Very much looking forward to welcoming you, your lab members, associates and the institute in Cologne. Exciting times for us too!

Excited to introduce our database of icons for MDS-UPDRS-III items in Parkinson’s disease! Available at osf.io/ybcah/ in various formats for easy edits. We hope these icons help enhancing science communication. Big thanks to @andreashorn.org, @lukasgoede.bsky.social and the patients for their input!

This tool reminds us of how humbling the practice of medicine can be. Ideally, we would like to speak – una voce – with one voice especially when recommending DBS. There may however, be a paucity of data available in small disease cohorts or in those w/ rare gene mutations.
dbsmatchmaker.com

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (w/m/d) zur Promotion Zur Unterstützung unseres stark wachsenden Teams suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt:

We are hiring: PhD in an exciting project investigating electrophysiological markers of impulsivity in Parkinson's Disease

If you are interested in translational neuroscience/psychology this might be an interesting opportunity!

jobs-uk-koeln.onlyfy.jobs/job/4mhpf1ns...

GitHub - ethanwillis/zotero-scihub: A plugin that will automatically download PDFs of zotero items from sci-hub A plugin that will automatically download PDFs of zotero items from sci-hub - ethanwillis/zotero-scihub

Sci Hub integration for Zotero and Zotfile are my favorite tools to get and manage PDFs in Zotero (besides the mentioned Zoter connector for your browser)
github.com/ethanwillis/...
zotfile.com

Shout out to Carlos for seeing SCAN and CON, linking it immediately to DBS in Tourette's patients and investigating his idea in this exciting study!

Love the "friends don't let friends..." repo for data visualization - one of my most cited when reviewing - and now updated for histograms

Special thanks to @tilldembek.bsky.social, @vvvcologne.bsky.social and the management team for their support and having me on board!

DFG to Fund Seven New Collaborative Research Centres

Excited to join the PI team of CRC 1451 "Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease" in its just announced 2nd funding period. If you are interested in the CRC's impressive work during the 1st funding period check out www.crc1451.uni-koeln.de.

www.dfg.de/en/service/p...

Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury - Nature Medicine Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain stimulation therapy that augments the recover...

Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury (SCI). #NatureMedicine #medsky #scisky

"Targeting specific brain regions to maximize the engagement of spinal cord-projecting neurons in the recovery of neurological functions after SCI."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied during sleep modify memory consolidation in Parkinson's? YES. It has long been pondered that low frequency stimulation could be a 'key' to improving cognition and thinking. Setting the device to be on at 4 Hz for 25 minutes in NREM? Wow!

Thx for raising the awareness on this topic! Any recommendation for a tool or procedure to check for chatGPT/AI involvement in this particular case that was helpful for you?

Funktionelle neurologische Störungen - Warum zuckt Tülay? YouTube video by ueberschuesse // Agentur für Überschüsse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wQ...

A well-made educational film about functional tics in German.

A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood Nature Reviews Psychology - Optimism declines across early childhood, but there is no theoretical account for why such changes occur. In this Perspective, Leonard and Sommerville discuss and...

How can we as society, caregivers and parents support that optimism as an important driver of brave and positive developments is enhanced in following generations? Really inspiring read! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Well - maybe the truth is somewhere in between. But I'm excited to find out more about YOUR work, thoughts and opinions here at @bsky.app 🌈

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What I actually do...

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What my children think I do...

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What Clinicians think I do...

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What Scientists think I do...

Being new to @bsky.app I made a quick poll asking others about how to introduce my work as a clinician neuroscientist. Here are the results 🥁