Emmanuelle Wilhelm

Pinch me please! 👉🏼 1st project in Parkinson’s disease for both me & @DuqueLab just got published in @MDJ_Journal! 🤩 Grateful to my co-authors & all participants 🫶🏼 Honestly, what a crazy PhD journey 🎢🤯🙊 doi.org/10.1002/mds.29… #parkinson #TMS #motorcontrol #bradykinesia

Airborne particulate matter pollution associated w/ dementia, new @JAMAInternalMed study and guess what the author suggest there may be interventions to reduce pollutants may decrease your lifetime risk. However, folks we need to stop putzing around and start now to save ours and the next generation! @endingpdbook cutt.ly/HwgYVgtN

Everyone is excited about the potential for psychedelic treatment of Parkinson's and neurodegenerative diseases. Read this new piece @JAMAPsych which outlines the challenges including the need for the treatment to be available to 'all.' 'Classic psychedelics like psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) (ayahuasca’s psychoactive ingredient) interact with the serotonin signaling system principally as agonists to the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor Current psychedelics research carries the baggage of past ethical transgressions, including egregious experimentation with LSD on unwitting study “participants” including individuals with disabilities and those who were incarcerated in the 1950s. It places a unique burden on researchers to be transparent in their aims and methods and to establish a firm grounding of trust with study participants. Because of that dark history, people from racial and ethnic minoritized groups may be particularly hesitant to participate in research. Yet inclusion of diverse study populations is necessary to ensure that findings are applicable across individuals with varying demographic characteristics. Also, since patients are particularly vulnerable during a psychedelic experience due to altered perceptions, an increased posture of openness, and potential for the clinician to be imbued by the patient with medical and spiritual authority, the clinical staff’s role needs to be structured in ways that prevent possible abuses.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Also, very grateful for the beautiful collaboration with @UZLeuven thanks to @DrABoogers and Bart Nuttin! 🙏🤗

Feel free to check out our latest preprint on the study of corticospinal dynamics underlying action preparation in PD patients treated with bilateral STN-DBS! 🤓 As always, very interested in possible comments and questions! 🧐🤗 @DuqueLab @GDerosiere @insilicobiology 🙏🙏

@Andrew_Akbashev @MauraMonesca

This week, scientists have been STUNNED by the possible discovery of room-temperature superconductivity. IF it is true, humanity might have passed a HUGE milestone. The impact will be WAY bigger than the combined impact by ChatGPT, artificial AI and anything else you’ve heard of. In #science, this discovery is much bigger than any graphene, Li-ion batteries, observation of black holes, and even Higgs boson. ▫️ In a long run, the consequences can be bigger than the outcome of industrial revolution and discovery of nuclear reactions and energy. It will deeply transform the humanity. ▫️ I’m putting a list of things that come to my mind. However, there are many more points in reality. Some changes will be so "core" that we can't even foresee them today. 1⃣ Electric vehicles and levitating high-speed trains will benefit immensely. We will see a drastic increase in energy efficiency. Putting it together with high-efficiency superconducting motors, I wonder - "Gas stations will become obsolete?". 2⃣ Energy Storage and Transmission. First, we will see the emergence of LOSSLESS electrical grids with extremely long distance of electricity transmission. Second, a RT superconducting coil is a “perfect battery”. It can store and release a lot of energy with 100% cycling stability and ulta-slow “self-discharge”. It will change everything, from power grids to space shuttles. 3⃣ Computers!!! We will see the emergence of ultrafast, low-energy-consuming computing devices. Stable quantum computing at RT may become a perfectly feasible thing. Overall, this will revolutionize the ways we build computers and devices. 4⃣ Extraordinary sensors in everyday life. Currently, regular superconducting sensors (e.g. near-IR single-photon detectors, or magnetic field sensors) need very low temperatures and are used in very specific/expensive domains. RT superconductors will bring them to our houses, changing the technologies around us forever. 5⃣ Super-cheap MRI machines for medical diagnostics. MRI relies on superconductors, but they can operate at very low temperatures, making the instruments super-expensive. With RT superconductors, they will become compact and cheap. New era for accessible medical diagnostics! 6⃣ High-efficiency and powerful motors. When conventional electric motors incorporate superconducting materials, it will make them a LOT more efficient. Reduced energy consumption + smaller size will revolutionize the industrial machinery and appliances. I am sure that airplanes with electric propulsion will finally become possible. 7⃣ Nuclear fusion may become viable (and controllable) because superconductors are one of the key ingredient. As you see, such a discovery will change the world as we know it. ▫️ Now, the key question is - can someone reproduce these results? As far as I see, many groups have jumped into this topic. Let’s wait for the outcome! #AcademicTwitter #Engineering

Tomorrow, Doctor @AnnaLatorre14 will visit us at @UCLouvain_be. Join us in person, if you are around, or let me know if you would be interested in having the link to join her talk online! 🤓 @DuqueLab #movementdisorders #neuromodulation #TMS

If you’re around, you’re invited to join this talk by Prof. @ignacio_obeso at @UCLouvain_be this Friday! 🤓

Excited to see my entire newsfeed celebrating this. I think this could turn out to become the historical „NeuroImage event“ that changed publishing in the Neuro community. @ElsevierConnect @WileyNeuro @SpringerNature take note!

PD folks your voices matter. EPA pledges action on TCE! "The collective evidence association between TCE exposure+#Parkinsons accumulating. Many research groups examining the association and we anticipate more information will be available soon." foxnews.com/health/is-park…

The @ICNeuromodulate lab is hiring a medical doctor for @ERC_Research #StG on #reinforcement effects of #deepbrainstimulation in #Parkinson disease at @ChariteBerlin. Come discover how we support instead of disrupt brain circuit activity with #DBS, #ECoG & #MachineLearning.

"I feel passionately about spreading the word to the general public that Parkinson’s isn’t a disease that just affects older people." Tizzy is 27 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the age of 25 and had originally investigated symptoms when she was 21. This is her story 👇🏽

Moving, fast and slow: Excellent review by Damian Herz and Peter Brown on #Parkinson bradykinesia from the perspective of behavioral modelling and control and utility theory. Is Parkinson's disease bradykinesia the result of changed effort cost computations?

"If data on childhood trauma and Parkinson's can be replicated, we must ask why?" "Reminder: how important obtaining a complete life history can be when strategizing on a plan. Life experiences matter and can impact symptoms." #vp_2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medscape.com/viewarticle/98… jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

12 scientific abstracts will be selected for “Hot Topics” @WorldPDCongress to present your work in front of up to 1,000 people, including many of the leaders in the field.Deadline 13.1.23 wpc2023.org/page/callabstr… @basbloem @MichaelOkun @DrISubramanian

@loic @elonmusk Wow, that would be a huge leap for humanity! 🚀💫

😂 thanks! @elonmusk and myself know each other, long time we haven’t talked though sadly. Hi, Elon 👋 hehehe. Should I tweet a poll?

Barber et al. show that patients with REM sleep behaviour disorder with established dopaminergic deficits have blunted pupillary responses to reward. Pupillary reward sensitivity may therefore be a marker of prodromal dopaminergic decline. bit.ly/3EEGsvM

Un lien établi entre des altérations du contrôle moteur et la maladie de Parkinson dailyscience.be/08/12/2022/un-…

Very grateful to the team of @UCLouvain_be for helping us make our research findings more accessible to non-specialists with these types of articles! 🧠 🙏🏼🤓🫶🏼@GDerosiere @DuqueLab @insilicobiology 👩🏼‍⚕️👨🏼‍🔬🧑🏽‍⚕️

Delighted tspeaking about living #parkinsonsdisease @EUneurology event tomorrow. You can still register online & raise your voice for our needs as #womenlivingwithneurologicalconditions. @ParkinsonsEU @FitzgeraldFrncs @naiireland @ParkinsonsIre @womenspdproject @MyMovesMatter

It's world #movementdisorders day! @movedisorder @PMDAlliance @ParkinsonDotOrg @MichaelJFoxOrg @DavisPhinneyFND @WNGtweets @pdavengers @WorldPDCongress Shout out to @RichelleFlan & @MoroElena4 - Speaking to the MEP - #women #parkinsons @womenspdproject youtube.com/watch?v=iPHD-_…