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As a clinician, this news is extraordinarily exciting. Here's why. A brain computer interface is something that records neural activity in a person, and then decodes that neural ac…

For those interested, I have posted a relevant screening-exam paper on the main thread that asks the question, "what do we find if we scan the brains of 2000 people?": https://news…

I was inspired to spin-this out from a different post about full-body MRI scans. This paper is asking the question, "If I scan the brains of 2000 people, what can I expect to find?…

Of all of the points listed, their eusocial nature is (to me) the weirdest. A quick Google search [0] shows that eusocial organization actually manifests not only with behavior, bu…

Simulators are effective only as their verisimilitude. Certain neurosurgical procedures are well-reproduced using simulators (most notably the insertion of external ventricular dra…

The salaries of resident physicians are often available online. Here are some example salaries: https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/medicine/education/residency/... https://med.nyu.edu/…

I'm told by my anesthesia friends that it take about 6 weeks to train someone to be technically proficient at putting someone to sleep and waking them back up again. The five years…

Hyper-specialization has been an approach taken by the medical establishment. For instance, within the last decade, the "vascular surgery" specialty opened up as a specialty straig…

North American Neurosurgeon here. My opinions are based on my personal experience and my understanding of the literature. I am not an expert in residency well-being or work-hour re…

This is absolutely true. Another way of saying this is: at a population based level, a very cheap and effective way to decrease the incidence of spina bifida is by providing folate…

When we talk about clinical trials, we are often interested in answering (1) a primary outcome, which is articulated as a specific yes/no questions based on a measurable clinical o…

Neurosurgeon here (long-term HN browser and my post). If you're interested in prenatal surgery for spina bifida (more specifically: for myelomeningocele), check out the MOMS trial:…