S Blitshteyn MD, FAAN, FANA, Dysautonomia Clinic
@dysclinic
Neurologist, Director of #Dysautonomia Clinic, Clinical Associate Professor @Jacobs_Med_UB. Trained @MayoClinic #LongCovid #POTS #EDS, tweets🚫med advice
I am incredibly honored to have been invited to talk about #LongCovid and #Dysautonomia by the brilliant @EricTopol on his Ground Truths podcast. It's amazing to achieve this despite all of the obstacles in my life. 🙏🧠👩🔬 @Jacobs_Med_UB @AANmember @DrABrashear #BrainHealth
Pearls on #dysautonomia, #LongCovid, #POTS from a leading expert on the front lines, Dr. Svetlana Blitshteyn @dysclinic In the new Ground Truths (link in profile)
X reminded me that it's my Twitter/X anniversary. I remember my 20 year-old receptionist creating this account and showing me how to use it. 🤣 I've had mostly a positive experience here, meeting amazing people, including groundbreaking scientists, clinicians, researchers and…
Research related to #concussion is highly relevant to research on #LongCOVID, #Dysautonomia and #MECFS. Why? 🧠 Because non-mechanical brain injury from infection - one of the major triggers of dysautonomia and MECFS - has many similar symptoms and ramifications that a…
Do rugby players have to worry about the long-term effects of multiple concussions? Parker and colleagues studied 200 former elite rugby players in an effort to shed light on the complex relationship between concussions, brain health and dementia risk. Key Points: - The authors…
RIP Ozzy Osbourne (1948 – 2025). As a global rock icon, Ozzy inspired millions with his music, but even more profoundly, he moved the Parkinson’s community by bravely sharing his diagnosis and becoming a pioneer in the conversation around advanced therapies, including stem cell…
Our post-proof full-length case series of patients with mast cell activation syndrome ( #MCAS) and comorbidities whose MCAS-associated symptoms improved significantly on #GLP1 agonists is now available. To summarize: ✔️ 47 patients (mean age 39, range 15–71, 89% female) included…
The Covid pandemic accelerated brain aging as seen in @uk_biobank paired MRI, 2 cohorts nature.com/articles/s4146…
Highly provocative research as in "Do we have agency and free will over our attitudes, or are we slaves to our brain wiring?" And "Can we voluntarily change our attitude and thinking pattern to enact a change in fMRI to imitate those of optimists?" Neuroimaging is the future. 🧠
Optimistic people have functional MRI commonality of neural processing for imagining the future (whereas pessimists have a diverse pattern) pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
Excellent case for #Neurotwitter! The key point is "don't jump to functional." I emphasize this point in my talks on #Dysautonomia. Give-way weakness and unsteady gait in pts with #POTS, #syncope and #OI should not be mistaken for #FND. frontiersin.org/journals/neuro…
Would you call a crab walk gait a functional neurological disorder? Not so fast. If you encounter someone walk with tiny, sideways shuffling steps, kinda like a crab, it could be a clue. In a striking case just published by Fraiman and colleagues, a crab walk-like helped to…
This is such an incredible effort! We need the same for the #IACI @VirusesImmunity @PutrinoLab @MBVanElzakker @OxMEDiscovery @resiapretorius @BrodinPetter @HannaMOllila @NeurologistMom @ahandvanish @mhornig @LaelYonker @DaniBeckman @michelle_monje @DALauffenburger @dysclinic
While UK Biobank enabled access to population-based proteomics at scale, most omics studies in disease-focused cohorts still suffer from small sample sizes. The Global Neurodegeneration Proteomics Consortium brought together 35,000 serum, plasma, and CSF samples from…
🚨 Excited to share our new study on the benefits of #GLP1RA in #MCAS. In our case series of 47 patients with MCAS, 89% experienced significant benefit in MCAS-associated symptoms. RCTs are needed to establish the efficacy & safety of GLP1RAs in MCAS. 💉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
I am so proud of my friend Dr. @drrachelrubin for being a part of this very important panel on menopause and hormones! Thank you to all of the panelists and @US_FDA for highlighting this topic.
LIVE: FDA Expert Panel on Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy for Women x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Thank you, @NeuroSjogrens! I am all for making my paper on #Dysautonomia a #CME and #MedEd for all #MedTwitter and #NeuroTwitter. 🧠🫀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
👏👏👏 An @dysclinic paper I wish every medical student had to read, were taught and were tested on. And every MD had to do CME with in order to maintain licensure. "Dysautonomia: a common comorbidity of systemic disease" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…
⚡️Back in the days of my medical training (many years ago 🤪), I remember one attending neurologist making a comment that "MS patients are weird." Well, no big surprise that when one has a brain disease, one may develop neuropsychiatric manifestations of that disease.…
Here is my takeaway from interacting with my friends and colleagues - some of the best autonomic specialists in the world - and discussing #POTS/#Dysautonomia at #DysConf2025 this past weekend: 🧠 You've got to be open-minded regarding the complexities of these disorders.…
I don't think we can separate the brain from the mind: it's one and the same. Psychosis=brain disease. 🧠
Historical anomaly: Term "psychosis" derives from Greek word "soul"- but is used today to describe conditions caused mostly by brain dysfunction. Term "neurosis", coined by Cullen 300 yrs ago, derives from Greek word "neuron", meaning nerve- but is more a dysruption of the soul.
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GLP-1 drugs may provide benefit for idiopathic intracranial hypertension jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
I am always humbled when people with #Dysautonomia travel for #DysConf2025 from all over the US & other countries and come to a large auditorium to ask us questions at the Q&A session. This is an experience that grounds you in humility, humanity and our collective suffering. 💙
