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Josefine Waldthaler
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neurologist | neuroscientist | mum of 2
fascinated by the human brain |
interested in movement disorders, cognition, MEG, neurodiversity and coffee.
team leader @Karolinska
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We neurologists fall in love with our hypotheses: they never die. The latest: Depending on where Lewy pathology is first found, one of 2 #Parkinsons types exists. @ajlees and I explain the newest inconsistency in this “brain-first/body-first” hypothesis.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Now published OA in Movement Disorders: doi.org/10.1002/mds....

We find that MEG can be used to quantify the "off-target" effects of dopamine therapies in people living with #Parkinson's disease

#neuroskyence

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Cortical Effects of Dopamine Replacement Account for Clinical Response Variability in Parkinson's Disease
Background Individual variability in clinical response to dopamine replacement therapy (DRT) is a key barrier to efficacious treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). A better understand...
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April 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Dear colleagues of the MEG community

I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum. Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline is March 20th 2025.

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Postdoc in cognitive neuroscience - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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February 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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New pre-print! 🎉

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We use a MEG with a PLS-neuromaps "search" of off-target cortical effects of dopamine therapies in patients with #Parkinson's disease

A strong beta-rhythmic activation of dopamine-rich cortices in response to medication ▶️ worse clinical response
A scientific figure with two panels. On the left, a horizontal bar chart with patients 1-17 numbered on the y-axis, and the strength of dopamine alignment (i.e., pls weights) on the x-axis, which indicates the amount of cortical dopamine-system response to dopamine replacement therapies. The bars are sorted and colored with the strongest alignment on top and lowest alignment on bottom. Arrows extend from the top and bottom bars to brain maps showing strong and weak beta-frequency rhythmic dopamine responses, respectively, in inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices. On the right, a scatterplot shows a positive linear relationship between dopamine alignment (on the x-axis) and change in motor symptom response (on the y-axis, with higher/less-negative values indicating less symptom improvement). Statistics overlaid on the scatterplot indicate a correlation coefficient (r) of .64 and a p-value of .007.
November 23, 2024 at 9:25 PM