Andrew Lees
@ajlees
Professor of Neurology at UC London Author of Ray Kennedy biography, The Hurricane Port, Mentored by a Madman, Brazil that Never Was and Brainspotting.
I have seen several people for a second opinion referred with a diagnosis of corticobasal syndrome who have/had Parkinson’s disease. The patient had been handed a leaflet about CBD and not even given a trial of DOPA. In my book much more egregious than missing early DLB
Anyone who thinks only 60s and 70s black artists can create great soul music need to take their blinkers and ear muffs off. What say yous? @misterfinnigan @ColemineRecords
Charcot’s summer house in Neuilly still owned by the family #Charcotbicentenaire
The Museum of Natural History in the Jardin des Plantes situated just across the road from ‘Charcot’s joint’ and where in 1784 the physician Félix Vicq-d'Azyr physician first identified the substantia nigra. #Charcotbicentenaire @Manon_Auffret
Just topped up on Turquino Lavado dark roast but also bought some Nicaraguan and Guatemalan to try. Authentic Soho #TheAlgerian #OldCompton
Meard with the old street sign still there one of my favourite Soho horizontals @SohoGeorge @sohosocietyw1
The flower of my childhood rambling. There’s still a lot of it around but i never see an elephant hawk caterpillar
I want a few more dirty days of Limerick rain I want to feel the soft soak as I walk I want to see the ash and sycamore distend
Can anybody help me with identificatio. It is the size of a large wood pigeon @Natures_Voice @online_BOC
I have always loved the rain since summer holidays as a child in Grasmere but today it seems like a merciful blessing Wake up to climate change and do what you can to minimise your carbon footprint
The more i learn about the Luddites the more sympathy i have for them. They were not against machines per se but came together to defend their craft and their lives. I see parallels with the fight against dehumanisation, the enormous dangers inherent in machine learning
If the first algorithm doesn’t fit, try another and another but keep doctor- patient talk to a bare minimum. You can move through the hospital assembly line with hardly a word being spoken to you hour after hour The atrophy of human communication shocks and frightens me.
I am a Twitter insurgent and rebel. I dont want a blue notification, special video deals or to write 25000 word tweets. I block bots and trolls and pick who I follow with care. I try to express my thoughts and crave for sparky intereaction with pensive strangers
"Many times i wanted to shout 'Hurrah!' e.g when Lees excoriates electronic health records which so often make a fetish of information gathering a quasi religious ceremony a substitution for reflection on the meaning of the information gathered" Dalrymple amazon.co.uk/Neurological-B…
Northern Soul show this Saturday ! Dance in your dining room vibes … ❤️❤️
Bought at Vallances on the Headrow, played over and over on my Dansette. Authenticated as the first record i ever bought by my 103 year old Mum who loved it too. #MaryWells #MotownRecords
As the hose pipe bans spread through this ‘green and pleasant land’ i have read that it is not only oil and gold that lie under the Sahara but huge supplies of water. It is also the last place on earth where you can let your camels graze on common ground once the wars stop
I am pleased to announce multiple good news items about 'Surfing the Brain'. 1/5
Apart from ‘he tried to excel at his craft’ I would like my epitaph to read ‘ he liked to cause trouble by asking awkward questions and pointing out ugly little facts’