Thomas Cope

I was delighted to be asked to write for Practical Neurology on treating and depression in people with epilepsy. Hopefully useful, practical advice to help all neurologists feel confident that this is within their competence: pn.bmj.com/cgi/content/fu…. With @eosimo and @PaulPcf22

@AlexHorne thank you for including our daughter Catherine in your amazing show tonight, an evening she will never forget. Afterwards she explained that she does know how to pronounce the word appendage but she was referencing Joanne McNally on Taskmaster: @taskmaster/video/7376584240114240801" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tiktok.com/@taskmaster/vi…

I am pleased @guardian showed the King's delight at our study of parallel transmit 7T MRI in Epilepsy. I am similarly delighted that it enabled a third of patients with negative conventional imaging to be offered a curative surgical treatment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ep…

A huge privilege to participate in the @ARUKscientist debate, discussing hope for future treatments for devastating dementias but also practical barriers to delivering current therapies both in NHS @CPFT_NHS and privately @spirehealthcare that need to be overcome for a true cure

Patients with epilepsy often complain bitterly about poor memory, but what can we say about how different types of memory are affected by different types of epilepsy? Kirsty Phillips' excellent review will be core reading for clinicians and neuroscientists doi.org/10.1016/j.seiz…

What does it look like to lose your understanding of the world? Drawings from patients with semantic dementia reveal a transmodal graded loss of concept knowledge: doi.org/10.3758/s13421… with @CambridgeFTD

Thrilled to share my latest paper, a culmination from my prior career chapter. Special thanks to my fellow co-authors @tccambs, @ccbrainlab , @CambridgeFTD. Immense gratitude to the patients and their families for their invaluable help. 🙏 academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

📢 CNS2024: Sleep, Consciousness & Cognition is live and open for registration 🌍Queens' College | April 5th 2024 🌟Incredible line up🌟 🔬Data blitz | Poster Exhibit | Industry Exhibit 🥂Dinner, Drinks & Networking 🎙️🌟Plenaries @anilkseth & @ADemertzi 🖱️neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/camneuro-event…

@CambridgeFTD Made all the better by your spectacular talk and cases on disorders of movement and cognition. Thank you again on behalf of the organisers and attendees.

As we near the end of #WorldFTDAwarenessWeek I was heartened by the multidisciplinarity of Practical Cognition 2023 course - psychiatry, psychology, neurology, specialist nurses and more, together to diagnose, treat and #EndFTD. @tccambs

@AlanCarson15 I think it's important to understand what degree of head injury or concussion begins this process. My experience is that school nurses are ultra cautious, and that the most minor of head knocks in the playground opens a protocol of exclusion, driven by fear.

Generally helpful but i d be interested if anyone can point me to shred of serious trial evidence to the red stage- as far as i am aware it comes from misleading dogma- open to being corrected

@ProfRobHoward @bykatewomersley I have no idea why I'm tagged into this - as a coeliac I am very limited in seaside options, but I am very grateful for Fish n Chicken's gluten free frying on Mondays and Tuesdays.

@bykatewomersley @tccambs Not in our experience. French's in Wells went through a poor patch but is now back on great form. Drifters in Fakenham pretty good too. (As you can see, I owe my impressive physique to frequent Fish and Chips).

If there’s anything better to eat than fish and chips, bought from French’s in Wells next the Sea and eaten in sunshine on the quay, I’d like to know about it.

@BrasilEdition @LA88NUFC He only cost 40 million!

@LA88NUFC All 11 are 😳

🚨Official: The Brazil lineup!

@ProfRobHoward He is always so accurate. "Absence seizures" in the elderly was my dissociative trigger as an SpR.

Poor neurologists!

@PaulPcf22 Thank you Paul. From you especially that means a lot!

This is such a lovely paper

@AlanCarson15 I can't answer this from our study, because the cerebellum was outside of the MRI coil for many patients, so is not included in the whole brain analysis. I think it is likely that it improves the motor speech prediction though, as without it speech is less accurately produced.

@tccambs Very elegant- to what extent do you think the cerebellum may be involved in some of the feedforward computations. I remember very interesting tms pilots but not sure where it wdnt

I am delighted to share a major collaborative study between Cambridge, Oxford, London and Newcastle that has really changed my understanding of how the brain predicts and perceives speech, and how this can go wrong in non-fluent aphasia [a thread] sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am extremely grateful to the patients, their families, and the healthy volunteers . To my collaborators, including @DrMattDavis @MasudHusain @AuditoryGroup @chrisrbutler @CambridgeFTD and others. And to the funders who made it possible, especially @acmedsci @theABN_Info

Overall, we propose a tripartite speech perception network in which inferior frontal gyrus supports prediction reconciliation in echoic memory, and precentral gyrus invokes a motor model to instantiate and refine perceptual predictions for speech.