NIC

🧠Neuro International Collaboration 🔎A Curiosity-Driven Initiative 🔬Multi-Institutional, Multi-Disciplinary Nervous System Research 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇨🇳

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Congratulations to our team for their latest #Neurosurgery publication @DrMofatteh #AbdulkadirMohamed @msmashayekhi @GSkandalakis @c_neudorfer @saman_arfaie @m_m_sbh @RabiiAboulhosn #XuxingLiao @andreashorn_ & Prof. Keyoumars Ashkan

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https://t.co/DEdgYHXBFN

@ActaNeuro

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Congrats to our co-Founder @DrMofatteh on his latest appointment as Board Member of BMC Surgery. He now serves on the boards of:
Brain and Spine,
Scientific Reports,
Frontiers in Surgery,
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,
European Journal of Medical Research,
PLOS One,
BMC Surgery

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Congrats to our co-Founder @DrMofatteh on his latest first-author #neurosurgery publication in @ActaNeuro. This multi-center study investigates functional recovery in #stroke patients undergoing EVT & identifies key predictors of post-discharge recovery 🔽 https://t.co/mnyagrVQaM

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Many congratulations to our co-Founders @DrMofatteh & @msmashayekhi on their recent #Neurosurgery publication investigating awake craniotomy & brain mapping in deaf patients under the mentorship of Prof. Ashkan MBE @KingsNeuro in @JNeurooncol. Read more🔽
https://t.co/mUYYp4dthj

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Many congratulations to our Attending Neurologist Dr Chen and co-Founder @DrMofatteh on their latest original research publication, alongside colleagues @theneurolander & @AnaCaprara, investigating #stroke outcomes in very old patients🔽
https://t.co/By7zzhURYq

#Cerebrovascular

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Many congratulations to our co-Founder @DrMofatteh on joining an outstanding group of neurosurgeon colleagues, including @pja_hutch & @DrFehlings as a Board Member of @BrainSpineJ (@EANSonline50)🔽
https://t.co/c8fmwYU9HF

#Neurosurgery #AcademicSurgery #MedicalLeadership #EANS

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Congrats to our co-Founder @DrMofatteh on his latest first-author #neurosurgery publication in @ActaNeuro. This multi-center study investigates functional recovery in #stroke patients undergoing EVT & identifies key predictors of post-discharge recovery 🔽 https://t.co/mnyagrVQaM

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Congratulations to our co-Founder @DrMofatteh on his latest original research publication as corresponding author investigating clinical outcomes of 1053 #stroke patient undergoing endovascular treatment: @WorldNeurosurg 🔽
https://t.co/4FDHj68tV2

#Neurosurgery #Cerebrovascular

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Important insights for acute ischemic #stroke care!

Thrilled to share our recent multicenter cohort study on direct thrombectomy vs bridging alteplase in anterior circulation stroke following EVT by our co-Founder @DrMofatteh & colleagues:
https://t.co/clbai0GPel

#Neurosurgery

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Huge congratulations to our faculty mentor Professor Keyoumars Ashkan MBE on being awarded the Richard Ault Medal & Lecturer Award 2025!

Your leadership, innovation in neurosurgery, and dedication to advancing science inspire us all!

#AcademicExcellence #Neurosurgery

[King's Neurosurgery @KingsNeuro]

Congratulations 🙌 to Prof Keyoumars Ashkan for being awarded “Richard Ault medal and Lecturer award 2025”.

Prof also published his chapter on Basal Ganglia in the holy grail of Anatomy 43rd Edition of “Gray’s Anatomy” @ElsevierConnect

#neurosurgerygoals #parkinsons #dbs

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Great energy on morning rounds! Proud to see our co-Founder @msmashayekhi in action alongside such a fantastic team 👏🧠

[University of Ottawa Neurosurgery @uOttawaNSx]

Good vibes on morning rounds ☀️
Residents Dr. Nashed and Dr. Mashayekhi pause for a quick photo before heading to the operating room for a day of surgery

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Many congratulations to our Co-Founder @DrMofatteh & colleagues including @AbdalkaderMD & @rwregen on their latest original publication on endovascular treatment for stroke patients
https://t.co/Lrf5bmqEs8

#Cerebrovascular #Endovascular #Stroke #EVT #PatientOutcome #Neurosurgery

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

@DrYiminChen @DrMofatteh @NguyenThanhMD @BU_Tweets @INR_WFITN @TheNewANA1 @svinsociety @YoungNIR @FishingNeurons @QUBMedEd @strokefdn @ESOstroke @MThrombectomy Please copy & paste the link if you have a problem accessing it!

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

📢We’re conducting a survey & would love your input!

Your responses will help us improve #stroke patient outcomes undergoing endovascular thrombectomy (EVT).

Take the survey here
https://t.co/hBpOWE8QCk

Thank you for your time!
@DrYiminChen, @DrMofatteh & @NguyenThanhMD et al.

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Our tireless Co-Founder @DrMofatteh has been invited to peer-review 584 manuscripts so far for leading #Neurosurgery & #Neuroscience journals. We’re proud that his contributions have been recognized globally with an Exceptional Reviewer Award from @MDPI
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https://t.co/MHG1LV2NsI

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Congratulations to our Attending Neurologist @DrYiminChen & Co-Founder @DrMofatteh on their latest co-first author publication along with other colleagues, including @NguyenThanhMD & @leonardyeo1 investigating DC after EVT @ActaNeuro.
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https://t.co/17GoeP4HLO

#Cerebrovascular

[ABME @ABMEjournal]

DeepSeek-V3 is an open-source AI model drawing global attention for its combination of high performance, low cost, and customizability – raising both hope and hard questions about its role in healthcare.

In a letter to the editor, researchers reviewed technical documentation and related literature on DeepSeek-V3, a multimodal model developed by a Chinese startup. Their analysis highlights key architectural strengths, performance benchmarks, and areas of concern:

🔹 Efficiency: Trained on 14.8 trillion tokens using a Mixture of Experts architecture, DeepSeek-V3 offers fast inference and reduced compute costs – just $5.6 million, compared to GPT-4o’s $78 million.
🔹 Performance: Without fine-tuning, it outperformed some proprietary models on the MedQA benchmark for English medical questions.
🔹 Privacy & Security: Though locally deployable, DeepSeek’s open-source nature makes it more vulnerable to attacks, and its data practices have raised regulatory concerns, particularly in healthcare contexts.

While DeepSeek-V3 is a promising tool, its adoption requires thoughtful safeguards to balance innovation with accountability.

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: https://t.co/pgPl1nzepS

𝗟𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: DeepSeek’s Readiness for Medical Research and Practice: Prospects, Bottlenecks, and Global Regulatory Constraints

𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀: ArunSundar MohanaSundaram, Shanmugarajan Thukani Sathanantham, @phant0msp1k3, and @DrMofatteh

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁: https://t.co/Gyz8DNneUg

[NIC @Neuro_IC]

Excited to share our recent original research article conducted by our Co-Founder @DrMofatteh & colleagues @NguyenThanhMD, @rwregen on predicting the outcome of acute ischemic stroke patients undergoing endovascular thrombectomy
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https://t.co/oaztePMsF9

#Cerebrovascular

[UCL Discovery @ucl_discovery]

Open Access UCL Research: Long-term full-scale intelligent quotient outcomes following pediatric and childhood epilepsy surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis https://t.co/Pj7ZmYNxNC

[World Neurosurgery Journal @WorldNeurosurg]

🔍 April World Neurosurgery Open Access Article!

"Anxiety and Depression in Pediatric-Onset Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review"

https://t.co/YFmFrF47Vh

[Frontiers - Neuroscience @FrontNeurosci]

New Research: Developing and predicting of early mortality after endovascular thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke: Background

Stroke is one of the leading causes of mortality across the world. However, there is a paucity of… https://t.co/rIDQdQU0wK #Neuroscience