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Bodily sense and sensibility: anosognosia, asomatognosia and anorexia
Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou PhD, is a Reader in Psychodynamic Neuroscience at the Psychology and Language Sciences Division, University College London. Funded by a Starting Investigator Grant from the European Research Council for the project ‘Bodily Self’, she runs KatLab, a group of researchers and students that conduct studies on topics and disorders that lie at the borders between neurology and psychology. See here for publications and our Lab's Campaign on further funding on ‘Body Image’ Neuroscientific Research: http://www.fotopoulou.com Katerina is also the Director of the London Neurops...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - August 13, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Tags: Stroke, Eating disorders PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS - DAY 2 Source Type: research

Oral anticoagulant prescribing in a hyperacute stroke unit
Conclusion Currently, renal impairment is the main determinant for thromboprophylaxis choice. Local guidelines have been created with physician education underway and re-audit planned in 3 months. The authors will present the full data.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - October 14, 2015 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Samani, A., Kayani, M., Asokanathan, A. Tags: Stroke Thur 21, Parallel session 5: Therapeutics Source Type: research

Setting up an undergraduate neurology teaching day: 7 steps
The University of Bristol medicine course has one of the shortest neurology placements nationally, just one week. This is despite stroke being the 2nd most common cause of death and neurological illness accounting for 20% of acute medical admissions. Neurology training is set to be reduced even further by GMC regulations limiting clinical placements to the first four years with the final year as a "student assistantship". In response to this we setup an independent, neurology teaching day held annually for 90 students. This is currently in its 2nd year, oversubscribed and free to attend. The overarching aim was to eradicat...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - November 14, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Sharma, K. Tags: Stroke ABN Annual Meeting, 17-19 May 2016, The Brighton Centre, Brighton Source Type: research

Is there anything distinctive about epileptic deja vu?
Conclusions Déjà vu is common and qualitatively similar whether it occurs as an epileptic aura or normal phenomenon. However ictal déjà vu occurs more frequently and is accompanied by several distinctive features. It is distinguished primarily by ‘the company it keeps’.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - January 17, 2014 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Warren-Gash, C., Zeman, A. Tags: Epilepsy and seizures, Headache (including migraine), Pain (neurology), Stroke Neuropsychiatry Source Type: research

Augmented reality dynamic holography for neurology
Conclusion Dynamic holography has been applied to common neurological topics as short presentations to medical students. ARDH was well received and represents a new educational tool for teaching complex topics.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - September 9, 2014 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Lelos, N., Campos, P., Sugand, K., Bailey, C., Mirza, K. Tags: Abstracts Source Type: research