Movement Disorders fellow @WashUNeurology | alumnus @UNCneurology | @SimonyanLab @harvardmed 👩‍💻| @pucrs MD 🩺| Brain Imaging | #NeuroEthics⚡️🧠🔬 Gaúcha 🇧🇷
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12 Sep 2024
I had the privilege to attend the legendary @movedisorder Aspen course this year and interview Dr. @MichaelOkun
Here are some of my insights and takeaways ⬇️
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Outstanding work by Ivan Martinez-Valbuena, @GGKovacsBrain, and Tony Lang, now published in @NatureMedicine, demonstrating the value of 4R tau SAA for the diagnosis of PSP. Thrilled to have played a small role in this impactful study!
@WashUNeurology
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🚨🧠📚 Are you an early-career neurologist interested in education? Consider applying to the NEST, a new faculty development program to advance your career as a clinician-educator. Applications are due on July 15th. For more information, follow this link: nestneuro.vercel.app/
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May 21
In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests.
Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.17.… led by @tianchuzeng @kkli20111 @ZShaoshi @ten_photos 1/N
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Grateful to take my first step in formal ethics training through NITCEE. Thank you @AANmember @dilucadaniel @LauraXavierMD
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Wonderful work by @NeuroLinaO and @LauraXavierMD at the MDS-PAS meeting exploring social media perception of MRgFUS in ET.
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RT @NaturePortfolio: A recently discovered brain network that links cognition and actions may have an important role in Parkinson’s disease…
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Brain network responsible for Parkinson’s disease identified source.washu.edu/2026/02/bra…
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21 Nov 2024
Interested in migrating over and following people who treat and study movement disorders but not sure where to start?
Link (not exhaustive): go.bsky.app/F4ZDiMh
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12 Sep 2024
I had the privilege to attend the legendary @movedisorder Aspen course this year and interview Dr. @MichaelOkun
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19 Jun 2024
✨new PhD position ✨ related to neural control of pitch 🧠🗣️🎶 more info and application details here ➡️ rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us… Retweets are appreciated 🙏🏼
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6 May 2024
This is the worst natural catastrophe in the history of my region.
Hundreds of cities flooded, including my own.
100 people dead.
100.000 people displaced.
Millions affected.
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18 Apr 2024
What a grand way to celebrate the ending of our 4y journey together @UNCneurology 🧗🏻‍♀️
#Almost_Neurologists 🧠🧩
#AANAM @AANmember #NeuroTwitter
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15 Apr 2024
📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n
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6 Apr 2024
Attention: #Neurology departmental, division and program leadership!
Do you have IMG trainees you wish you could hire and/ or mentor better?
This is THE session to understand IMG-specific issues (including visas) and potential solutions.
Join us on Sunday at #AANAM
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15 Mar 2024
UNC Neurology is thrilled to announce the upcoming arrival of our new Adult & Child Neurology Residency Classes! We extend a warm welcome to all the incoming residents and look forward to collaborating closely with you throughout your residency!
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19 Sep 2023
So proud to stand among this amazing group of nerds @UNCneurology 🤓
Excited to join @WashUNeurology as a movement disorder fellow next year
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26 Aug 2023
Join us on September 19th from 6pm-7pm EST for our UNC Adult Neurology Residency Open House! Submit questions here ahead of time: buff.ly/44mdpqd and register here: buff.ly/3YPpnaO @NMatch2024 and @MatchNeuro #NeurotwitterNetwork #MatchNeuro #Neurology #Resident
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At #MDSCongress and interested in dysautonomia and PD? Stop by poster #1637
➡️ Patients with PD w Orthostatic Hypotension vs w/o showed disrupted connectivity within the Salience Network
➡️ The Central >> Peripheral Autonomic system might be driving dysautomia in PD
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