Can one buy mundane mushrooms in Paris groceries? #fancymushrooms
Stem cells are the NFTs of medicine.
Hugh Auchincloss, acting director of NIAID, says he is thinking of getting the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine focused on the XBB strain. Looking forward to getting mine!
A brain-computer interface is a “terminal.”
I was vice dean of a medical school with a large animal facility and a progressive ethical committee and what Musk says makes no sense.
Knuth’s books on TeX and Metafont are brilliant analysis of typesetting and font dynamics and the software supports more advanced (and aesthetically pleasing) typesetting and font scaling than the word processors I use today. You can find PDFs of these books online, I had old spiral-bound copies…
The computer scientist Donald Knuth in the 1970s became so frustrated with errors in the typesetting of his CS books that he spent several years developing a new system for scientific authors to layout equations and text. First released in 1978, I wrote my dissertation using TeX and Metafont.
I’m very proud of the Huntington’s Study Group: two of our trials were cited as highlights of the last year at the Movement Disorders Society’s annual congress. One drug got FDA approval.
Latency to REM was a measure used in this study that I sponsored that tracked common PSG metrics. I sponsored this study in a prior role at a funding agency. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28231027/
Insomnia symptoms, OSA, and subsequent poor sleep quality are prevalent in Parkinson's disease. In this single-center, exploratory study, we found that insomnia and poor sleep quality, but not OSA, pl...
It would be worth having some questions like “do you feel like you are safe during sleep?” or other predictors of vigilance. Also, time to first REM is an interesting metric, but has to be evaluated in context, such as with an Epworth questionnaire. It can be shorter for good and bad reasons.