Ear surgeon-scientist @HopkinsMedicine, dad, husband, sci-fi lover, soccer coach, part-time historian and philosopher. views are my own.
Baltimore, MD
Joined March 2014
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Congratulations to @umiamient resident Diane Jung for receiving a CORE grant! @AAOHNS
Congratulations, Alex! You are a wunderbar wunderkind, but what's the equivalent for an adult, ausnahmetalent?
Congratulations to VUSM alum Alexander Chern (MD '18) on being named a 2024 @StatNews Wunderkind!
Now a Neurotology Fellow at @HopkinsMedicine @aychern's story is one of resilience, self-discovery, and passion for the overlap of health and music: bit.ly/4051WwQ
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Gd-based contrast agents (GBCA) can pass the blood-CSF-barrier (BCSFB) in the choroid plexus (CP) and enter ventricular CSF immediately after intravenous administration even in healthy human brains
fluidsbarrierscns.biomedcent…
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Circling is observed in many mouse vestibular disorder models but is often left unquantified. Our paper, led by Oliver Stanley @oliwhail, introduces a tool leveraging @DeepLabCut to automatically identify circling and facilitate behavioral quantification. nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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This crossover, double-blinded, placebo-controlled RCT out of @MUSC_OTOHNS assessed the efficacy of the SNRI venlafaxine in 40 patients with Ménière’s disease. There was no difference in number of episodes and QOL outcomes between groups. @JAMAOto
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I enjoyed just stumbling across Sam Rosen's setup for Stapes mobilization (1953, New York State Journal of Medicine). Thanks, Internet Archive!
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Should medical students be prohibited from using generative AI for residency applications?
We don't think so. Perspective with @jennyxchen @DrSarahNBowe in @JournalofGME #MedEd:
doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-23-00…
Congrats, Dianela! Wonderful work, and inspired by connecting on this platform.
Thrilled to publish our paper on the history of the neurectomy for Ménière’s Disease! Thanks @WardensMD for your mentorship and introduction to the rich world of the history of surgery.
Read on and enjoy these timeless photos of Dr. Dandy:
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#Bárány2024 meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, August 2024 starts with teaching day Saturday 24th August. 🙏@PresNCM for helping to organise. barany2024uppsala.com/teachi… @TheCullenLab @VestibularNeuro
This looks amazing. I wish I was still doing behavioral studies. Likely coming to a student science fair in the future. :)
🔮Ever wished you could just say what behavioral analysis you wanted? ... "Plot the animal's trajectory" "Count the head hips in the open arm"
👀🪄we present AmadeusGPT🎻 to do this ...
🗞@shaokaiyeah @jessy_lauer @zhoumu53 @trackingplumes and me arxiv.org/abs/2307.04858
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Understanding why is complicated. The solution is simple: enter the 7T MRI slowly. 🐌 🧲
New Research: Longer duration entry mitigates nystagmus and vertigo in 7-Tesla MRI: Introduction
Patients and technologists commonly describe vertigo, dizziness, and imbalance near high-field magnets, e.g., 7-Tesla (T) magnetic resonance… frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #Neurology
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Single-cell immune profiling of Meniere Disease patients support different clusters according to immune response @syd_health @KollingINST @ibsGRANADA @genyo_pts @CanalUGR sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Results "point to an inverse relationship between membrane thickness and fluid buildup." From: Understanding Inner Ear Fluid Buildup in Ménière’s Disease from HHF grantee Bryan Ward @WardensMD << 👏👏 hearinghealthfoundation.org/… #menieres #hearing #balance @HopkinsMedicine @KLKrems
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#AAIC23 While hearing aids did not have an impact on cognitive decline over 3 years in a general population, treating hearing loss protected against cognitive decline in older adults at greater risk of dementia, finds a new trial: hubs.li/Q01XYp_M0
ALT Research in context panel. Copyright: 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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1/Is remembering cerebellar anatomy making you dizzy?
Need help telling your flocculus from your nodule?
Here’s some help, w/an #anatomy #tweetorial on the 9 lobules of the vermis!
#medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudent #neurorad #radres
#neurosurgery #MedEd #neurotwitter
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Have you ever seen an owls ear?
Here is a Northern Saw-Whet Owl: their ears are huge in comparison to their body. You can even see the skeletal anatomy with the base of the eye
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In the 1950s tinnitus was occasionally treated with frontal lobotomy. Ménière's was the most common cause of tinnitus in a cohort of 20 patients: 1 died, 8 reported improvement, and 11 reported tinnitus was the same, but bothered them less #histmed #HistoryInMénièresDisease
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In 1939 for intractable Ménière's Dr Mollison would open the horizontal semicircular canal and inject alcohol to destroy balance function and stop vertigo attacks. Destructive procedures are still occasionally used today for Ménières Disease #HistoryInMénièresDisease #histmed
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How did Ancient Egyptians treat an earache? The Berlin Papyrus (~1350 BC) suggested applying an ointment of Labdanum (a plant resin). Modern studies demonstrate Labdanum has antimicrobial properties, suggesting it may have been effective for otitis externa #histmed #otohistory
