Sebastian Ortiz, MD
@Sebasortizdelar
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Pediatric Neurologist - Epileptologist - PhD student at @SyddanskUni - @yesilae Chair 🇨🇴🇩🇰
Joined February 2011
"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors." One mentor isn’t enough, wrote @DrErikaMoore in this 2021 #ScienceWorkingLife essay. https://t.co/XgdDIDP7NL
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Your abstract is costing you citations. Here's the formula top researchers use to fix that. The 7 components you MUST include: (only if you want to publish in Nature though 😊)
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MRI Neuroanatomy 101 🧠 The red nuclei (red), mammillary bodies (pink), optic tracts (yellow), & cerebral peduncles (dark blue) are marked here. Fibers of the cerebral peduncle are organized from anteromedial to posterolateral as: - frontopontine (FP) - corticobulbar (CB) -
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Keep hearing about these new gene therapies, and can’t keep up? Here is a concise & practical review for those in (pediatric) neurology - https://t.co/PVbvoAsEea
@GreenJournal #Pediatrics #Neurology
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Over 300 million people globally are affected by rare diseases, many of which present predominantly with neurologic symptoms. Rare neurologic disorders pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic...
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What’s the most influential course I’ve taken for computational genomics? Hands down: HarvardX’s Data Analysis for Life Sciences by Rafa Irizarry & Mike Love. Here’s why 👇
rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu
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Issue 42.1 includes an excellent @ACNS_org Guidelines article by Wusthoff et al with some great information about #cEEG in #neonates. Read more here: https://t.co/YhSgsBwnTe
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Attending the 1st Latin American Congress on #Epilepsy #Genetics in Chile 🇨🇱 Huge congrats to Carolina Alvarez and @EdoPerezP for organizing this foundational and inspiring congress 🤩👏 #StrongerTogether #CollaborationIsKey #RareDisease #PrecisionMedicine
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Arya et al describe physiologic HFOs on #sEEG with different diurnal rhythms, clustering into 5 regions/networks. ☀️🧠🌙 @ACNS_org Read it here: https://t.co/Q2lxOixr8o
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Belelli et al. explore the role of GABA in integrating brain and GI tract functions. They discuss how gut bacteria use and produce GABA, influencing brain activity and providing potential therapeutic opportunities for brain disorders. https://t.co/FfJvxLjp9E
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Closing date 5th of January 2025 for any interested pediatric neurologists 🧠🧬💉
Come join us in @CHI_Ireland. Exciting expansion of the paediatric neurology department, to ensure we continue to develop & deliver the best care to children in Ireland. @jobswithCHI @orourked2 @evaforman4 #pediatricneurology #newjobs #epilepsy
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📝 Check out this new release with the participation of Dr Luis Querol! This thorough review on #GuillainBarreSyndrome is a must! @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/W7ZpC5VUXp
nature.com
Nature Reviews Disease Primers - Guillain–Barré syndrome is an acute immune-mediated polyneuropathy that can occur following infections or other rare triggers. In this Primer, Leonhard...
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research
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Our review on the past decade of evidence on social inequalities in stroke is now published in Stroke 🧠🏃♀️ @DiegoLucumiC @ijmarshall There is an urgent need for data from low- and middle-income countries 🌎 and on air quality, conflict, and migration 🧳. https://t.co/roBYjgl4UV
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The latest research on socioeconomic status (SES) and stroke continues to demonstrate that individuals with low SES are at a higher risk of stroke, receive lower-quality care, and experience poorer...
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🧠 New research on #CochlearImplants: "Cochlear Implant Artifacts in Continuous EEG" sheds light on the impact of implants on EEG recordings. A must-read for clinicians in #Neurophysiology and #Audiology! Read more here 👉 https://t.co/5YfbFa2pfj
#EEG #Epilepsy #ENT @ACNS_org
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A new study this week @Nature showed how the most common blood test performed—the CBC, complete blood count—contains a treasure chest of information that we are missing in reporting out to patients and doctors. Reviewed in the new Ground Truths, link in profile
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Great to participate in a mega study analyzing 1386 epileptogenic brain lesions, confirming major role of somatic mutations in brain malformations 🧬
1/2 The largest study of its kind in #epilepsy: We characterized ~1400 epileptic human brain tissues for somatic variants & identified novel epilepsy associated genes & show that show that such genes are strong candidates for cancer drug repurposing #precisonmedicine ...
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⚡ Ya queda muy poco! acompañanos 😃 Últimos días para inscribirte! aprovecha las tarifas de inscripción temprana. Últimos días para subir tu resúmen y poder mostrar tu trabajo en CLEG! Fecha límite: 15 de Diciembre
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‼️Remember to join the @yesILAE / #EarlyCareer Reception 🛎️tomorrow afternoon at the Marriott during #AES2024 . A great opportunity to network, have fun & collaborate
Early career epilepsy professionals! Join us for the Early Career Membership Reception in partnership with @yesILAE on Dec 8 at #AES2024. Network, learn, and grow with your peers. #EarlyCareer #Epilepsy
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