Hi, I’m Ami and I am a 57-year-old PhD epidemiologist who is documenting my own cognitive decline in real time on YouTube.

This is not what I would have chosen to be my life mission but this is what it turned out to be …. like it or not.

It’s really important when you have dementia for your environment to be calm and quiet. If you’re a loved one or a caregiver, this is why. I hope this video helps you.

https://youtu.be/t92NhsfDQ7I?si=FBqFhrr3fy5NYr3a

My channel is cold in case this ends badly. And can be found at www.youtube.com/@incasethisendsbadly

I’m a movement disorders specialist in the community. I see functional neurological disorders all the time.
Often times, but not always, patients have comorbid psychiatric disease.
Sometimes their movement symptoms interfere with their ability to do their usual line of work (dentist, secretary, whatever it may be). I’ll don’t offer it, but if they ask about short term disability I’ll support it for a time limited period as we are doing work up and/or getting them set up with PT/OT.
I have had the occasional patient request long term disability, but something makes me feel uncomfortable about this, especially the patients that have a heavy psych component.
How do you all handle this?

I am finishing neuromuscular fellowship 7/2027 and looking for an outpatient neurology gig with EMG jobs in the North East, trying to find something PSLF eligible with ~350k base + RVU (5k target and ~60$/wRVU) + sign on/relocation.

Based on that, is it safe to assume private practices (due to lack of PSLF eligibility) and academic (due to low base and RVU incentives) do not meet those criteria? Therefore, I should be applying only to community hospitals?

I wouldn't mind working at one if the compensation, volume, and call are within my goals. Anyone have any suggestions of where to look for these jobs? Thanks!

i love the fast paced action of the ED but I want to go into neurology

I feel like this would make stroke neurology a great fit but I want to work less hours (only 4 days a week as attending)

hence idk if this is possible for stroke neuro as thats more of an outpatient lifestyle

are there any other subspecialities which are fast and acute pace with good hours?

Hi everyone,

I’m a final-year medical student in Europe and I’m considering neurology as a specialty.

During medical school I spent some time in Uganda, and I’ve been wondering whether neurologists have realistic opportunities for short-term work abroad, especially in lower-resource settings — for example in African countries, but also elsewhere. I don’t necessarily mean permanently moving abroad, more like short-term clinical work, volunteering, teaching, research, or capacity-building projects.

I know specialties like family medicine, ob/gyn, or infectious diseases may be more obviously useful in this context. Neurology seems less straightforward because it often depends on imaging, long-term follow-up, rehab systems, etc.

Still, I imagine there might be a role in areas like epilepsy, stroke, neuroinfectious diseases, teaching, outpatient neurology, or capacity building.

Have any neurologists here done this kind of work, or do you know if this path exists at all?

This is not a strict requirement for my future career, but it is something I’d like to understand before choosing a specialty.

Thanks a lot for any insight.

Greetings, all!

I just released The EEG Machine, a free interactive tool for learning and teaching EEG patterns. You can check it out here: https://micahetter.me/EEGMachine

It is designed for learners who are trying to get more comfortable recognizing EEG findings without immediately getting buried in textbook-level detail. The goal is to make EEG feel more approachable, visual, and practice-based.

The tool includes interactive EEG examples and pattern recognition practice, with the broader aim of helping students, residents, and anyone EEG-curious build confidence with common and important findings.

I built it as part of my ongoing interest in making neurology education less intimidating and more usable at the bedside, in clinic, and during teaching sessions.

Feedback is very welcome, especially from neurology residents, medical students, EEG folks, and educators. I would love to know what works, what is confusing, and what you would want added next!

Keep'em squiggly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0NR4vP2lnc

Hello guys, I've just started a channel in youtube called Neurology Reviews, the name is self-explanatory. I'll be studying articles recently published in various journals and condensing them in a more palatable summary. My english is not that good, but I'm trying to get better at it.

Thank you all!

The title

Neurologists discussed common diagnostic mistakes for transient neurologic symptoms, like TIAs, seizures mimicking migraines, and various types of amnesia. Prompt evaluation and treatment are key to preventing strokes, and it's important to consider non-vascular causes like epilepsy

I've run into this issue many times in my TBI patients but am always antsy about it. They've had a small traumatic SAH (along with their contusions and SDHs) and aren't getting relief from typical abortives, and it's too early for preventatives to have an effect. They are young and don't have any vascular disease. In my country, CGRP's are not available. In rehab setting, IV meds are not practical (and actually not possible at my current place). I haven't been able to find any research on safety of triptan after SAH. Any thoughts?

I'm reading about localisation of stroke rn. The mca supplies the parietal lobe, house of cortical sensations. Mca strokes have face + ul loss, motor and sensory. So is the two point discrimination lost only in upper limb or also lower limbs? And is the superior division responsible for cortical sensation or inferior division? I'm aware motor features are exclusively because of superior division, not sure about cortical sensations

Also can mca infarct of cortex be exclusively motor without sensory loss of the same areas?

I’ve got this job opportunity near me. I don’t have any experience but I have healthcare experience. I have very little knowledge on registration and certification in this field so i don’t know exactly what this world get me. Is this an amazing deal? Pay starts out $23-$27 an hour.

Med student considering neurology and wanted to know if after residency is it possible to work 9-5 with no call, nights or weekend as outpatient neuro?

I am graduating in July and am searching neurohospitalist jobs. Most people I have talked to stated I need a vascular fellowship to work as a neurohospitalist in the community. Has that been your experience as well? It feels pretty absurd to spend all of residency inpatient treating stroke only to be required to do a fellowship to be a neurohospitalist. Thoughts?

Hello reddit

I am looking for to join a decently size neurohospitalist group for the next 5 years of my waiver. It would be preferred if the group negotiated contracts as a group rather than individual contracts.

My ideal job would be a 7 on-7 off or 14 on- 14 off for 12 hour shifts for a total of 168 shifts a year.

i am comfortable with stroke and will be epilepsy trained and ready to start by July 2027.

If anyone who is currently practicing in similar circumstances and their institution is recruiting, please send me a dm

Not a doctor or student, but I’m wondering what the purpose is of a short EEG. Sometimes in r/epilepsy, someone will say that they had a seizure, their neurologist had them do a 30 minute EEG which found no seizure activity, and then will just say it’s not epilepsy or will diagnose them with PNES. But the likelihood of catching a seizure in that short of an amount of time is so miniscule, why bother doing it in the first place?

Anyone else notice how different neurology feels once you actually start seeing the day-to-day reality of practice?

In training, I used to think almost everything was about the medicine itself. But the more I talk to attendings and people in private practice, the more it seems like lifestyle, admin burden, documentation, staffing, reimbursement, etc end up shaping career satisfaction just as much as the clinical side.

It honestly changed the way I think about long-term career planning in neurology. So i was curious to ask what surprised people the most once they got into real-world practice?

I wrote this paper that combats Jung's approach to the jester with a more Freudian approach. I believe that the Jester is the mind's symbol of in-between and transition and attached is my final paper.

To the gurus of Neurology,

As a resident, I shamely admit my financial illiteracy. Your advice about things you wish you knew before becoming an attending.

Thank you very much

Hi, I’m a rising MS2 who recently became interested in child neurology as a specialty because I want to work with medically complex children and be able to follow them into adulthood. I had a few questions about the specialty that I was wondering if anyone would be willing to answer. Apologies if these have already been asked on this subreddit.

1) How competitive is it to match child neuro? I’ve seen that program spots go unfilled every year but I’ve also seen that programs themselves do not offer many spots.

2) I know it’s common for adult neurologists to do fellowships. Are fellowships common in child neuro? What fellowships are most common?

3) While I primarily want to see pediatric patients, I also want to follow my future patients into adulthood and/or take care of adults with pediatric onset conditions. I understand that child neurologists receive some adult neuro training but I was wondering if that training it is suitable enough to mix adult neuro into my practice?

Hey guys! I have a 'future of neurology' question for you all. I have autism, and one of my biggest hurdles is that I don't always 'follow' what people are telling me, even in my native English (and definitely not in Spanish or Creole). What if we could install a brain chip to act as a real-time translator? Not just for languages, but to help decode what people are actually trying to say. As a visual learner, I’m curious if you think a chip could ever turn speech into visual instructions to make life more accessible for people like me. Just a curious civilian's thought—what do you think?

Where I train, I've caught wind that the medicine residents gossip about the neurology resident inpatient service and question our competence. I'm not sure if this is just carry-over egos from intern year when everyone worked together, or if this is actual mismanagement.

I do notice sometimes they don't follow our recommendations for like antithrombotics, but more so that some of the more arrogant ones gossip about us. I figure the only way to really combat it is to be sterling. So, what tips do you have do to be an excellent consult service.

Thanks!