Andrew Thompson
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Andrew Thompson
@agbthompson
Neurologist, neurodegeneration researcher, irregular/erstwhile musician with @KatFlint, @Bearparkband & @fuzzystar, father of small-medium humans.
London, mostly. Katılım Kasım 2011
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💥💥💥OUT NOW! My album Memory Islands is released today on @bigoandtwigetti. 💥💥 Available on all streaming platforms and on CD from @Bandcamp and @PrestoMusicCom
elliewilson.bandcamp.com/album/memory-i…
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My mate @agbthompson is a cognitive neurologist and wrote this great intro for my album booklet note about memory and the brain. 🧠
elliewilsonmusic.co.uk/news-1/2023/10…
(Pic: Angela Palmer sculpture)
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Travelling to Scotland in style (please don’t judge my choice of drink!)
Also: any ideas for things to see/ do for a short stop in Inverness…? Any good cafes…? 🏴
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Want to hear about my brother’s new book for older kids (and discerning adults) - about a hidden world of wolves enslaved by foxes, and the power of language to control and to set free... Come to the online launch today at 6pm!
Little Island Books@LittleIslandBks
Together with @NOALIBISBOOKS we are so excited to invite you to the launch of Sam Thompson's #Wolfstongue next week. You can register here: bit.ly/32Q6loH If you have a question for Sam please send us a DM and we'll send it on.
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New book by my bro @pswthompson! @IrishTimes reckons it’s good! “Wolfstongue is a hugely original tale with classic influences and infrastructure, and an assured children’s debut from Thompson, whose adult novels display the same thoughtful compassion.”
irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
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What should a neurologist cover in a teaching session for NHS GPs? What can be genuinely useful, and avoid being patronising and/or out of touch? Any suggestions, or good or bad experiences? #MedTwitter #GPTwitter #NeuroTwitter
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Sam Thompson goes to @LittleIslandBks for children's debutt Wolfstongue, the middle-grade title is a "philosophical fable about the power of language and the relationship between humans and the natural world": bit.ly/31oMvB0
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Very happy to see our paper out @NatureComms . Many thanks to all authors @smead2 @jmschott @scienceandbears @agbthompson and first author Penny Norsworthy. Very grateful to patients and their families who have made this study possible. @ucl @The_MRC @PrionGraphics
Nature Communications@NatureComms
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a progressive dementia. Here, the authors identified three miRNAs in whole-blood samples, discriminating between sCJD and Alzheimer’s disease. #neuroscience @scienceandbears; @jmschott; @smead2; @EmmanuelleVire nature.com/articles/s4146…
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Lots more detail and discussion in the pre-print! Thoughts/comments/questions welcome!
Thanks to co-authors including @smead2 @ajh1269 @dranihat @jmschott @jonrohrer and *especially* to all the participants, relatives and carers that gave their time, effort and samples. [8/8]
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In asymptomatic PRNP mutation carriers, we found that plasma NfL was higher on average, and rising, in samples taken in the 2 years before observed (not predicted) symptom onset than in earlier samples. [7/8]
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Pre-print @medrxivpreprint of our big study measuring blood biomarkers of neurodegeneration (total tau and NfL) in 377 people with prion disease in a 12-year prospective clinical cohort. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Here’s a little summary thread (my first!) ... [1/8]
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