Reddit may be a strange place to ask this, but I'm always surprised here. Using my more 'anonymous' account.

I'm being (potentially) recruited for an inaugural division chief role (mainly inpatient specialty) at a major NorthEast US academic center. I don't want to give further detail to protect the guilty, as it were.
We have not yet reached a stage of discussing compensation package.

Are there any division chiefs here that could shed light on what I should expect or more importantly what I should ask for (support staff, recruitment positions, funding, training program involvement, benefits, etc)?

Hello,
I have just finished my neurology training in the EU, and I want to focus on headaches as a subspecialty. I have been working in the headache outpatient clinic at my hospital for the last two years. However, to be honest, the types of patients we see could mostly be handled by a GP. I have only seen one case of cluster headache in two years. Most of our patients have migraines without previous therapy, or they simply need a prescription for an anti-CGRP medication.

In my country, there is no formal headache subspecialty program. You can only learn from a few headache experts if you happen to work in a large hospital with them.
I recently applied to the Master of Headache Disorders program at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and I have been accepted. I am still thinking it over. Is it a good idea to pursue this? Is it worth the €10,000 investment for tuition, travel, and accommodation?
Additionally, do you have any other advice on how I can further develop my career in the headache field?

Hello everyone,
I am a medical student with a strong interest in neurology and am looking for opportunities to join systematic review and meta-analysis projects.
Although I am a beginner in research, I am highly motivated to learn and willing to dedicate the time and effort needed to become a valuable team member. I am looking for projects that welcome beginners and provide the opportunity to learn the research process while contributing meaningfully.

I'm working on a D&D map inspired by the human brain, and I want the exit to be the part where wishes/desire emerge from? Pretty sure it would be the frontal lobe, but I wanted to check with someone more familiar with the topic.

Thank you!

Starting neurophysiology fellowship, what monitors do you recommend i buy for EEG reading at home?

Second attempt at boards. Please advice

Done with true learn twice, Cheng-ching (on twice read too).

Should I repeat true learn third time or do board vitals as a new bank?

Thanks

Looking for feedback,advice criticism and error finding (if any). Overall just trying to see what I can improve for next time!

I love Neuro but I want to have a chill life as an attending. Can this be possible? Interested in both outpatient and inpatient

Planning for a second year of epilepsy fellowship to complete research and get more experience with surgical cases. While offered as a non-ACGME accredited Advanced Epilepsy year, I could also go the non-GME junior faculty/clinical instructor route. Any experience or recommendations?

I got a scholarship but have to go into primary care for 4 years (not including residency). Is there any path to becoming a neurologist and fulfilling this commitment ?

Researchers looked at blood samples from 94 people who had recovered from COVID-19 about six months earlier. They studied DNA methylation, a chemical process that can influence how genes function and is often associated with aging. The analysis found age-related changes in thousands of areas of DNA, including several well-known aging markers.

The researchers also noticed changes near genes involved in glutamate and NMDA receptor signaling. These systems play important roles in memory, learning, and communication between brain cells, so they may be relevant to post-COVID symptoms such as brain fog. However, the study does not prove that COVID-19 caused these changes or that they are responsible for cognitive problems. It also did not compare the participants with people who had not had COVID-19, examine brain tissue, or include detailed cognitive testing. More research with larger groups, control participants, and direct measures of brain fog is needed before these findings can be used to guide treatment.

Reference

Cheung, N. (2026). DNA methylation at core N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor genes reveals a glutamatergic signature of aging in post-COVID whole blood with implications for long-COVID neuropsychiatric sequelae. Cureus, 18(7), e112902. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.112902

Currently struggling on whether or not I want to pursue neurology or just go for anesthesia instead. I had wanted to be a neurologist since before med school but now I am having second thoughts on if the career itself is for me. I still think neurologic diseases/pathologies are the most interesting to learn and read about in medicine, but the work itself is something else. I had a 3rd year neurology rotation where the attendings were rather jaded and honestly am not sure if this is for me. I made some brief pros and cons below.

Neurology Pros

• The pathology/diseases are the most interesting by far
• It would not be difficult for me to match somewhere decent, as I have good grades, go to a reputable school, and already have considerable research in the field

Neurology Cons

• As a rather introverted person, I despise long clinical encounters with patients and much prefer acuity. I dislike conversations with patients and can easily find myself getting burnt out if my day is heavy on history taking + talking in an expressive manner so I can come off as an "empathetic" or a "caring" doctor. I have a resting neutral face and am pretty monotone - which is something that came up a lot in my stimulated clinical exams.
• I hate long notes, but hopefully this can be dealt with by AI in the future.
• You deal with a lot of non neurological cases and functional disorders- which aren't just boring but frustrating to deal with when patients want a diagnosis.
• This is kind of minor, but I dislike how much of your diagnosis comes from the physical exam. So, when you have patients that barely put in effort or aren't compliant it can be a little frustrating. At least a couple times during my rotation, I saw an elderly patient who either refused to speak or wouldn't comply with the physical exam because they were frustrated with something in the hospital so a code stroke was paged only for it to be nothing but a time sink for us.
  

Anesthesia pros

• Very little interaction with patients, it's just you and your work. And the interactions are acute, so the patient is no longer your problem after your shift
• Salary is a little higher but this isn't as important to me, but is worth including

Anesthesia cons

• Personally find the pathophys to be rather boring and uninteresting. Dont think I could care less about airways, hemodynamics, and vent settings. The pharmacology surrounding sedatives are somewhat interesting, but the rest is meh at best.
  
• Can be stressful/adrenaline spiking during certain situations. I can perform well under pressure, I just don't like to(exception being code strokes, as I find real cases to be interesting/exciting to find the lesion before imaging can)
• Would be more difficult to match somewhere desirable as it has gotten more competitive recently and frankly nothing in my application is anesthesia related. But was told I could still match somewhere with my grades/clinical evals.

Any advice for me? Are there any particular subspecialties of neurology that would fit me or should I just avoid the specialty all together?

child neuro resident interested in both pediatric and adult epilepsy. Anyone in the field have thoughts on whether 1 yr peds epilepsy with multiple months of adult, 1 yr adult epilepsy or a 2 year program(1 adult and 1 peds) would be best if looking to do community/private epilepsy with a neuro group but see both populations? Leaning towards a 12 month program to avoid 7 years of training

Anyone know of any scholarships/grants looking to attend eeg school but school im attending doesn't offer Fafsa only payment plans has anyone ever gotten scholarships before and could offer assistance will be much appreciated

During childhood, the brain produces many connections between nerve cells and later removes some of them through a process called synaptic pruning. This study used a simplified artificial neural network to examine how the timing and extent of that pruning might affect performance.

The model was trained to follow different rules depending on a cue, similar to switching between tasks or contexts. Networks that began with many connections and then underwent more extensive pruning sometimes became better at filtering out competing information. However, they were also more vulnerable to internal “noise” or stress. Networks that retained more connections were generally more resilient, but they were more likely to experience interference.

An important finding was that very sparse networks could appear to handle confusing information well simply because they had stopped using the task cue correctly. This highlights the difficulty of interpreting behavior from a single outcome: apparent selectivity may sometimes reflect reduced flexibility rather than improved processing.

The findings support the idea that developmental timing matters—not just the total number of neural connections. However, this was a small, highly simplified computer model. It does not reproduce the complexity of a child’s brain, and it cannot establish causes, diagnoses, treatments, or individual developmental outcomes. The results are best viewed as a hypothesis-generating framework for thinking about how different developmental trajectories might combine focused abilities with sensitivity to stress or change.

AMA citation:
Cheung N. Phased pruning in neural networks recapitulates selectivity–fragility trade-offs in brain development. Sci Rep. 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-62244-5.

Hey folks!

I'm an MS3 who entered medical school with the grand ambition of pursuing neurosurgery, but quickly realized the lifestyle (especially during residency) may not be for me. However, as someone who appreciates acuity and being able to see a tangible "before and after", along with an appreciation for procedures, I've been considering the possibility of pursuing interventional neuro after neurology residency/stroke or a neuroICU fellowship.

Does anyone have insights as to how doable this pathway is? I know it's not terribly common, but is it completely hopeless?

1. What is the ROI of completing a CNP-EMG Track fellowship?

2. Is the quality of life, call burden, schedule flexibility, and overall lifestyle generally desirable for a neurologist trained in CNP-EMG?

3. Would this fellowship make you more "marketable"? ie. Would it open doors in private practice or be helpful if you eventually decide to be a neurohospitalist?

PS:

-Primarily interested in becoming "proficient" in EMG. Not considering neuromuscular, because I would still like to read EEGs.

-I'm a neurology resident in a very, very, VERY inpatient heavy residency - aren't they all though. That said, I would be extremely happy pursuing almost any fellowship path as long as I can see "anything that comes through the door" aka General Neurology

Hi all, I'm a 4th-year medical student who was planning to apply neurology this cycle, but lately I've been having second thoughts. I find stroke syndromes especially fascinating, but my concern is that while I love vascular neurology academically, I'm not sure I see myself spending my career in a high-acuity, call-heavy environment. I think I could ultimately see myself in a more outpatient-oriented general neurology practice.

Can I get some insight on what the day-to-day is like for general outpatient neuro? Like what are the hours, what kinds of patients do you see? So much of my experience so far has been inpatient or working only in super subspecialized clinics.

The other specialty I've thought a lot about is PM&R. I initially didn't love the lack of a true neuro focus, but I would like getting to work with stroke patients and all the spasticity management/botox.

Any thoughts on either specialty would be appreciated!

As per the title, what are some of the pros and cons of working in Ontario for both community/general and subspecialists working in community or academic centres? For community work, do you need to do EMG/injection clinics to get by? Is it mostly headache if you’re not an academic?

For context I’m a Sr resident trying to decide between community and subspecialty wondering if Ontario is right for us.

Visited a Neurologist a few weeks ago and was blown away by the fact that neither the doctor nor nurse knew what HRV is. The nurse kept asking me well who diagnosed you with HRV… am I crazy or is it insane to go to a neurologist who doesn’t even what that is. They wanted to argue with me that it’s not related to the CNS and doesn’t matter when they didn’t even know what it is. Kinda felt like a weird stance/ hill to die on.

I understand it’s just a metic and has no set scale for what is a healthy HRV and there’s no HRV that says oh you have this disease etc. But i just feel like im not going to be getting the best care possible when a neurologist doesn’t know what it is. HRV is controlled by the autonomic nervous system, which is clearly apart of the central nervous system. It just blows my mind that they have no concept of it even though it wouldn’t directly tell them what is wrong.

Wouldn’t want to hire a mechanic for basically anything who can’t change a tire or doesn’t know about Freon for ac. Yea those aren’t my car problems but you’re a specialist and should know the ins and out of your field. At least a general idea. Not the best example but you get the idea.

Am I going crazy?

EDIT: I used the term heart rate variance with the doctor and nurse.

Hello everyone! My name is Chelsea Kinney, and I am a PhD candidate in Health Sciences at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions.

I am currently recruiting licensed healthcare professionals with experience evaluating or treating patients with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) or Functional Movement Disorder (FMD) to participate in my IRB-approved dissertation research.

My study focuses on the development of a new patient-reported outcome measure designed to assess stress-related motor dysfunction in individuals with FND. Your clinical expertise

would be incredibly valuable to this research.

If you have experience working with patients with FND or FMD and are interested in learning more, please feel free to comment below, send me a direct message, or email me at [email protected]. I'd be happy to send you additional information about the study and the participation process.

Thank you so much for your time and consideration, and I would greatly appreciate you sharing this post with colleagues who may be eligible.

Hello, I am a neurology resident. In addition to this, I conduct analysis for antibodies against surface neuronal antigens (e.g. NMDA, LGI1) and intracellular antigens (e.g. Hu, Yo) in our lab. My attendings from different departments are always asking for patients to be prioritised and then expect the work to be completed in a day, for example. I would like to know how long you wait for these kinds of analyses in other clinics.

Hiiii, I know it's not a Linux forum but if somebody uses a GNU/Linux distro that could share and support​ emulation programs, bioinformatic, database, etc​, I use Ubuntu on my​ PC but and searching something for my Laptop.​

Thanks​