learning of the day:🧠🥸🤓 #Terminology #Neurology #NeuroTwitter #LewyBody #Teaching #EndNeurophobia Lewy body dementia ☂️ term 🟰 Dementia with Lewy bodies + Parkinson's disease dementia Lewy body disease = Pahtological findings 🔬 New 🧵 soon...

Probably the easiest measure to visualise clinically from Clarity, ADAS-cog14. Difference between lecanemab and placebo of 1.4 points on a 90 point scale.

Great job RMR!

A selfie with Dr Sandra Black, my fellowship supervisor. It’s been a wonderful year of learning and work in the Cognitive and Movement disorders program at Sunnybrook! Truly privileged to be a part of Dr Black’s team.

The whole gang.

What are the Parkinson's gait strategies? Using external cues Using internal cues Changing Balance requirements Altering the mental state Motor imagery New walking pattern Bike, skate, crawl jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

A group of very international cognitive neurologists 🧠 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 #NeurologyWitihoutBorders #NeuroTwitter

The whole gang (almost) 🧠 #CognitiveFellows #UofT #DoctorB

Hot off the press! My work in Early onset Parkinson’s disease at Nimhans. Impact of Non-motor symptoms on Quality of Life in patients with Early-onset Parkinson’s disease | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4aYqRp5

New article 📖 🚨 #VCI #Neurology #CognitiveNeurology Stroke.2024 Jan 12. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.042756 Practical and bullet points 🔫 about VCI A 🧵might follow Your opinion is much appreciated 🙏 Andreas Charidimou MD, PhD Claudio Alejandro 🕎 Pablo Amaya Andrew Micieli

In this study, a wide range of risk factors were associated with young-onset dementia among UK Biobank participants; targeted interventions may prove effective for dementia prevention in middle-aged adults. ja.ma/49xVe44

Have skin biopsies now arrived with data to show reliable detection of phosphorylated α-synuclein in folks w/ synucleinopathies such as Parkinson's? YEP. Chris Gibbons in JAMA just published the results from his large NIH trial and it is a must read. Key Points: - The

Check out this new paper on brain- and body-first Parkinson's disease by Ray Dorsey, MD Borghammer and colleagues. Nice discussion and great figures. Key Points: - Models showing alpha-synuclein pathology usually begins in either the olfactory system or the enteric nervous

A beautiful old large tree on Prabhat Rd Lane No 9 chopped off by a reputed builder with several projects in the area. Mind you this is outside on public land. At this rate, whatever greenery is left - will be gone in less than a decade. 😡 Rules are only for those without reach.

One big mystery in Kothrud area is the facade of Yashwantrao Chavan Natya Gruha. For the longest time it appears to be stuck in some sort of mysterious renovation project that is either abandoned or moving at snails place. Similarly, recent tweets have highlighted the

Brain inflammation co-localizes highly with tau in mild cognitive impairment due to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease academic.oup.com/brain/advance-…

Can internet use become addictive? A 2022 #SciencePerspective discusses the addictive potential of the #internet and how it can be best conceptualized and evaluated. scim.ag/7KU #WorldBrainDay

Current projections estimate 153 million people will be living with dementia by 2050. Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, suggests new report from a standing Lancet Commission: buff.ly/46nvoPR

Ever wonder if stress granules are intrinsically good or bad in neurodegeneration? Our new paper uses a unique tool to address this question: an alphavirus protein that blocks dimerization of G3BP but does not impact global protein translation. academic.oup.com/nar/article/do…