Author Archives: Joseph Thornton MD

Carel Le Roux ⁦‪@carel_leroux‬⁩ Tirzepatide for the treatment of obesity: Rationale and design of the SURMOUNT clinical development program doi.org/10.1002/oby.23… 12/9/22, 10:12 AM Joseph Thornton

Hugo Chrost ⁦‪@chrost_hugo‬⁩ A global view of cognition and its disruption in psychiatric disorders. Source: ⁦‪@Nature‬⁩ #neuroscience #MedTwitter pic.twitter.com/SAU9b4Hlyf 12/9/22, 1:00 AM Joseph Thornton

Eric Zelikman ⁦‪@ericzelikman‬⁩ ChatGPT can write stories and then tell DALLE-2 prompts to illustrate them. I asked it to write a children’s story about “a robot that wanted to be a human.” Here’s the story it came up with: (0/11) 12/8/22, 3:19 PM Joseph Thornton

Michael Okun ⁦‪@MichaelOkun‬⁩ Brief Assessment of Impaired Cognition (BASIC) was a valid way to assess cognitive dysfunction. Better than MMSE? Validity of Brief Assessment of Impaired Cognition case‐finding instrument for identification of dementia subgroups and staging of dementia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/en… pic.twitter.com/36U1WIP1kI 12/9/22, 8:30 AM Joseph Thornton

Michael “Mike” Albert, MD ⁦‪@MichaelAlbertMD‬⁩ BF on weight bias against bariatric pts: “People who live with obesity who may want to get a bariatric procedure that very well could save their lives, find themselves often in a really unfair limbo, which is, in a way, that they can PROVE they can lose X amount ofContinue reading “Tweet by Michael “Mike” Albert, MD on Twitter. Brendan”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ozempic-weight-loss-drug-supply-11669927944 Joseph Thornton

🥼Agingdoc1⭐MD, PhD 🔔 ⁦‪@agingdoc1‬⁩ Molecular mechanisms of exercise contributing to tissue regeneration nature.com/articles/s4139… pic.twitter.com/6bQwlZB96S 11/30/22, 7:18 PM Joseph Thornton

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin ⁦‪@bethsawin‬⁩ This is good: “The climate crisis is not fundamentally an engineering or environmental problem, it’s a problem with dominant ways of thinking, of relating to each other and the dominant systems we have created.” belonging.berkeley.edu/obis-climate-j… 11/30/22, 3:08 PM Joseph Thornton

Paul Thompson ⁦‪@PTenigma‬⁩ BREAKING NEWS: New #Alzheimer drug #Lecanemab slows cognitive decline (18-month change in CDR-SB) by 27%, drastically lowers brain amyloid load by 59 centiloids to 23 (below PET amyloid positivity)! NEJM paper: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… prnewswire.com/news-releases/… #CTAD pic.twitter.com/vGWmuJIiV2 11/29/22, 8:31 PM Joseph Thornton

Ian Kremer ⁦‪@LEAD_Coalition‬⁩ Please re-Tweet if you agree: It is so hard to find time for your own #health when caring for someone who has #Alzheimers disease or another form of #dementia. But it is essential for quality #caregiving. #diet #exercise #sleep #mentalhealth pic.twitter.com/sF96hetpOk 11/29/22, 1:42 PM Joseph Thornton