Stuart O'Connor

My new BJA Education Podcast on Anaesthesia for Elective Cervical Spine Surgery is now available: open.spotify.com/episode/3hzRnq…

My latest BJA Education Podcast on Anaesthesia for Non-cardiac Surgery in Patients with Adult Congenital Heart Disease is available on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0sdhUa…

@Arsenal, would you consider shifting your output to Bluesky?... you have 40K followers (@arsenalfc.bsky.social) but have made no posts. I would imagine Elon Musk and X are not representative of the values of this great football club

Integrating brainstem and cortical functional architectures | nature.com/articles/s4159… led by @JustineYHansen in @NatureNeuro 400 cortical regions + 58 brainstem nuclei. Lesgo 🤘🕶️⤵️

To advance the study of coma & consciousness, we created a @FreeSurferMRI algorithm that automatically identifies brainstem nuclei in MRI scans. preprint:medrxiv.org/content/10.110… code:surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/AANSegm… @olchanyi @JuanEugenioIgl1 @MGHMartinos @MGH_RI @MGH_CNTR @MIT_IMES

Our new paper on DMN changes in Burns intensive care patients is now available to read online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🛎 Don't miss your chance to join the BJA Education Board! Applications close this Friday 10th May 🛎 EIC Prof Jonathan Thompson tells us more about what the role entails. For full information visit bjaed.org

Researchers in Science have pinpointed parts of the genome linked to a few exceptional traits in the mammalian world, such as extraordinary brain size, superior sense of smell, and the ability to hibernate during the winter. scim.ag/5md #Zoonomia

During sevoflurane #anesthesia in male mice, activation of medial septal glutamatergic neurons has arousal-promoting effects, prolonging the induction and accelerating the emergence of anesthesia. Read the new research: ow.ly/wPnV50Qjjfv

A new issue is out today! In the cover study, researchers found that preoperative posterior alpha power, frontal-parietal connectivity, and cerebral oximetry were not associated with cognitive function after noncardiac surgery. Read the article: ow.ly/306M50PVfX5

Short arousals from sleep are normal, but stress can amplify them – a brain pathway identified in mice may explain why stress fragments our sleep 👇 #Echobox=1702747721" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/240791…

🧬 We’re excited to announce that we have sequenced the whole genomes of 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers! 🧬 The dataset is the world’s largest of its kind and we’re proud to make it available to approved researchers around the world 🌍 ow.ly/qsyy50QcJ7w #500KGenomes

The world’s first CRISPR therapy is approved: who will receive it? nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great end to the SMART Course with fantastic talks from @dr_romster @djramsaystubbs, Dr bashford & Dr Hobbs, Dr D'Sa and Dr Singleton

1/ New preprint! "General Anaesthesia Reduces the Uniqueness of Brain Connectivity Across Individuals and Across Species" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Each individual has unique brain activity 🧠But what happens when anaesthesia temporarily suppresses subjective experience? 🤔

Day 2 of the #SMARTCourse underway with two great talks from @Menon_Cambridge

Great first day of the #SMARTCourse with engaging talks from @charlot_summers, Prof Coles, @andymoz78, @djramsaystubbs, @RCEMpresident & @ilk21

#AI in Nature magazine: this week's issue features our AI/Machine Learning Consortium, creating AI methods for Alzheimer's disease nature.com/articles/d4158… Thanks @maxdkozlov for a great article + 1000000 congrats to @zhizhid @FeixiongCheng @ASaykin @chrisdav66 @lishenlc @birtutamtuz @wait_sasha @AdamMBrickman @njahanshad @AI4AD @KeckMedicineUSC @USC

OpenAI just released "custom versions of ChatGPT" and this is going to change the future of education and academic research. You won't need any coding skills to create a custom ChatGPT. You will be able to build them simply by talking to ChatGPT in natural language. Here Sam Altman builds a custom GPT in just 4 minutes that gives startup founders advice. He simply tells GPT Builder to create a GPT and it does that. You can upload your documents to it, enable its access to the internet, Code Interpreter for data analysis, even create images. Prompting is going to become one of the most valuable skills in the near future.

FREE TO VIEW review article: Concerns over the neurotoxicity of general anaesthesia on developing brains, linked to white matter changes & potential cognitive issues. More research is needed on mechanisms and prevention #Anaesthesia  bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-…