Zach London
@zachlondon.bsky.social
University of Michigan neurology program director and localization nerd, songwriter, board game influencer, fort builder. #neurosky
It’s the first in a new series of curriculum resources in Neurology: Education. Check it out, share with students, and stay tuned for more.
Meanwhile, are you developing a curriculum for some aspect of neurology? Get off your butt (or sit back down if you don't have a standing desk) and submit it!
Meanwhile, are you developing a curriculum for some aspect of neurology? Get off your butt (or sit back down if you don't have a standing desk) and submit it!
August 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It’s the first in a new series of curriculum resources in Neurology: Education. Check it out, share with students, and stay tuned for more.
Meanwhile, are you developing a curriculum for some aspect of neurology? Get off your butt (or sit back down if you don't have a standing desk) and submit it!
Meanwhile, are you developing a curriculum for some aspect of neurology? Get off your butt (or sit back down if you don't have a standing desk) and submit it!
Premarin is a medication containing conjugated equine estrogens, derived from the urine of pregnant mares. The name "Premarin" is a shortened form of "PREgnant MARe urINe".
Should one assume, then, that pregabalin is derived from a pregnant goblin?
Should one assume, then, that pregabalin is derived from a pregnant goblin?
August 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Premarin is a medication containing conjugated equine estrogens, derived from the urine of pregnant mares. The name "Premarin" is a shortened form of "PREgnant MARe urINe".
Should one assume, then, that pregabalin is derived from a pregnant goblin?
Should one assume, then, that pregabalin is derived from a pregnant goblin?
“The Neuron” by sculptor Roxy Paine at the Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. I wonder who the model was…
July 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“The Neuron” by sculptor Roxy Paine at the Frederick Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. I wonder who the model was…
Excited to announce that our visual fields game, "Field Cut," is a finalist for an educational game award called the Gee!
Being a finalist also makes it eligible for their People's Choice Award. Please vote for Field Cut here! www.geeawards.com
More on Field Cut:
www.neurdgames.com/field-cut
Being a finalist also makes it eligible for their People's Choice Award. Please vote for Field Cut here! www.geeawards.com
More on Field Cut:
www.neurdgames.com/field-cut
July 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Excited to announce that our visual fields game, "Field Cut," is a finalist for an educational game award called the Gee!
Being a finalist also makes it eligible for their People's Choice Award. Please vote for Field Cut here! www.geeawards.com
More on Field Cut:
www.neurdgames.com/field-cut
Being a finalist also makes it eligible for their People's Choice Award. Please vote for Field Cut here! www.geeawards.com
More on Field Cut:
www.neurdgames.com/field-cut
Do you call the carpool lane "HOV" or is that just the brand name for fremanezumab?
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Do you call the carpool lane "HOV" or is that just the brand name for fremanezumab?
In our editorial for Neurology: Education, Megan Jiao and I make a case that if we want serious games in #Meded to be taken seriously, we need to treat them like any other intervention: with transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. 1/2
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
June 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In our editorial for Neurology: Education, Megan Jiao and I make a case that if we want serious games in #Meded to be taken seriously, we need to treat them like any other intervention: with transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. 1/2
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
End your #AANAM journey on a high note with quality edutainment you can take home with you.
The Neurology Playground: fast, fun, and free near games for you and your learners. We're going to demo and play ~10 games at breakneck speed at 12:50 in the Exhibit Hall BCD. Join us!
The Neurology Playground: fast, fun, and free near games for you and your learners. We're going to demo and play ~10 games at breakneck speed at 12:50 in the Exhibit Hall BCD. Join us!
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
End your #AANAM journey on a high note with quality edutainment you can take home with you.
The Neurology Playground: fast, fun, and free near games for you and your learners. We're going to demo and play ~10 games at breakneck speed at 12:50 in the Exhibit Hall BCD. Join us!
The Neurology Playground: fast, fun, and free near games for you and your learners. We're going to demo and play ~10 games at breakneck speed at 12:50 in the Exhibit Hall BCD. Join us!
Not to toot my own electrode, but our EEG/EMG course today will be epic.
I overheard some very trustworthy people saying to each other that it will go down as the best #AANAM session of 2025. And the previous and subsequent hundred years.
Yes, the title sounds dry, but trust me.
I overheard some very trustworthy people saying to each other that it will go down as the best #AANAM session of 2025. And the previous and subsequent hundred years.
Yes, the title sounds dry, but trust me.
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Not to toot my own electrode, but our EEG/EMG course today will be epic.
I overheard some very trustworthy people saying to each other that it will go down as the best #AANAM session of 2025. And the previous and subsequent hundred years.
Yes, the title sounds dry, but trust me.
I overheard some very trustworthy people saying to each other that it will go down as the best #AANAM session of 2025. And the previous and subsequent hundred years.
Yes, the title sounds dry, but trust me.
Who is pumped for Charcot’d Breakers?
Look for this logo around the #AANAM convention center. Solve all 10 puzzles in any order to get clues that will help crack the final code and join the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Benoit Blanc, Miss Marple, and of course, Jean-Martin Charcot!
Look for this logo around the #AANAM convention center. Solve all 10 puzzles in any order to get clues that will help crack the final code and join the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Benoit Blanc, Miss Marple, and of course, Jean-Martin Charcot!
April 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Who is pumped for Charcot’d Breakers?
Look for this logo around the #AANAM convention center. Solve all 10 puzzles in any order to get clues that will help crack the final code and join the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Benoit Blanc, Miss Marple, and of course, Jean-Martin Charcot!
Look for this logo around the #AANAM convention center. Solve all 10 puzzles in any order to get clues that will help crack the final code and join the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Benoit Blanc, Miss Marple, and of course, Jean-Martin Charcot!
The judge picks the winner, who gets to keep the prompt card for scoring. Now the next person becomes judge and play continues.
4/🧲
4/🧲
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The judge picks the winner, who gets to keep the prompt card for scoring. Now the next person becomes judge and play continues.
4/🧲
4/🧲
Game play is simple. One player (the judge) draws a card and reads one of two prompts. Everyone else grabs words from a big pile in the center of the table and races to come up with the best answer.
3/🧲
3/🧲
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Game play is simple. One player (the judge) draws a card and reads one of two prompts. Everyone else grabs words from a big pile in the center of the table and races to come up with the best answer.
3/🧲
3/🧲
At it's core, this game comes with 475 magnetic words.
These are words you love. Words you've always wanted to put on your refrigerator.
Words like Babinski, FLAIR, recrudescence, neglect, reflex, droop, dopamine, brainstem, functional, bulbar, IVIG, MCA, and more.
2/🧲
These are words you love. Words you've always wanted to put on your refrigerator.
Words like Babinski, FLAIR, recrudescence, neglect, reflex, droop, dopamine, brainstem, functional, bulbar, IVIG, MCA, and more.
2/🧲
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
At it's core, this game comes with 475 magnetic words.
These are words you love. Words you've always wanted to put on your refrigerator.
Words like Babinski, FLAIR, recrudescence, neglect, reflex, droop, dopamine, brainstem, functional, bulbar, IVIG, MCA, and more.
2/🧲
These are words you love. Words you've always wanted to put on your refrigerator.
Words like Babinski, FLAIR, recrudescence, neglect, reflex, droop, dopamine, brainstem, functional, bulbar, IVIG, MCA, and more.
2/🧲
Happy days are here! The universe has gifted us with a new neuro game: Magnetic Resonance, by @oligoclonalband.medsky.social and Me.
If you like party games like Cards Against Humanity or Apples to Apples, but hate that they aren't even a little about neurology, check this out. 1/🧲
If you like party games like Cards Against Humanity or Apples to Apples, but hate that they aren't even a little about neurology, check this out. 1/🧲
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Happy days are here! The universe has gifted us with a new neuro game: Magnetic Resonance, by @oligoclonalband.medsky.social and Me.
If you like party games like Cards Against Humanity or Apples to Apples, but hate that they aren't even a little about neurology, check this out. 1/🧲
If you like party games like Cards Against Humanity or Apples to Apples, but hate that they aren't even a little about neurology, check this out. 1/🧲
Get pumped for Dendritic Dare, neurology's fiercest game show, hosted by @oligoclonalband.medsky.social and li'l me. #AANAM 4/7 4:30pm.
We'll have ukuleles, pies in faces, feats of skill, & neuro puns galore! Sign up to play tinyurl.com/yp38dera or just shower the contestants with bouquets!
We'll have ukuleles, pies in faces, feats of skill, & neuro puns galore! Sign up to play tinyurl.com/yp38dera or just shower the contestants with bouquets!
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Get pumped for Dendritic Dare, neurology's fiercest game show, hosted by @oligoclonalband.medsky.social and li'l me. #AANAM 4/7 4:30pm.
We'll have ukuleles, pies in faces, feats of skill, & neuro puns galore! Sign up to play tinyurl.com/yp38dera or just shower the contestants with bouquets!
We'll have ukuleles, pies in faces, feats of skill, & neuro puns galore! Sign up to play tinyurl.com/yp38dera or just shower the contestants with bouquets!
For those of you marching into neurology this week:
Congratulations and welcome to the family!
(Shhh. Don’t let the rest of them know we have a secret handshake!)
Congratulations and welcome to the family!
(Shhh. Don’t let the rest of them know we have a secret handshake!)
March 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
For those of you marching into neurology this week:
Congratulations and welcome to the family!
(Shhh. Don’t let the rest of them know we have a secret handshake!)
Congratulations and welcome to the family!
(Shhh. Don’t let the rest of them know we have a secret handshake!)
Happy Pi day! I saw this in a record store and realized that it answers the age old question… Where would we be without Pi? (Or in this case, py.)
March 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy Pi day! I saw this in a record store and realized that it answers the age old question… Where would we be without Pi? (Or in this case, py.)
This is embarrassing. We were hosting applicants here for a second look, and we were mingling in a shared conference room.
It looks like another department was using this room to make their rank list.
Everyone laughed, but I doubt this made our visitors feel more at ease!
It looks like another department was using this room to make their rank list.
Everyone laughed, but I doubt this made our visitors feel more at ease!
February 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is embarrassing. We were hosting applicants here for a second look, and we were mingling in a shared conference room.
It looks like another department was using this room to make their rank list.
Everyone laughed, but I doubt this made our visitors feel more at ease!
It looks like another department was using this room to make their rank list.
Everyone laughed, but I doubt this made our visitors feel more at ease!
Look at the mortality trends reported in various AIDP trials 1988-2013. Did we get better at treating AIDP or are we just getting better at diagnosing mild cases? Or is this just comparing apples and oranges?
(Not shown: Intubation rates haven't really changed during the time.)
(Not shown: Intubation rates haven't really changed during the time.)
February 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Look at the mortality trends reported in various AIDP trials 1988-2013. Did we get better at treating AIDP or are we just getting better at diagnosing mild cases? Or is this just comparing apples and oranges?
(Not shown: Intubation rates haven't really changed during the time.)
(Not shown: Intubation rates haven't really changed during the time.)
And when you open the box, dangerous blister packs fly out! #spellcheck
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
And when you open the box, dangerous blister packs fly out! #spellcheck
Thanks, as always, #spellcheck. Glad to know the treatment plan is seaworthy.
January 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thanks, as always, #spellcheck. Glad to know the treatment plan is seaworthy.
A few other signs that grab my attention.
3/3
3/3
December 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
A few other signs that grab my attention.
3/3
3/3
Neurologist’s travel guide to Brussels!
Here’s a brewery named after our inpatient service.
1/3
Here’s a brewery named after our inpatient service.
1/3
December 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Neurologist’s travel guide to Brussels!
Here’s a brewery named after our inpatient service.
1/3
Here’s a brewery named after our inpatient service.
1/3
In October, Labcorp/Invitae ended their sponsored program that provided free genetic testing for hereditary neuropathies.
Now they are closing their free periodic paralysis testing program.
Has anyone figured out workarounds for either of these?
Now they are closing their free periodic paralysis testing program.
Has anyone figured out workarounds for either of these?
December 3, 2024 at 8:37 PM
In October, Labcorp/Invitae ended their sponsored program that provided free genetic testing for hereditary neuropathies.
Now they are closing their free periodic paralysis testing program.
Has anyone figured out workarounds for either of these?
Now they are closing their free periodic paralysis testing program.
Has anyone figured out workarounds for either of these?