A heartwarming British Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2024 meeting. The legendary Prof Tipu Aziz receives the BSSFN’s inaugural Tipu Z Aziz medal for lifetime achievement and celebrates with his past trainees. #DBS @The_SBNS @e1v1m1 @stimbrains

Thank goodness people are waking up to the fact that there is a crisis for clinical research in the UK @FT High on the list are the bureaucratic processes that have become such an obstacle to getting things done

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @Brain1878 If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/issue…

1/Nothing strikes fear into a radiologist's heart like the question,“Is it safe to do an MRI on this pt w/an implanted device?” Do questions about pacemakers & MRIs suddenly send your heart racing? Never fear again! Here’s a thread on how to navigate implanted devices & MRI!

This time three years ago I was coming around in ICU in the London Clinic under the superb care of @eacp who gave me with dbs brain surgery a new lease of life. I’ll be forever grateful

£91,317 a year for an 'Assistant Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion' in the NHS. This amount of money, for this type of job, is honestly outrageous. Every penny spent on these roles, and the vast associated cost, should be directed into pockets of frontline staff.

They say three’s a crowd! Anatomy at the 3rd ventricle is crowded by important structures! How can YOU remember anatomy in this region? 3rd ventricle looks like a hedgehog. And that hedgehog can keep you from hedging about anatomy here! Here's how it can help you remember: Here are the important structure you need to know & how the hedgehog can help keep them straight: ➡️Anterior commissure is between the eyes (anterior = eyes) ➡️Posterior commissure is between the legs (posterior = legs) ➡️Hedgehog’s snout open onto the hypothalamus (snout = mouth & hypothalamus controls eating!) ➡️Mamillary bodies are near where the mammary glands would be in the hedgehog ➡️Lamina terminalis is along the nose—and where does your face TERMINATE? At the nose Now you know the hedgehog of the third ventricle & how to remember anatomy in this region. It’s as easy as one, two, three!

In this classic model on basal ganglia in PD, lack of dopamine via neuronal cell loss in the SNc leads to an excess of activity in the STN. This overstimulates the GPi/SNr and leads to a reduction of cortical neuronal activation required for movement. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

⚡ Wondering how to refer a patient for deep brain stimulation (#DBS)? Our Physician Locator tool is your go-to solution. Find suitable DBS experts effortlessly & ensure your patient receives the care they need. bostonsci.co/bOVZaX4zbJb #BSCEMEA #ParkinsonsAwarenessMonth

Rodeo stars find purpose in navigating primal forces. And none of them ever went harder than J.B. Mauney. But after one disastrous event in Idaho last year, Mauney had a tough decision to face: keep riding bulls while risking his life or retire from the sport he loved. wapo.st/44fIbmj

My spinal injury inspires my art. What inspires you? A lot of my anatomical paintings are based on my love for Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings from over 500 years ago! Can you spot my neck, spine and skull?

Proud of ex-colleague Mr @AnanShtaya FRCS speaking of #Neurosurgery in the #WestBank #conflict zone. True service. #BritishSpinalSurgeons

Such pseudowork has enjoyed a metaphorical life on anabolic steroids since it got into medical schools around 2003 & then spread/proliferated to all corners of the NHS Impossible to imagine a life without statutory/mandatory training or revalidation How did we do without it?

1/Correlate clinically! It’s harder than you think in THALAMUS—where its size is small & but the clinical symptoms are large. Here’s a thread to help you remember the main thalamic syndromes & their locations!

The life transforming power of #DBS for #Parkinsons . @ParkinsonsUK

1/Do questions about brainstem anatomy cause you to suddenly get a case of locked in syndrome?! Feeling brain dead when trying to localize in the brain stem? Do you try to localize the lesion or just wait for the MR? Here’s a thread to help w/brainstem anatomy & localization!

"Back then, scientists tried to publish interesting research, it didn't really matter where it was published, because other scientists actually READ the papers"

Ishihara et al. report that early lesion features following radiofrequency thalamotomy for #movementdisorders are best demarcated on T2-weighted MRI. @eacp @mrmikehart @franci_morgante @BryonyIshihara tinyurl.com/5b7e8m7a

Consultants in England have voted YES ✅in favour of continuing industrial action should the need arise. It’s important that consultants now vote in the referendum on the new Government pay offer. See the results of the re-ballot and the pay offer 👇 bma.org.uk/our-campaigns/con…

Great talk from Francesca Morgante. A definite need for greater collaboration and expansion of research into neuro degenerative conditions at SGUL involving clinical academic medics AND AHPs!! @StGeorgesUni #sgulresearchday