Neurdle - Neurology Word Game

A daily word-guessing game. Final answers are all related to neurology or neuroscience. Be careful... proper nouns, plurals, and abbreviations are fair game!

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Neurdle 1000!
Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us and our educational neurology games for 1000 days!

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COVID19 can cause this, and other types of brain inflammation, as reviewed here: https://t.co/mUohgYaS46

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Neurdle, November 5th, 2025:
A cytotoxic lesion of the corpus callosum (CLOCC; also called MERS, mild encephalopathy with reversable splenial lesion) can come from many different etiologies related to infection, inflammation and medication...cont. below

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Neurdle, October 29th, 2025:
What's scarier than a brain-eating fungus? Absolutely nothing - that's why I'm working on a script for a horror movie called "The Fungus that Ate My Brain," and I'm using this review to help keep it believable: https://t.co/FWEznZ18PZ

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that has to be distinguished clinically from the very common and completely benign positional plagiocephaly (when a baby has a kind of flat head, but the brain still grows normally). Read how to distinguish the two here: https://t.co/F9cWbh1bnb

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Neurdle, October 28th, 2025:
Oooooh, a skull - so creepy, so Halloweeny, so normal for housing the brain! Early fusing of sutures leads to a skull deformity called craniosynostosis - a major problem that prevents brain growth...cont. below

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Here's a paper on the neuroscience of the placebo effect: https://t.co/6x5JyJzRqQ

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Neurdle, October 27th, 2025:
Happy almost Halloween! Many of us will be eating a lot of sugar this week (why yes, it does increase your risk for dementia - but so does everything else, so why don't you live a little...cont. below:

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https://t.co/ikE91PRNIZ) so let's celebrate the sugar pill - the placebo. The placebo effect is remarkable in studies of pain, headache, sleep, depression - but also in seizures and dementia (phew! glad I found an antidote to this peanut butter cup).

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Antibodies to CASPR2 causes an autoimmune encephalitis with a wide spectrum of symptoms (oooh, scary!): https://t.co/jjXI9RN0Yo

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Neurdle, October 26th, 2025:
Happy almost Halloween! CASPR2 is not a friendly ghost - it's a cell-adhesion molecule that is important for localization of voltage-gated potassium channels...cont. below

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But whatever, neuroimmunologists are everywhere. Have you ever considered being a neurologist...IN SPACE? https://t.co/6Q17FcjzkV

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Neurdle, October 24, 2025:
Multiple sclerosis is diagnosed by a separation of demyelinating events in space and time; so it can theoretically be diagnosed clinically, without imaging; but check out all the other elements you CAN use for diagnosis in the new...cont. below:

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2024 McDonald criteria, intended to increase sensitivity and specificity https://t.co/d9Ew29e2Wo (paywalled).

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or in the setting of NMDA-receptor antibody-positive encephalitis (https://t.co/EFfcCs0mlK) with tachycardia, tachypnea, fever and dystonia.

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Neurdle, October 1st, 2025:
Don't get caught in the autonomic storm! Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity can occur after severe traumatic brain injury (https://t.co/dYtNt2ZbPt)...cont. below

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The Neurology Digital Education Collaborative (https://t.co/hPBaQEer7S) created by Jacki Martindale and Jess Goldstein is a great way to learn how to navigate changes in social media - and teach through online tutorials, podcasts, videos, blogs and more. Consider applying!

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Neurdle, September 30th, 2025:
Now Twitter is "X" and tweeting is "posting" and the world is difficult, but we still need to figure out a way to communicate neurology ideas with other neurologists and the general public...cont. below

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as an adjuvant to cooling in neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy https://t.co/S4W5eYQ23h and may help people climb really high mountains faster https://t.co/Avl7BUWkkW

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Neurdle, September 29th, 2025:
The word "neuroprotective" activates my BS detector, but the noble gas xenon has been explored for years in anesthesia...cont. below:
https://t.co/ULFmaJxow4