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Neuro. V 🙌🏻

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

Thankful to have matched in child neurology at VCU!!

#Match2024 #nmatch2024 #neuromatch

[Lea Alhilali, MD @teachplaygrub]

If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying!

Are you looking at MRIs?

Feeling some confusion about the diffusion?

Feel impaired when it comes to the FLAIR?

Wish you could cheat a little?

Here’s a post to help you cheat on all the sequences you NEED to know if you are looking at MRIs!

--T1: It’s for anatomy, so brain structures reflect the same color as real life. So gray matter is gray on T1 & white matter is white on T1. It’s also for contrast. Contrast material is taken up by masses making them light up & them easier to see.

--T2: It’s the water sensitive sequence. What is pathologic water in the brain? Edema! My attending once said, “Everything bad in this world is trying to turn you back into what you came from—water."

-- DWI: Diffusion detects stroke, which are bright on diffusion. But anything that makes space tight in the brain can be bright on diffusion (highly cellular masses, clotted blood, pus under pressure, etc.)

--Gradient: Gradient is sensitive to metals. And what’s the most important metal in body? Iron—bc iron is in blood. So gradient is our blood sensitive sequence

So now you know the basic MRI sequences and what they are used for! Now you get rid of all pretenses when it comes to MR sequences!

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

Peanut.

[Lea Alhilali, MD @teachplaygrub]

Is cranial nerve anatomy making you nervous??!!

High resolution SSFP imaging can visualize cranial nerves, typically for pts w/microvascular compression

But knowing their anatomy & location can help you on any imaging—bc if you know where they are, you know if they may be involved

Here’s what you can see on MRI:

Olfactory: along anterior cranial fossa above the cribriform plate

Optic: from globe, posteriorly through the orbit until intracranially optic nerves join to form chiasm

Oculomotor: from between the cerebral peduncles to cavernous sinus

Trochlear: From back of the midbrain at the aqueduct to cavernous sinus

Trigeminal: From pons at the middle cerebellar peduncles into meckels cave

Abducens: From undersurface of inferior pons anteriorly to dorello canal along clivus

7th/8th complex: From undersurface of inferior pons laterally to the IAC

Glossopharyngeal & vagus: from medulla where it looks like a clover to the jugular foramen

Hypoglossal: from medulla where it looks round like the spinal cord to the Hypoglossal foramen

Hopefully all this info of cranial nerves didn’t get on your last nerve!!

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

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[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@alsherbini_md What a great group of individuals 👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻

[amy ♓︎ @Amy__A_]

Showed up to work late. Took hour and a half lunch. Left early

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Depression may be contagious through a dysfunctional mirror neuron system.

🧵1/11

[Mikael @mikael_jibril]

All will be settled, all will be revealed, every voice will be heard and every tear will be accounted for.

[Tia 🇱🇧 @intiashead]

Make sure your partner can be a father like this one

[☔ @Whotfismick]

"i can't go out, i'm busy"

me being busy:

[ellie schnitt @holy_schnitt]

I actually do love being on a zoom call and admiring how beautiful I look in the fuzzy webcam camera. it’s like a modern impressionist painting. degas painting young professionals

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

pretty cool that my residency program housed the man who discovered brown sequard syndrome

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@AaronLBerkowitz @MedBookClub1 @NMatch2024 The emperor of all maladies

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@DianaCejasMD Thank you!!

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

Thankful to have matched in child neurology at VCU!!

#Match2024 #nmatch2024 #neuromatch

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@HelenBorel1 Thank you dearest

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@HelenBorel1 Thank you :)

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[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@VelmaRThompson1 Thank You!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Fatima ☤ @Fatimaissa21]

@farband Thank you!!