Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
@vertigologist.bsky.social
Neurologist and Neuroscientist studying movement and balance through the lens of computer vision, neuroimaging and neurostimulation. @University Hospital Ulm by way of @braincircuits.bsky.social
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Have you ever felt like you're in a surreal world where sizes and scales are all warped? No, it's not a fantasy—it's a real medical condition! Come dive with me into this mind-bending phenomenon called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS):
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Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
Is generalized epilepsy a seizure of the whole brain or a specific brain network?
In our new paper out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we investigate this by combining brain abnormalities and DBS with the human connectome.
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
A 🧵 below:
In our new paper out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we investigate this by combining brain abnormalities and DBS with the human connectome.
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
A 🧵 below:
A generalized epilepsy network derived from brain abnormalities and deep brain stimulation - Nature Communications
Ji et al. identify an idiopathic generalised epilepsy network that links heterogeneously distributed brain abnormalities to a common brain network and deep brain stimulation sites which reduce general...
nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Is generalized epilepsy a seizure of the whole brain or a specific brain network?
In our new paper out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we investigate this by combining brain abnormalities and DBS with the human connectome.
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
A 🧵 below:
In our new paper out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we investigate this by combining brain abnormalities and DBS with the human connectome.
Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
A 🧵 below:
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About 12,000 people globally have signed up and the United States and Canada are lagging behind. It is mostly video content and enjoyable. The course closes for feedback analysis and development at the end of March so I challenge you to jump on board.
mooc.utas.edu.au/course/20278...
mooc.utas.edu.au/course/20278...
March 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
About 12,000 people globally have signed up and the United States and Canada are lagging behind. It is mostly video content and enjoyable. The course closes for feedback analysis and development at the end of March so I challenge you to jump on board.
mooc.utas.edu.au/course/20278...
mooc.utas.edu.au/course/20278...
Neurologists use videos to augment the clinical examination, and new AI methods promise to transform these videos into granular biomarkers. Here, we review the fascinating past, present and future of AI-powered video analyses in clinical neurology. Enjoy!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Computer Vision in Clinical Neurology and AI Augmentation of the Neurological Examination
This narrative review outlines recent advances and challenges in technologies arising from computer vision, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), which has the potential to improve clinical neurol...
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February 21, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Neurologists use videos to augment the clinical examination, and new AI methods promise to transform these videos into granular biomarkers. Here, we review the fascinating past, present and future of AI-powered video analyses in clinical neurology. Enjoy!
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Pretty sure I don‘t have to introduce Andy, so to make it very short: interested in DBS and brain networks? Check out this super exciting new institute in Cologne!
I am excited to announce that I will be founding an institute for network stimulation at the University Hospital Cologne – already this coming May!
February 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Pretty sure I don‘t have to introduce Andy, so to make it very short: interested in DBS and brain networks? Check out this super exciting new institute in Cologne!
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What brain regions are involved in causing psychotic symptoms?
Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients!
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Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients!
1/n🧵
February 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
What brain regions are involved in causing psychotic symptoms?
Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients!
1/n🧵
Take a moment away from the existential dread about the future of science, and join me in this summary of some incredibly cool stuff that could help patients!
1/n🧵
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Do lesions that cause psychosis fall into a common brain network?
Exciting new work by @andrewpines.bsky.social, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social and colleagues – tweetorial below by the first author, paper here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Exciting new work by @andrewpines.bsky.social, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social and colleagues – tweetorial below by the first author, paper here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
February 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Do lesions that cause psychosis fall into a common brain network?
Exciting new work by @andrewpines.bsky.social, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social and colleagues – tweetorial below by the first author, paper here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Exciting new work by @andrewpines.bsky.social, @shansiddiqi.bsky.social and colleagues – tweetorial below by the first author, paper here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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New Center paper out at JAMA psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
February 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New Center paper out at JAMA psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Awesome thread by @andreashorn.org on his recent paper on STN DBS for dystonia. Details a great collaboration and his thought process as the study evolved. @braincircuits.bsky.social
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@braincircuits.bsky.social
GPi DBS for dystonia is effective.
More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative.
In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks…
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Awesome thread by @andreashorn.org on his recent paper on STN DBS for dystonia. Details a great collaboration and his thought process as the study evolved. @braincircuits.bsky.social
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Cool to see our work from @braincircuits.bsky.social featured in @sciam.bsky.social today. Great read on an interesting and bizarre neurological condition.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How Rare ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ Warps Reality
Researchers are learning what causes Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a rare neurological condition that can appear to warp bodies, time and reality itself
www.scientificamerican.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Cool to see our work from @braincircuits.bsky.social featured in @sciam.bsky.social today. Great read on an interesting and bizarre neurological condition.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Wonderful christmas read featuring our network mapping work on Alice in Wonderland syndrome- a bizarre and fascinating perceptual disorder. Kudos @sciam.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
How Rare ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ Warps Reality
Researchers are learning what causes Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a rare neurological condition that can appear to warp bodies, time and reality itself
www.scientificamerican.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Wonderful christmas read featuring our network mapping work on Alice in Wonderland syndrome- a bizarre and fascinating perceptual disorder. Kudos @sciam.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social @braincircuits.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629800v1
December 22, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629800v1
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I think a fun teaching exercise for medical students would be to each take a common clinical pearl and trace the citations until you find the primary data it's based on.
December 11, 2024 at 5:30 PM
I think a fun teaching exercise for medical students would be to each take a common clinical pearl and trace the citations until you find the primary data it's based on.
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Showed a glimpse of a new atlas that we're building in Paris yesterday. Pretty excited about it and implications for network modeling.
December 5, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Showed a glimpse of a new atlas that we're building in Paris yesterday. Pretty excited about it and implications for network modeling.
Can computer vision help us turn clinical videos into quantifiable digital biomarkers of Dystonia? Our recent paper suggests yes! Let‘s recap first.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Head movement dynamics in dystonia: a multi-centre retrospective study using visual perceptive deep learning - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Head movement dynamics in dystonia: a multi-centre retrospective study using visual perceptive deep learning
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December 5, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Can computer vision help us turn clinical videos into quantifiable digital biomarkers of Dystonia? Our recent paper suggests yes! Let‘s recap first.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury (SCI). #NatureMedicine #medsky #scisky
"Targeting specific brain regions to maximize the engagement of spinal cord-projecting neurons in the recovery of neurological functions after SCI."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Targeting specific brain regions to maximize the engagement of spinal cord-projecting neurons in the recovery of neurological functions after SCI."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury - Nature Medicine
Whole-brain anatomical and activity surveys identify the lateral hypothalamus as a key driver of recovery from spinal cord injury, leading to a deep brain stimulation therapy that augments the recover...
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December 3, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury (SCI). #NatureMedicine #medsky #scisky
"Targeting specific brain regions to maximize the engagement of spinal cord-projecting neurons in the recovery of neurological functions after SCI."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Targeting specific brain regions to maximize the engagement of spinal cord-projecting neurons in the recovery of neurological functions after SCI."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Combining electrophysiological, anatomical and functional brain maps reveals networks of beta neural activity that align with dopamine uptake.
https://buff.ly/4eQnzET
https://buff.ly/4eQnzET
Brain Activity: Unifying networks of a rhythm
Combining electrophysiological, anatomical and functional brain maps reveals networks of beta neural activity that align with dopamine uptake.
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December 1, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Combining electrophysiological, anatomical and functional brain maps reveals networks of beta neural activity that align with dopamine uptake.
https://buff.ly/4eQnzET
https://buff.ly/4eQnzET
Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
Our new paper in @science.org shows that misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, and when it does it’s shared more & read less. bsky.app/profile/will...
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Our new paper in @science.org shows that misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, and when it does it’s shared more & read less. bsky.app/profile/will...
Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
Have you ever felt like you're in a surreal world where sizes and scales are all warped? No, it's not a fantasy—it's a real medical condition! Come dive with me into this mind-bending phenomenon called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 18, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Have you ever felt like you're in a surreal world where sizes and scales are all warped? No, it's not a fantasy—it's a real medical condition! Come dive with me into this mind-bending phenomenon called Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
Tremor is common, and measuring its dynamic characteristics is important for disgnosis and prognostication. Marker-based motion capture helps, but is very resource-intensive. What if we could analyze tremor just with a smartphone video?! 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Validation and application of computer vision algorithms for video-based tremor analysis - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Validation and application of computer vision algorithms for video-based tremor analysis
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Tremor is common, and measuring its dynamic characteristics is important for disgnosis and prognostication. Marker-based motion capture helps, but is very resource-intensive. What if we could analyze tremor just with a smartphone video?! 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tremor is common, and measuring its dynamic characteristics is important for disgnosis and prognostication. Marker-based motion capture helps, but is very resource-intensive. What if we could analyze tremor just with a smartphone video?! 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Validation and application of computer vision algorithms for video-based tremor analysis - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Validation and application of computer vision algorithms for video-based tremor analysis
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Tremor is common, and measuring its dynamic characteristics is important for disgnosis and prognostication. Marker-based motion capture helps, but is very resource-intensive. What if we could analyze tremor just with a smartphone video?! 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very much looking forward to this talk tomorrow by our very own @fredschaper.bsky.social together with Stanford's Robert Fisher on Epilepsy and How to get jobs in Academia! Join us on stimulatingbrains.org! @stimulatingbrains.org
November 21, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Very much looking forward to this talk tomorrow by our very own @fredschaper.bsky.social together with Stanford's Robert Fisher on Epilepsy and How to get jobs in Academia! Join us on stimulatingbrains.org! @stimulatingbrains.org
Reposted by Maximilian Friedrich, vertigologist
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Mark Hallett’s Wartenberg lecture, dedicated to his mentor the late David Marsden
Mark Hallett’s Wartenberg lecture, dedicated to his mentor the late David Marsden
Functional Neurologic Disorder, La Lésion Dynamique | Neurology
Functional neurologic disorder is common and a significant cause of disability and
stress in neurologic patients. The nature of this disorder has been unclear. Originally
called hysteria, the disorder...
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November 14, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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Mark Hallett’s Wartenberg lecture, dedicated to his mentor the late David Marsden
Mark Hallett’s Wartenberg lecture, dedicated to his mentor the late David Marsden