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Mitchell R. Spezzaferri, PhD
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Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellow | VA Long Beach
Lecturer in Psych Science | UC Irvine
Prev. Resident | Denver Health Medical Center
Researching epilepsy and neurodegenerative diseases 🧠 👨‍🏫
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500. That’s the maximum number of tabs you can have open on iOS safari.

I found out the old fashioned way.
January 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Confidence intervals are confusing intervals. The reason is because they tell us something about what happens across many confidence intervals, not in any single confidence interval. In the long run, 95% of 95% CI contain a population parameter. 1/n
December 5, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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Really cool point countetpoint discussion about #alzheimers diagnosis between Cliff Jack and Kevin Duff: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The pod also references our recent article on the topic: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QMMRM...
156| Updated Diagnosis and Staging Criteria for Alzheimer’s Disease – A Conversation with Dr. Cliff Jack and Dr. Kevin Duff
Podcast Episode · Navigating Neuropsychology · 12/01/2024 · 1h 45m
podcasts.apple.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?

Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!

Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
December 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Neuropsychological measures tend to predict real world outcomes pretty well, providing clinical value even as we make big strides in biomarker accuracy and availability
1- Can we predict when it may no longer be safe for an older adult to stop driving?

Poor performance on a cognitive battery & progression to MCI/dementia are more predictive of driving cessation than are Alzheimer's biomarkers.

Summary: www.nia.nih.gov/news/cogniti...

#medsky #geronsky
November 28, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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1- Can we predict when it may no longer be safe for an older adult to stop driving?

Poor performance on a cognitive battery & progression to MCI/dementia are more predictive of driving cessation than are Alzheimer's biomarkers.

Summary: www.nia.nih.gov/news/cogniti...

#medsky #geronsky
November 26, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Reposted by Mitchell R. Spezzaferri, PhD
Applying for a Clinical Neuropsychology Fellowship? Consider our APA-accredited 2-year Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Crescenz (Philadelphia) VAMC. Applications are due Dec. 15.
Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Residency | VA Philadelphia health care | Veterans Affairs
fellowship, residency, internship
www.va.gov
November 19, 2024 at 9:40 PM