Ahmed Negida, MD PhD 🇪🇬🇺🇲
@NegidaMD
Postdoctoral Scholar PGY-6 @VCUHealth | Formerly @HarvardMed | Global Lead @Global_Nsurg | #Neurology #Neurosurgery | Instructor @NegidaAcademy
Data-driven subtyping, particularly the identification of the Diffuse Malignant subtype, offers a promising strategy to optimize disease-modification trials in #Parkinson’s disease by capturing patients who meet progression milestones earlier.
Read this #preprint on @researchsquare: Comparative Analysis of Progression Milestones Across Parkinson’s Disease Clinical, Pathological, and Data-driven Subtypes: A 10-year follow-up researchsquare.com/article/rs-657…
Good news: Audiobooks do count as reading a book. A neuroscientist from UC Berkeley scanned the brains of participants and found that listening to a book (top) and reading a book (bottom) stimulated the same cognitive and emotional areas, regardless of their medium.
NIH Funding Announcements to Align with NIH Initiative to Prioritize Human-based Research .. @NIH will no longer seek proposals exclusively for animal models. grants.nih.gov/news-events/ni…
Today, we started the 2025 mentorship program offered (for FREE) to 8751 medical students, trainees, and physicians in the MENA region. The first workshop was about Crafting a Powerful Professional CV for Medical Careers with a focus on rotations, research fellowships, and…
Selection and Interpretation of Biomarker Tests for Alzheimer Disease practicalneurology.com/diseases-diagn… via @ReachMD @PracticalNeuro #ENDALZ @WashUNeurology
I like this. But will they cap the APCs for publishing NIH-funded research or cap the “publication fees” portion in the requested budgets of NIH grant applications? There is a big difference.
Today, @NIH announced a new policy to cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their work publicly accessible. This reflects our broader effort to restore public trust in public health by creating an open, honest, and transparent research atmosphere.…
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Elon: “I give you the America Party.” $TSLA stock:
The rollercoaster has started. I have a toxic relationship with $TSLA and I can’t give up.
New findings "highlight the posterior putamen as a #Parkinsons pathology hotspot & demonstrate the potential of quantitative MRI gradient analysis for detecting clinically relevant brain changes" nature.com/articles/s4153…
Virginia’s Congresswoman @RepMcClellan writes back in support of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency- related legislations.
How fast is your brain aging? A new clock from a single MRI, validated in multiple datasets, linked with risk of dementia, cognition, chronic diseases and mortality nature.com/articles/d4158… nature.com/articles/s4358…
A guide to what the Trump administration is targeting, which research is being cut — and how much the world of science is about to change. share.google/x3VBHKOnOPpolk…
Not just shingles vaccine, but also RSV vaccine reduces the risk of dementia, which highlights the benefit of revving up the immune system in older individuals nature.com/articles/s4154…
Jiang et al. find that proteasome dysfunction occurs early in Alzheimer’s disease and worsens with disease progression, impairing the ability of neurons to clear harmful proteins. tinyurl.com/4zbeprjf
Read this #preprint on @researchsquare: Comparative Analysis of Progression Milestones Across Parkinson’s Disease Clinical, Pathological, and Data-driven Subtypes: A 10-year follow-up researchsquare.com/article/rs-657…
BREAKING: THERE ARE AT LEAST 35 TESLA ROBOTAXIS ON ROADS IN AUSTIN 10-20 were expected the first day! $TSLA
Conflict of interest
BREAKING: Here are all the current US politicians who are benefitting with aerospace and defense stocks if the US goes to war with Iran: Bill Hagerty Blake Moore Bruce Westerman Carol Devine Miller Carol Miller Dan Newhouse Diana Harshbarger Dwight Evans Earl Blumenauer Gil…