Souzana Choussein, M.D.

I know it takes complicated but intuitive je ne sais quoi /“bee’s knees” figures/comments for a tweet to gain traction.. But that’s all I have.. 🙃😜 #Boston #firsttweet

In a strong field of candidates, this is the biggest scandal in all of American education.

It’s almost the third Monday in April.. #BostonMarathon #BostonStrong 💙💛

The Boston Marathon’s unicorn symbolizes something to chase but never catch. It was inspired by the coat of arms of one of the Boston Athletic Association’s founding families. 💛

GO GET 'EM @CELTICS ☘️😤

You are getting exactly what you voted for Boston

Back to books - Sweden's schools give up digital learning bbc.in/41CvrFS

“Every inch that I can measure When I put it all together Hope it's adding up to something.. But what do I know?” 💎 Lingering bangers @Bobmosesmusic #Afterglow @roadrunnerbos

A CINEMATIC ENDING IN CHARLOTTE!

U.S. Fertility Rate has fallen to the lowest level in history and is significantly below replacement level 🚨🤯👀

HAPPENING TODAY: The ban would be "among the most restrictive" in the country and also prohibit student cellphone use in schools.

Put it on a bumper sticker: "Two things are important now, deep learning and fertility." x.com/JesusFerna7026…

BREAKING Greece to ban social media for under 15-year-olds, says prime minister

Η απονομή του 🥇 και ο Εθνικός Υμνος 🇬🇷 για τον μοναδικό Λευτέρη Πετρούνια και την πρώτη θέση στη σειρά αγώνων του Παγκοσμίου Κυπέλλου γυμναστικής, στον αγώνα του Καϊρου!

The “nerdy tourist” in me got me this Jolly Roger water bottle and a burst of admiration in my kids’ eyes for knowing the 3 wars the American Victory Ship served in. Wouldn’t trade either for the world 🏴‍☠️ FTR, it’s WWII, the Korean & the Vietnam War. And yes, #TampaBay it is 😉

I'm fascinated with Massachusetts' economy bc its so weird. And there's been some interesting chatter here about the problems (housing, biotech leaving, VC trouble). Was very interested to read a long, deeply reported story about the big picture bostonmagazine.com/news/2026/03/2…

CEO of America’s largest public hospital system says he’s ready to replace radiologists with AI Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, recently spoke during a panel discussion held by Crain’s New York Business. The trained internal medicine specialist noted how AI is increasingly being used to interpret mammograms and X-rays.  “We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge,” Katz said at the forum, held on March 25.

💬 Viewpoint: Breast density increases cancer risk and reduces #Mammography sensitivity, but access to supplemental screening like #MRI and ultrasonography remains limited, creating disparities in early #BreastCancer detection. ja.ma/4tqn3VX

Things to know if you are thinking of becoming pregnant later in life | AP News apnews.com/article/pregna…

With 10 seconds left, Duke was up 2 with the ball. All they had to do was hold the ball. They passed. And one was deflected. A clutch three and UCONN wins. But...why throw the pass? Under pressure, our brain betrays us. Part of it goes offline. It's one of the cruel things in all of sport: First, some context on how insane this was. Duke led by 19. Number one seeds were 134-0 all time when leading by 15+ at halftime in the NCAA tournament. 134-0. Braylon Mullins, the freshman who hit the 35-footer with 0.4 seconds left, was 0-for-4 from three before that shot. Nothing about what happened should have happened. We tell athletes to "rise to the occasion." That's a lie. Under extreme pressure, you don't rise to anything. You fall to your defaults. The latest neuroscience explains why: When pressure spikes, your prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for planning, decision-making, and overriding impulse, starts to go offline. Stress hormones like norepinephrine and dopamine flood the system. At moderate levels, they help you focus and lock-in. But past a threshold, the PFC starts to shut down. Attention flips from thoughtful "top-down" control to "bottom-up" control, where whatever stimulus is in front of you captures your attention. It's less thinking and planning and more impulsive reacting. Hartogsveld and colleagues tested this in 2020. They stressed participants out and measured whether they could override trained habits when the situation changed. Stressed participants committed significantly more "slips of action," performing the trained habit even when it was no longer the correct response. Stress made them default to what they'd practiced most. It's the cruel paradox of choking. Your most practiced behaviors take over precisely when the situation demands something different. Duke needed to do nothing. Literally hold the ball. But everything a basketball player has ever practiced is telling them to make a play. In this situation, get past midcourt to avoid the backcourt violation. When our PFC is off-line, we lose that impulse control to tell us, wait a minute, context demands something different! Research shows that we often try to compensate for the pressure by trying harder. We start forcing things or trying to micromanage the situation to deal with losing a bit of control. Inevitably, this backfires. So you get this terrible contradiction. The PFC goes offline and you lose top-down control. But whatever executive resources remain get directed at the wrong thing, overmonitoring your own movements. You start consciously controlling things that should be running on autopilot, and the whole system jams. Don't believe me, try to do simple math when you are moderately stressed or fatigued, such as mile 15 of a marathon or the 6th 400m repeat of the workout? Any runner will tell you, it's hard to do 26 minus 15... Now, add the pressure of millions watching, and see how your brain works. There's no perfect solution. You've got to feel for the Duke kids. This close and have it ripped away. But that's why when preparing for a high pressure situation there are a few solutions. 1. Inoculate Yourself Train in environments that simulate pressure as best you can. Up the ante, use exercise as a stressor to challenge decision making. Visualize it. Michael Phelps visualized a "problem tape" of what to do if it went wrong. Create simple If...Then scenarios. A mental playbook of sorts, like a QB that knows to dump it to the RB if pressure comes. 2. Copy Pilots. They have checklists and slogans for emergencies (Aviate-Navigate-Communicate). It simplifies the priorities directing them what to focus on and what actions to take when their brain isn't working. Tell your brain where to focus and what action to take. Coaches need to make it simple and explicit. When the pressure is on, treat your athletes like a toddler. Because that's how their brain is kind of working...

. @DukeMBB and @UConnMBB delivered a classic! Should have never come down to the wire.. but it did. No model, algorithm or spreadsheet prepares you for March. And, I guess, that’s the beauty -and the madness- of it 🏀