Today is the final day of The Aspen Course! Thank you to the outstanding faculty members and participants for being part of the legend and the tradition.

There's more women in academic #neurology, but a widening #gendergap in publishing. Why? Allison Brashear, MD, MBA and other editors and women chairs weigh in and discuss their strategies to close the gap. Got fresh ideas? Share them with us! bit.ly/2M8glPI #MondayMotivation

The hardest task a neurologist has after diagnosis of Parkinson's is to give a prognosis with a modicum of precision. Young or old, tremulous or non-tremulous, axial or limb dominant not much use. The age of the patient and co-morbidities most helpful QS Brain Bank MovementDisordersUCL

Really nice review! Is sensory processing as important in generalized dystonias? nature.com/articles/s4158…

Nick Ward @BrainRecoveryP Meret Branscheidt Amy J Bastian In our study we looked at the effects of muscular fatigue, but also found a possible central mechanism affecting skill learning when fatigued. So next step would be to see if central fatigue might result in similar problems.

New paper out. Fatigue is detrimental to motor learing with implications to rehab. Brain stimulation might be helpful. doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Great, thought provoking talk by John Ioannidis from Stanford University. There is too much noise in science.... but there are ways to find the signal.

[Motor-evoked potentials by TMS in the motor cortezx] Akkad et al.: “Surround inhibition is not necessary for successful focal contraction, but may contribute during learning and during attention to task.” doi.org/10.1016/j.clin… UCL #TMS #MEP #ClinicalNeuroph

Thank you @DMRF for such a fantastic dystonia meeting in Dublin. Enjoyed debating how to move traditional disease frameworks forwards! This review summarises hot topics in human neurophysiology: authors.elsevier.com/a/1h8q0H06x01Bw Petra Fischer Dan Piña-Fuentes Panagiotis Kassavetis, MD, PhD

Pleased to share our work Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements Journal . Grateful to my colleagues and co-authors Ejaz Shamim, Kranz Gottfried and Mark Hallett. Eye-closure rate in blepharospasm varies a lot between tasks. Important to take into account when evaluating BSP in clinic. doi.org/10.5334/tohm.7…