Romy Hoque

Sleep Medicine physician, Professor of Neurology at Emory. Opinions expressed are my own. RT or Follows are not endorsement.

[Adam Hunt @RealAdamHunt]

🚨Just published in the British Journal of Psychiatry!🚨

Evolutionary explanations of anxiety rated as 5x more useful for patients and 3x more useful for clinicians than genetic explanations of anxiety!

Our paper is the largest RCT of evolutionary explanations to date!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers make billions of dollars.
Elsevier: $3.9 billion, Springer Nature: $2 billion, Wiley: $1.8 billion

As for peer reviewers, they are paid $0.

ReseachHub is a new online platform that pays peer reviewers up to $150 per review:

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Being an Associate Director taught me what tenure committees really want to see:

• Applications tailored to each institution's mission
• Networks built through genuine collaboration
• Teaching that shows measurable impact
• Research output that builds on itself
• Service that solves real problems

Persistence pays off.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

How to write a hypothesis

[Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience @URNeuroscience]

New #URochesterResearch via @NedergaardLab uncovers the “missing link” in how sleep restores the brain. Natural oscillations drive the cleaning process, but common sleep aid zolpidem may disrupt it🧠
via @CellCellPress
👉https://t.co/8HE4WmfQbk

[Gina Poe @doctorpoe]

This is amazing! It shows that Ambien (zolpidem) does induce sleep but also puts the 🔵LC down, too. Pahsic activity in LC is important to clear the brain of toxins.
"Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep: Cell https://t.co/JBetIuPB3i

[Sleep Research Society @ResearchSleep]

🌟 Congratulations to the SRS’s 2025 Annual Meeting Awards recipients, which recognize excellence in sleep & circadian research. Recipients will be recognized at SLEEP 2025 in Seattle.

➡️Learn more about each award & recipient here: https://t.co/vFhneUfBSH

[Thanh Dang-Vu @DangvuTt]

In this letter signed by >50 Canadian experts in insomnia, we emphasize the lack of accessibility to safe and recommended treatments for insomnia, and urge our policymakers to invest in the wellbeing of Quebecers and Canadians by funding these treatments. https://t.co/5Rf1DkgPhj

[TheBetterPath @TheBetterPath_]

This teenager exposed the dark truth about sleep deprivation.

He signed up for a sleep-deprived experiment to find out where it would take him.

What he discovered might surprise you.

This is the full story: 🧵

[Bryan Carmody @jbcarmody]

Aw jeez, not this again.

According to this consultant, hospitals now *lose* an average of $304,312 per physician per year.

🤦🏻

Guess it’s time for another thread on Budgetary Gerrymandering.

[Romy Hoque @romyhoque]

Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In. https://t.co/7Ui4sr8Klj

[Romy Hoque @romyhoque]

https://t.co/IkHfZQ4Fb7

[Seema Khosla, MD FCCP FAASM @sleepdoc5]

Look at what my friend and colleague @matthorsnell did! https://t.co/uFtR6C5ssJ #sleeppeeps @AASMorg

[Satchin Panda @SatchinPanda]

Almost 50 years ago a seminal discovery identified the suprachiasmatic nucleus as the master circadian clock in mammals. Here is a comprehensive review on the SCN as this discovery turns 50.
https://t.co/ZRmx866PWx

[JAHA @JAHA_AHA]

Cleveland Clinic researchers identify association of sleep-related hypoxia and AF independent of lung physiology. #AHAJournals @ReenaMehra0203 @DrHeinZzzinger @ClevelandClinic @CleClinicMD @CleClinicNews https://t.co/EkpwhRAKRV

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Want to know why most academic writing sucks?

It's not the research.
It's not the methods.
It's not even the topic.

It's the words.

Most junior academics make these critical mistakes:

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Blood pressure does not always correlate with perfusion. I can’t emphasize this enough. A patient can have a normal blood pressure yet freezing cold extremities, severe skin mottling, and be profoundly malperfused in florid shock. Understanding this concept will literally save lives.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

[Negar Fani @NegarFani]

Appreciate the thoughtful commentary and input from experts on our work--a compelling call to awareness on how #racism affects #brainhealth. @NeurologyToday @ElbasheirAziz Racial+Discrimination+Contributes+to+Cellular+Aging+and...+%3a+Neurology+Today https://t.co/bcJIagei8l

[Neurology and Neuroscience | Karger @NeuroKarger]

Phantom Restless Legs Syndrome
🔗 https://t.co/ZMZzbaQSO4
✍ Raggi A. et al.
📖 #EurNeurol
#RestlessLegsSyndrome