Arpita Gopal DPT, PhD

I defended my dissertation this week (with no edits 🥹)! So proud to be able to do this work, and very grateful to my committee and advisors

#MSMILAN2023: Dr. Arpita Gopal (UCSF) – researchers detected changes in function by analyzing “self-care selfies” – videos of buttoning, brushing teeth, and eating; possibly a low-cost way to track progression/assess treatment effectiveness. Abstract: ntlms.org/48D16Jw

#MS clinicians: #Fall detection & monitoring “prompt hub” to⬆️early ID of those at risk of #falling & provide discussion prompts for prevention & treatment strategies, including importance of #PT referral. cp.neurology.org/content/13/5/e… @arpitagopal @jgelfand @BoveRiley @ValerieBlock1

Listening to digital health business pitches at #sxsw…so many entrepreneurs are out of touch with the reality of on-the-ground clinical work. Would love to see more clinicians in this space, which is why I admire the work of @webby_do, @drhemalee, & more / cc: @chrissyfarr

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“Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It's perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.” - Jane Smiley

I’m a biologist in a film: No matter what I’m looking at, it’ll be through a low-power light microscope. The sample will also be on a sealed slide but moving. I work for a super villain at a private company, never an academic lab. I don’t struggle calculating moles or dilutions.

My manuscript wasn't rejected 🙏 Wasn't accepted, either. Just wasn't rejected today 💯

I’m a nepo baby (my parents never kicked me off their cell phone plan)

Telerehabilitation improves access to care for people with MS but we still have a lot to learn! Check out our new paper in @IJMSCtweets

@itsdrjorge Did you dress up as pepper?!? 😻

@itsdrjorge you did GREAT!! 10/10 points for enthusiasm 🥳

@itsdrjorge @AllisonPR 🎉✨🎉

@cayce_shaw 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

@DenaDubal @cayce_shaw @jusabdulsam amazing work! congrats @cayce_shaw and team! 🎉

Just out. Kdm6a is an X chromosome factor that is lower in males compared to females. We found that acutely increasing Kdm6a enhances memory independent of its demethylase function in the #aging XY male brain. @cayce_shaw @jusabdulsam biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Eleven regains her powers through neuroplasticity and VR

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I was talking to a physical therapist about neck exercises for my chronic neck pain & she described one of the movements as "what you do when someone gross tries to kiss you," & that was so epically perfect we are now best friends forever.