AJ Lees
@ajlees.bsky.social
Professor of Neurology, National Hospital Queen Square, Institute of Neurology, UCL
Writer, Rare Soul,
Writer, Rare Soul,
I found seeing patients, avoiding functions and committees, walking & listening to music & reading about important developments a way of reducing angst and creating flux.
I didn’t have electronic health records which allowed me time to think and carry out clinical research
I didn’t have electronic health records which allowed me time to think and carry out clinical research
December 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I found seeing patients, avoiding functions and committees, walking & listening to music & reading about important developments a way of reducing angst and creating flux.
I didn’t have electronic health records which allowed me time to think and carry out clinical research
I didn’t have electronic health records which allowed me time to think and carry out clinical research
Errors of omission are looked on by society as heinous while errors of commission are brushed under the carpet - wastage is never punished
December 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Errors of omission are looked on by society as heinous while errors of commission are brushed under the carpet - wastage is never punished
Sometimes when i test large language models with questions relative to neurological practice they come back with the sort of ill informed peacockian response one used to hear in the days of diva doctors. I call them Sprattisms
December 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sometimes when i test large language models with questions relative to neurological practice they come back with the sort of ill informed peacockian response one used to hear in the days of diva doctors. I call them Sprattisms
Errors of omission are looked on by society as heinous while errors of commission are brushed under the carpet - wastage is never punished
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Errors of omission are looked on by society as heinous while errors of commission are brushed under the carpet - wastage is never punished
Winter scene as i travel the paths from Highgate to Hampstead. Murders of crows, the odd jay, robin song everywhere. Jimmy Ruffin brain worm
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Winter scene as i travel the paths from Highgate to Hampstead. Murders of crows, the odd jay, robin song everywhere. Jimmy Ruffin brain worm
I have a major advantage over large language models. I can say I don’t know to my patients and watch and wait to
get them better
get them better
December 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I have a major advantage over large language models. I can say I don’t know to my patients and watch and wait to
get them better
get them better
For me medicine has always been a privilege and highly satisfying but i was given the opportunity to spend most of my time on patient care and clinical research, had mentors and a supportive firm system
The resident doctors have been denied this by a disrespectful society.
The resident doctors have been denied this by a disrespectful society.
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
For me medicine has always been a privilege and highly satisfying but i was given the opportunity to spend most of my time on patient care and clinical research, had mentors and a supportive firm system
The resident doctors have been denied this by a disrespectful society.
The resident doctors have been denied this by a disrespectful society.
Neurologists who believe the literature began with the internet are not only missing out but repeating in print what is already known. Perhaps it doesn’t matter but it does to me
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Neurologists who believe the literature began with the internet are not only missing out but repeating in print what is already known. Perhaps it doesn’t matter but it does to me
Reposted by AJ Lees
"Moving to the music had helped me rebuild and resynchronise. The trip to Soul Town told me I needed to take more time out to dance on the edge of volcanoes and spend time watching the sunbeams flirt with the shadows."
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Moving to the music had helped me rebuild and resynchronise. The trip to Soul Town told me I needed to take more time out to dance on the edge of volcanoes and spend time watching the sunbeams flirt with the shadows."
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"The music seemed timeless. Soon I was floating out on the floor, feeling the syncopated horns and strings, galvanising my thinning muscles. I was still the old modernist, making moves I didn’t know I still had in me."
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
Tangerine Coast by A.J. Lees
The North Shore, Blackpool. All photos by Stefan Svennson. Every year, in the last week of June, the mills, engine rooms, and coal mines in Oldham closed down, and an exodus followed. My great-gran…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The music seemed timeless. Soon I was floating out on the floor, feeling the syncopated horns and strings, galvanising my thinning muscles. I was still the old modernist, making moves I didn’t know I still had in me."
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
A.J. Lees regains his Northern Soul in Blackpool.
@thearsonista.bsky.social
My essay about a quest for authenticity with thanks to my editor @ccohanlon and publisher @thearsonista
Also thanks to @AnneHellevik @doufous and @RichardSearling
#NorthernSoul #Blackpool
Also thanks to @AnneHellevik @doufous and @RichardSearling
#NorthernSoul #Blackpool
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My essay about a quest for authenticity with thanks to my editor @ccohanlon and publisher @thearsonista
Also thanks to @AnneHellevik @doufous and @RichardSearling
#NorthernSoul #Blackpool
Also thanks to @AnneHellevik @doufous and @RichardSearling
#NorthernSoul #Blackpool
Reposted by AJ Lees
"Charcot Redux" - @ajlees.bsky.social has written a magisterial article on Charcot, which gives you something of the man and his context.
Essential for anyone needing an introduction
doi.org/10.1093/brai...
Essential for anyone needing an introduction
doi.org/10.1093/brai...
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"Charcot Redux" - @ajlees.bsky.social has written a magisterial article on Charcot, which gives you something of the man and his context.
Essential for anyone needing an introduction
doi.org/10.1093/brai...
Essential for anyone needing an introduction
doi.org/10.1093/brai...
To commemorate the bicentenary of Jean-Martin Charcot's life. Without him Neurology would be a different speciality.
@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
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@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
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Charcot redux
Jean-Martin Charcot was born in Paris on 29 November 1825. To mark the bicentenary of his birth, the International Society for the History of the Neuroscie
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November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
To commemorate the bicentenary of Jean-Martin Charcot's life. Without him Neurology would be a different speciality.
@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
@uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
How much easier it was as a medical student to shut oneself in the library than to visit the wards, but as time went on, I realised I was gleaning far more by the ‘doing’ than the passive absorption of facts
My textbooks are passé but I can picture those first patients clearly
#Brainspotting
My textbooks are passé but I can picture those first patients clearly
#Brainspotting
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
How much easier it was as a medical student to shut oneself in the library than to visit the wards, but as time went on, I realised I was gleaning far more by the ‘doing’ than the passive absorption of facts
My textbooks are passé but I can picture those first patients clearly
#Brainspotting
My textbooks are passé but I can picture those first patients clearly
#Brainspotting
‘Among all the friendships I have made in life those of school and childish acquaintance are the sweetest- there is no deseption(sic) in them… there is nothing to regret in them but the loss’
@yerwha @JohnClarePoetry @JohnClareSoc
@yerwha @JohnClarePoetry @JohnClareSoc
November 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
‘Among all the friendships I have made in life those of school and childish acquaintance are the sweetest- there is no deseption(sic) in them… there is nothing to regret in them but the loss’
@yerwha @JohnClarePoetry @JohnClareSoc
@yerwha @JohnClarePoetry @JohnClareSoc
My first published paper and one im very proud of a single author case report
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My first published paper and one im very proud of a single author case report
Wake up Bluesky and let's have some serious intellectual interactions. It is still like a seance where the spirit never arrives.
A repository for ignored letters and self satisfied publication
A repository for ignored letters and self satisfied publication
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Wake up Bluesky and let's have some serious intellectual interactions. It is still like a seance where the spirit never arrives.
A repository for ignored letters and self satisfied publication
A repository for ignored letters and self satisfied publication
'"The London, in the East End wasn't a posh hospital. They were waiting for benefactors who had to be begged!...it was written on all the doors that they were waiting for them, and urgently...in pleading terms! The philanthropists took their time"
#Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
#Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
'"The London, in the East End wasn't a posh hospital. They were waiting for benefactors who had to be begged!...it was written on all the doors that they were waiting for them, and urgently...in pleading terms! The philanthropists took their time"
#Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
#Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
I am reading Céline in French, which is testing, but fun. I have come across a long description of the London Hospital, Whitechapel, extracts from which I will post in the coming days
#LouisFerdinandDestouches #Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
#RoyalLondonHospital
#LouisFerdinandDestouches #Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
#RoyalLondonHospital
October 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I am reading Céline in French, which is testing, but fun. I have come across a long description of the London Hospital, Whitechapel, extracts from which I will post in the coming days
#LouisFerdinandDestouches #Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
#RoyalLondonHospital
#LouisFerdinandDestouches #Guignolsband
@gavingiovannoni.bsky.social
#RoyalLondonHospital
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Proposing three principles to guide #Parkinson research:
1. Quantify monomeric & pathological α-synuclein
2. Prioritize human evidence over animal models
3. Use clinical trials to test hypotheses, not just molecules
@ajlees.bsky.social
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1. Quantify monomeric & pathological α-synuclein
2. Prioritize human evidence over animal models
3. Use clinical trials to test hypotheses, not just molecules
@ajlees.bsky.social
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Beyond Pathology: α‐Synuclein Homeostasis and Three Principles to Guide Research
Click on the article title to read more.
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Proposing three principles to guide #Parkinson research:
1. Quantify monomeric & pathological α-synuclein
2. Prioritize human evidence over animal models
3. Use clinical trials to test hypotheses, not just molecules
@ajlees.bsky.social
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1. Quantify monomeric & pathological α-synuclein
2. Prioritize human evidence over animal models
3. Use clinical trials to test hypotheses, not just molecules
@ajlees.bsky.social
movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The damage done to the quality of the medical interview by telehealth, electronic health records and mobile phones is immeasurable. Even if accurate information gathering survives
it ruins the communion.
it ruins the communion.
October 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The damage done to the quality of the medical interview by telehealth, electronic health records and mobile phones is immeasurable. Even if accurate information gathering survives
it ruins the communion.
it ruins the communion.
At last some good news for democracy. Brazil is more democratic and less corrupt than the United States. It also has a much more sophisticated electoral voting system.
Viva Lula
Viva Lula
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
At last some good news for democracy. Brazil is more democratic and less corrupt than the United States. It also has a much more sophisticated electoral voting system.
Viva Lula
Viva Lula