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Mitchell R. Spezzaferri, PhD

@mspezz

Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellow | VA Long Beach Lecturer in Psych Science | UC Irvine Prev. Resident | Denver Health Medical Center Researching epilepsy and neurodegenerative diseases 🧠 πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« MTG player on the side

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500. That’s the maximum number of tabs you can have open on iOS safari.

I found out the old fashioned way.

16.01.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Confidence intervals are confusing intervals. The reason is because they tell us something about what happens across many confidence intervals, not in any single confidence interval. In the long run, 95% of 95% CI contain a population parameter. 1/n

05.12.2024 08:01 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
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156| Updated Diagnosis and Staging Criteria for Alzheimer’s Disease – A Conversation with Dr. Cliff Jack and Dr. Kevin Duff Podcast Episode Β· Navigating Neuropsychology Β· 12/01/2024 Β· 1h 45m

Really cool point countetpoint discussion about #alzheimers diagnosis between Cliff Jack and Kevin Duff: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

The pod also references our recent article on the topic: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/QMMRM...

03.12.2024 02:50 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! πŸ‘€
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?

Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!

Here is a 🧡 with a few options!πŸ‘‡ 1/9

02.12.2024 16:52 πŸ‘ 274 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 11

These visuals are incredible!

03.12.2024 15:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Neuropsychological measures tend to predict real world outcomes pretty well, providing clinical value even as we make big strides in biomarker accuracy and availability

28.11.2024 00:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Babulal GM, Chen L, Murphy SA, Carr DB, Morris JC. Predicting Driving Cessation Among Cognitively Normal Older Drivers: The Role of Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Clinical Assessments. Neurology. 2024 Jun 25;102(12):e209426. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000209426. Epub 2024 Apr 15. PMID: 38776513; PMCID: PMC11226325

Babulal GM, Chen L, Murphy SA, Carr DB, Morris JC. Predicting Driving Cessation Among Cognitively Normal Older Drivers: The Role of Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Clinical Assessments. Neurology. 2024 Jun 25;102(12):e209426. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000209426. Epub 2024 Apr 15. PMID: 38776513; PMCID: PMC11226325

1- Can we predict when it may no longer be safe for an older adult to stop driving?

Poor performance on a cognitive battery & progression to MCI/dementia are more predictive of driving cessation than are Alzheimer's biomarkers.

Summary: www.nia.nih.gov/news/cogniti...

#medsky #geronsky

26.11.2024 23:54 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Residency | VA Philadelphia health care | Veterans Affairs fellowship, residency, internship

Applying for a Clinical Neuropsychology Fellowship? Consider our APA-accredited 2-year Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Crescenz (Philadelphia) VAMC. Applications are due Dec. 15.

27.10.2023 13:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Such a great group!

25.11.2024 20:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0