As we read #EEG studies, we look for specific brainwave patterns and rarely stop to think about the molecular/cellular events that are taking place to yield each component of the recording. This thread is a reminder of that! #MedEd #twEEGtorial #tweetorial #Neurology
1/ My favorite example is the focal epileptiform discharge. We’re very good at detecting focal spike/sharp waves on routine surface EEG studies. So good that we can train machines to teach themselves to recognize them fairly accurately! E.g. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
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Currently reading a study with one of my favorite findings, so let's play an EEG game:

If I will report this as "normal," what is the OLDEST this patient can be? Vote in the next tweet 👇! #Tweetorial to follow #MedEd #neurology #MedTwitter #FOAMed [Expand tweet to reveal poll if options not showing]

For this study to be normal, the patient must be UP TO:

Really cool new paper by our group! Much like the fingerprint on our fingertips, our brain's structural connectome may also tell individuals apart. We take it one step further and show that it can also help single out individual cognitive performance 1/n
sciencedirect.com/science/articl… We first scanned adults on 3 separate occasions: at baseline, a separate session in the same scanner 126.4 (SD = 102.8, range 12–442) days after the first scan and another session in a completely different scanner 158.4 (SD = 103.6, range 21–465) days after the first scan. 2/n