Neuroscience Trend Forecasters
As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least— exciting research fads for the New Year.The Neurocritic: How do you guys predict today ' s most popular neuroscience trends? Trend Forecasters: Oh, well we have 4,000 computers, they ' re all big they all make charts and they beep LOUD.TN: Let ' s get started!In:posterior cingulate cortexHey Posterior Cingulate — we see you! You ' re fresh, you ' re mysterious, you ' re misunderstood. But we know you exist far beyond the default fashion mode. Thenew tripartite view proposes......that the bro...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Dr. Hilary Nickols: neuropathologist and artist
Hilary Nickols, MD, PhDFrom time to time, I feature neuropathologists who exhibit talents beyond the strict confines of neuropathology. For example, I recently features the inimitableMark Cohen and his prodigious classical guitar skills. I discovered another neuropathologist/artist during the recent annual meeting of the American Association of Neuropathologists: Hilary Nickols, MD, PhD, of Norton Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Nickols shared with me her detailed drawing of a craniotomy surgical field which she recently witnessed during a visit to the operating room.The scene in the operating room, including ...
Source: neuropathology blog - June 17, 2019 Category: Radiology Tags: neuropathologists Source Type: blogs
Scientists Translate Brain Signals Into Speech
Our brain signals are a window into our souls. More broadly, brain-computer interfaces that read those signals and accompanying algorithms that process the signals are the windows. Researchers at Columbia University have been working on trying to understand what our brains are thinking about, and in particular interpreting the signals produced by the auditory cortex into coherent speech.
The researchers have been using intracranial encephalography (iEEG), also known as electrocorticography (ECoG), which involves placing an implant directly onto the surface of the brain, to read the signals. Special algorithms, based on de...
Source: Medgadget - January 29, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry Rehab Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Visits The Medical Alley Innovation Summit in Minneapolis 2017
MedTech Strategist working together with The Medical Alley Association for the very first time brought their premier innovation summit to Minnesota, a place now considered by many to be the global epicenter of health innovation and care. Over the two-day long event more than 35 start-up and emerging medical companies presented their technologies and devices to representatives of leading venture capitalist and investment banks, and also to large medical device companies.
Considering that funding is of major importance to the field of medical innovation, this event gave both investors and entrepreneurs a chance to explore fu...
Source: Medgadget - October 19, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Kenan Raddawi Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 292
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Welcome to the 292nd LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
More excellence from LITFL’s own Andrew Davies as he interviews Colin McArthur, another ma...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 6, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
The Procedures Course
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
This week I participated as a learner in The Procedure Course. The course is run as a collaboration between The Alfred Trauma Unit, Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, National Trauma Research Institute and Monash University. It is a cadaver-based ‘hands on’ procedures course designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians to develop the mastery necessary to perform life-sight-and-limb-saving procedures when the time comes.
I’ve been involved i...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 21, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education alfred course emergency procedures Resuscitation Source Type: blogs
Does Senator McCain ’s blood clot explain his recent behavior?
Senator John McCain recently had surgery to “remove a blood clot above his left eye” according to a CNN report. CNN, fortunately, didn’t have a chance to wade into their familiar territory of fake news because they had a practicing neurosurgeon, and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta on hand to discuss Senator McCain’s surgery.
Despite the cheery description, “minimally invasive craniotomy,” this was brain surgery, opening the skull and removing something from the Senator’s brain. Nothing simple or minimal about this. Otherwise, neurosurgeons wouldn’t need many years of training to perform ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/brian-c-joondeph" rel="tag" > Brian C. Joondeph, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Neurology Source Type: blogs
FOUR Score: Coma scales and prognosis in the ICU
by Drew RosielleIn neuro-critical care, prediction of outcomes is often tricky because of the wide variability in the ability of the brain to recover and the usual long periods needed before seeing what is the limit of recovery. Most people are familiar with the Glasgow Coma Scale, but back in 2009 Mayo Clinic Proceedings published a study of the FOUR score), which presents some prognostic data for ICU patients. FOUR = ' Full Outline of UnResponsiveness. ' (It is also written as 4S. - Ed.)This was a single institution study (Mayo Rochester) primarily designed to investigate whether the FOUR score is a reliab...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 10, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: icu neuro open access prognosis rosielle Source Type: blogs
FOUR Score: Coma scales & prognosis in the ICU
by Drew RosielleIn neuro-critical care, prediction of outcomes is often tricky because of the wide variability in the ability of the brain to recover and the usual long periods needed before seeing what is the limit of recovery. Most people are familiar with the Glasgow Coma Scale, but back in 2009 Mayo Clinic Proceedings published a study of the FOUR score), which presents some prognostic data for ICU patients. FOUR = ' Full Outline of UnResponsiveness. ' (It is also written as 4S. - Ed.)This was a single institution study (Mayo Rochester) primarily designed to investigate whether the FOUR score is a reliab...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 10, 2016 Category: Palliative Care Tags: icu neuro open access prognosis rosielle Source Type: blogs
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes. . . . .
It's been a rough couple of weeks on the neurocritical care unit.Marcie left; she went to neurosurgery's clinic, to cat-herd all their patients into craniotomies and gamma radiation. Kitty is in Europe as a whole for a month--actually forty days--and I'm wondering what the f. I'm supposed to do without her, since I can't get the EKG printer to work correctly. Deej is going to work in a post-surgical ICU near The Schw.iest Mall Ever. And I'm left, oddly enough, as the nurse that everybody turns to when they have a question.I wasn't expecting this. First I was a new nurse, but with experience in places much weirder than Sunn...
Source: Head Nurse - May 18, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 064 Touch Surgery
TechTool review Touch Surgery on iOS and Android
The Touch Surgery app is unlike any app I’ve seen before. It simulates surgical procedures to allow teaching and testing of students and trainees. Touch Surgery has a huge team behind it who have created surgical simulation software. The procedures and operations contained in the app are authored by different surgeons from across the world.The aim is to develop a collaborative resource consisting of best surgical practice in order to share and learns with other health professionals
Website: – iTunes – Android – Website
Design
This app is ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 10, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: General Surgery Review Tech Tool android App iOs Touch Surgery Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 111
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 111
Question 1
You notice a unusual looking, reddish, fern-like design on a friend’s shoulder. You assume that it is a ‘henna tattoo’…but it is not. What is it, how did she get it and how long will it last?
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Lichtenberg figures
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 7, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Niall Hamilton Tags: Frivolous Friday Five cairo toe diazepam FFFF Lichtenberg figure mother little helper Rolling stones wada test Wharton's jelly Source Type: blogs
Politico: Electronic record errors growing issue in lawsuits
The indefatigable Arthur Allen of Politico.com has authored a nice piece on the issue of EHRs being a cause of medical malpractice, with resultant litigation. I was a contributor:Electronic record errors growing issue in lawsuitsBy Arthur Allen5/4/15 6:40 AM EDThttp://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/electronic-record-errors-growing-issue-in-lawsuits-117591.htmlMedical errors that can be traced to the automation of the U.S. health care system are increasingly an issue in medical malpractice lawsuits.Some of the doctors, attorneys and health IT experts involved in the litigation fear that safety and data integrity probl...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Arthur Allen healthcare IT litigation healthcare IT risk Politico Source Type: blogs
The Devil is in the Details
This is the first in a series of posts I intend to write about some of the nuances of clinical research and statistical techniques. The introduction is long winded, but I think it’s useful to try and explain why I think this is so important.Our current approach to clinical research has fundamental flawsIn 2014 clinical research forms the backbone of our medical practice. Unfortunately there is an increasing feeling that our systems of research have not been serving us as well as we think. Amongst the many excellent talks that came out of smaccGOLD in 2014 were a number of speakers highlighting the limitations and confli...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: David Denman Tags: Education clinical trials david denman devil in the details Evidence Based Medicine research Source Type: blogs
Dying with Dignity in the Intensive Care Unit – NEJM Poll
The New England Journal of Medicine is conducting a poll on an ICU case. Read the case below and decide how decisions should be made about this patient’s further treatment. Participate in the poll and, if you like, submit a comment supporting your choice. The editors’ recommendations will appear on the NEJM site along with a link to the related review article, on June 26.
Presentation of CaseA 77-year-old man whose medical history includes treated hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, previous heavy alcohol intake, and mild cognitive impairment required 15 days ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 12, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
