Casey Halpern

I am a neurosurgeon specialized in movement, seizure, and psychiatric disorders with a lab bridging the gaps in medicine to develop neuromodulatory therapeutics

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain why an AI art company just built a full-body medical scanner, because almost everyone is reading this as a random pivot.

Ultrasonic CT works by firing sound through your body and recording the ripples that scatter back. Half a million emitters the size of a grain of sand, surrounding you in water, each one listening. What comes back is noise. Reconstructing a clean 3D image of muscle and tissue from that scattered acoustic mess is an inverse problem, and it is brutally hard. The hardware is the easy part. Butterfly Network already makes the chips. The reconstruction is where every previous attempt stalled.

That reconstruction is the exact problem Midjourney spent years getting good at. Turning ambiguous input into a coherent image is what they do. They aimed it at sound waves instead of text prompts.

This is why the scan takes 60 seconds while a full-body MRI takes 60 to 90 minutes. Close to 100x faster, no radiation, no magnets, resolution down to a fraction of a millimeter.

Then read the part most people skipped. The scans happen at a spa. Hot tubs, cold plunges, and a machine that quietly images your whole body while you relax. The scan is a side effect. You barely notice it.

Run it forward. The plan is 50,000 machines doing a billion scans every month. Midjourney has no investors and no quarterly hardware margin to chase. The payoff was never the scan fee.

A billion monthly full-body scans is the largest longitudinal map of human anatomy ever assembled. Every model trained on it gets sharper, and every sharper model makes the next scan worth more. This was always an image company. They just found a kind of image nobody else could generate.

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

Brain activity in an individual on tirzepatide #Tirzepatide #FoodScience https://t.co/hkmRoDceXn via @YouTube

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

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[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

How Neurosurgeons and General Neurologists Can Partner to Expand DBS Access https://t.co/FuosH2oM26 via @YouTube

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

When can we offer deep brain stimulation for addiction as a treatment? Much to do to move that forward, but we provide great evidence to support this future here, which adds to the growing evidence that we can stop dangerous cravings in their tracks… https://t.co/aPP255YByV

[Daniel Yoshor, M.D. @DanielYoshor]

Tutorial on pocket square technique ⁦@PennNSG⁩ holiday party from our own ⁦@halpernc⁩. You too can look this good at your holiday events…or every day, like Casey!

[Penn Neurosurgery @PennNSG]

New in @NatureMedicine, @halpernc's team looked at the brain activity of a patient with loss of control eating on tirzepatide and revealed it may only temporarily suppresses signaling in the brain’s “reward center” thought to be involved in food noise.

➡️ https://t.co/4CfResGNs2

[The Daily Pennsylvanian @dailypenn]

Six researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine received National Institutes of Health Director’s Awards through the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, in recognition of their work in biomedical and behavioral science.

https://t.co/wx2K2LtHac

[Penn Neurosurgery @PennNSG]

Congrats to @halpernc who received an @NIH Director's Pioneer Award!

This will support his work developing less invasive and non-invasive strategies for treating disorders found very deep in the brain, such as major depression, OCD, and substance use disorder.

[Penn Medicine CSO @PennMedCSO]

Congratulations to @halpernc (@PennNSG), recipient of the NIH Director's Pioneer Award! Learn more about Dr. Halpern & his research interests here➡️ https://t.co/SxmijpGsXF #NIHHighRisk @NIH_CommonFund

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

🏀 Just like Steph Curry’s alley-oop to LeBron James in the Olympics, it takes perfect timing, trust, and teamwork to make magic happen. The same is true in DBS therapy—when neurologists and neurosurgeons work hand-in-hand, we deliver slam dunk outcomes for our patients. 💪🧠

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

I was great educating patients and their caregivers about Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation (aDBS) and other Neurosurgical options for Parkinson’s at Neuro Fitness Therapy in Wilmington DE today. What an amazing center for physical therapy!

#aDBS
#DBS
#medtronicDBS
#PDtherapy

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

https://t.co/btqOkRRcNV

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

Hope to see you there

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

Focused ultrasound for tremor, now offered @Pennsylvania Hospital with anesthesia for those wanting this incredible treatment for tremor without having to experience being awake for an MRI-based procedure.

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

Can we tune the brain with a pacemaker to improve uncontrollable urges to overeat? Let’s tune in! https://t.co/p5AfwnScjF

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

We are enrolling patients in our deep brain stimulation trial for those with obesity who have struggled despite bariatric surgery.

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

Hope you can attend to learn a bit about what you can do to treat your tremor!

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

We see a lot of patients with essential tremor at Pennsylvania Hospital and for a variety of reasons, focused ultrasound, deep brain stimulation, or gamma knife may not be an option for all of them. We completed our first laser thalamotomy yesterday with this magical result!

[Casey Halpern @CaseyHalpern5]

A little tremor control for the holidays!! The gift that truly keeps on giving;)