When two-thirds of the people killed in Gaza are women and children, when you block humanitarian aid, you’re not just going after Hamas. You’re going after the entire Palestinian people.

❗️In Gaza:

🔴 34,000+ people killed
🔴 490+ medical staff killed
🔴 70,000+ people injured

📢 With more than 1 million people crammed into Rafah, the consequences of a military offensive would be catastrophic.

People in Gaza need an immediate and sustained ceasefire 👇

Wonderfull video highlighting the brain circuit mapping work of Maximilian U. Friedrich, one of our brilliant post-docs Center For Brain Circuit Therapeutics Brigham and Women's Neurology and recipient of a major grant to start his own lab back in Europe!
youtube.com/watch?v=gb2SZ6…

Join Dr. Gabor Kovacs Gabor G. Kovacs MD PhD FRCPC for Clinicopathology Conference of the Movement Disorders and Cognitive Neurology Clinics on May 3.

The meeting will take place via Zoom and will include a discussion of a clinic case study.

Learn more & register: ow.ly/oiA050Rnv4C

CRANIA scientist Dr. Lorraine Kalia is featured in the latest episode of the award-winning podcast #YourComplexBrain .

Dr. Kalia discusses how exercise can alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson's and slow its progression.

Listen to episode here: bit.ly/3WgAWsr

Xanomeline-trospium is efficacious & well tolerated in people with schizophrenia experiencing acute psychosis, finds EMERGENT-3 trial, and supports potential of xanomeline-trospium to be first in a putative new class of antipsychotic medications. ja.ma/4dkxa7q

I very much enjoyed the conversation with Mark Hallett about the early days of TMS, movement disorders & more.

– with guest questions by Mark George, Robert Chen, Michael Fox, Shan Siddiqi, Christos Ganos, Joseph Taylor & Joseph Claßen.

Could chronic exposure to tics lead to increased variability (noise) in voluntary actions? Can the brain compensate? What does this tell us about tics? Check out this work led by Lille Kurvits and Max-Philipp Stenner at the Movement Disorders Journal ! …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…

Dealing with disparities in antibody testing and treatment for movement disorders in underdeveloped regions - some suggestions but many difficult questions. Kailash Bhatia Bálint Bettina loom.ly/aHz2zys

Can epilepsy surgery halt - or even reverse - cognitive decline in children? 🧠👶

To answer this, we studied long-term neuropsychological trajectories before and after epilepsy surgery.

Honoured to have this published in Brain
🔗 tinyurl.com/2s3wu9u6

🧵Main findings:

#HistOfMed #MedHistory don’t miss out Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS)’s Boston Medical Library’s Estes Lecture supported by UMass Chan Medical School register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Always a sad moment when people leave the lab, even more so if they are rock stars like Simon Oxenford who was Ningfei Li & my first “real hire” and has just given a “farewell lecture” in the netstim labmeeting.

A brief fan-❤️ thread about Simon: 🧵

📢Don't miss an exciting #BSItalk by Dr. Andreas Horn (Andreas Horn ) on Friday, April 26th, 2024, at 1:00 PM ET.

Join us as he presents 'Can the human connectome guide brain stimulation?' 🧠🧠🧠

Tuoreessa tutkimuksessa osoitettiin, että Parkinsonin tautia sairastavilla on merkittäviä eroja kaikissa perustunteisiin liittyvissä kehollisissa tuntemuksissa suhteessa verrokkeihin. Erot olivat selvimmät vihan aiheuttamissa tuntemuksissa.

utu.fi/fi/ajankohtais…

On Apr 11 ( International #Parkinson Day) we’ll finally release “Slow Emotion” by Martha Johnson (Martha & the Muffins) & Fabio Dwyer Duarte.
A documentary produced in coll with University Health Network Krembil Brain Institute University of Toronto Parkinson Canada will describe this inspiring journey.
youtu.be/FiJp6e6lfMY?fe…

We are thrilled to celebrate the launch of 'Slow Emotion' a new song by Martha Johnson, featuring Dr. Alfonso Fasano and those living with #Parkinson 's.

This documentary is a University Health Network Parkinson Canada collab! #Parkinson sAwarenessMonth

Watch video: bit.ly/3TY27Fu

The Interventional Neuropsychiatry Group is hiring postdocs! Strong background in signal processing with cog neuro, comp modelling ideal but not necessary. Extensive studies across Cambridge and Shanghai along with existing data sets and a DBS and addiction study starting. Please…

Are we ready for unsupervised at home brain stimulation? Important trial of tDCS for depression shows it’s feasible, but the treatment itself was not effective. Important lessons for future at home brain stimulation trials.

I wrote this reflecting on burnout and our impossible lives, especially as women physicians. This essay is for my colleagues and the many heroes whose lives have been forever affected by COVID.

neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…

“We see gunshot wounds now in children from quadcopters, which are basically drones with guns.

And we have been seeing an alarming number of increasing infectious diseases, including hepatitis A outbreaks.” - Dr Amber Alayyan, MSF Deputy Programme Manager for the Middle East.…