It’s all set and ready to go! #SBNS2021 #Dundee Book your trip now sbns.org.uk/index.php/conf… Fantastic meeting being prepared. Finally face to face!🥂🥳🎉🎊 Great to see old friends, now both England and Scotland open. We will of course be encouraging you all to #staysafe

Great to be a part of this today, inspired by one of my close friends with #sicklecell. I also learnt a lot, did you know that ~ 1 in 79 babies born in the UK carry sickle cell trait? Sickle Cell Society website has loads of information and ways to get involved sicklecellsociety.org/about-sickle-c…

Excited to be running the #greatnorthrun in just a few days! And fundraising for ERUK is now @EpilepsyInst an amazing charity, please donate if you can justgiving.com/fundraising/me… Neurosciences @ NuTH

Really great to be back at an 'in person' conference again SBNS #SBNSDUNDEE2021 and catching up with lots of familiar faces #neurosurgery

Be who you needed when you were younger.

The first CT scan of a patient's brain was taken on this day in 1971. The images from these scans took over 2 hours to be processed by algebraic reconstruction techniques on a large computer.

Early nights all around for tomorrow's #LondonMarathon👟 The runners will undoubtedly be carb loading in preparation, and our staff will be in solidarity! We can’t wait to celebrate your perseverance in training for this 3x postponed race - GO #TeamERUK! epilepsyresearch.org.uk/support-us/eru…

Now live and free to access. Huge effort. Thank you all. We hope it is useful, informative, and thought-provoking. BJS commission on surgery and perioperative care post-COVID-19 ⁦BJS⁩ ⁦Young BJS⁩ ⁦BJS Open⁩ #some4surgery pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34624081/

1. Read and write more. 2. Don't hesitate to admit when you're wrong. 3. Be comfortable changing your opinion. 4. Find a mentor. 5. Stay teachable. 6. Make mistakes and learn. 7. Don't get offended easily. 8. Ask questions. 9. Spend time with nature. 10. Stay humble.

Humans are amazing communicators. In the blink of an eye, we respond in a conversation with another person. In our paper just out in nature, Gregg Castellucci identified a new interactive language planning hub we think is critical for this process. (1/8) rdcu.be/cEpmw

Anatomy Pearl 11: TEMPORAL BONE IMAGING ANATOMY 4th Slide: “Not so famous” Tiny Fissures & Sutures Be familiar with these not well known normal anatomical lucent lines- can be FRACTURE MIMICS #neurorad #radres #neurosurgery #neurology #FOAMed #Foamrad #Anatomy #otolaryngology

✅quick review of cortical malformations ty The Neuroradiologist #FOAMed #radiology #neurology #neurosurgery #SoME Penn Medicine Penn Medicine MD Penn Neurosurgery Penn Radiology Penn Anesthesia HT Mikel Shea Ehntholt

Non-invasive MR imaging of human brain lymphatic networks with connections to cervical lymph nodes nature.com/articles/s4146…

Parker et al. show that cortical spreading depolarization, blood-brain barrier dysfunction, and pro-inflammatory TGF β signalling are associated with severe outcomes following repetitive mild TBI. bit.ly/3EEGzEk

#COVID19 has changed the way we interact with our patients, with more remote consultations. We describe our experience with telemedicine in movement disorder #DBS patients in BMJ Innovations Neurosciences @ NuTH Akbar innovations.bmj.com/content/8/1/60

#COVID19 has changed the way we interact with our patients, with more remote consultations. We describe our experience with telemedicine in movement disorder #DBS patients in BMJ Innovations Neurosciences @ NuTH Akbar innovations.bmj.com/content/8/1/60

Word of the day is 'misken' (15th century): to refuse to recognise something by pretending it's not happening.

Implications for #neurosurgery and awake/asleep motor mapping? 🤯

Penfield’s motor homunculus anthropomorphizes the cerebral level of motor control – the upper motor neuron – but leaves the cranial & spinal motor neurons unrepresented. Ravits and Stack redress the imbalance by presenting a lower motor neuron homunculus. bit.ly/3GYnXnG