Mark Goldberg 🧠
@markgoldbergmd.bsky.social
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Professor of Neurology, UT Health San Antonio. Vascular neurology | Neuroscience | Research: stroke recovery, AI, long covid | Cat family | He, him
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Am I the only one who sees a field of myelinated axons?
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Day 5 of #inktober - the prompt is deer

#inksketch #sketch #sketchbook #deer #inktober2025 #inktober2025deer
#drawdaily #drawchallenge
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Ok but it’s not power coffee until you add the immersion oil.
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I’ve been doing it wrong. . . all these years.
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Incredible story about genius and neuroscience. Thanks for posting it here.
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New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com!

Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on??

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Question Has hospital length of stay increased more for Medicare
Advantage beneficiaries than for traditional Medicare beneficiaries
since the COVID-19 pandemic?Findings In this cohort study involving more than 89 million
hospitalizations from 2017 to the third quarter of 2023, Medicare
Advantage beneficiaries experienced disproportionately greater
increases in extended hospital stays, especially among those
discharged to skilled nursing facilities.Meaning These findings suggest that the Medicare Advantage
plan design and practices may contribute to hospital discharge
delays, with implications for patient outcomes and hospital
capacity as enrollment continues to rise.
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Dallas and New Hampshire researchers tested 128 long COVID patients with suspected dysautonomia.

Despite heavy symptoms, most showed normal results.

Only 16 percent met criteria for POTS, suggesting true autonomic dysfunction is uncommon.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Minimal Objective Autonomic Dysfunction in Long COVID
www.sciencedirect.com
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I think this was a large implementation but maybe these numbers compare just a few selected thrombectomy patients? Wouldn’t make sense for the group as a whole.
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Great conversation today. Welcome to San Antonio, Sam! Stop by the lab next time you’re virtually here.
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Spectacular - I used to know some of this!
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These are amazing! Do you still remember it all?
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Greatly appreciate this review of epigenetic mechanisms underlying regeneration competency only in young animals. Especially timely perspective for those of us puzzling over CNS repair.
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Happy Birthday, new Parkland Hospital!

Thrilled to have been with the stroke team that admitted the very first patient, 7:01 AM, 10 years ago *today*!

While I've moved to San Antonio, Parkland still stands as a model for outstanding public hospital care.

www.parklandhealth.org/news-and-upd...
News & Updates | Parkland Health
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There’s a great addition that could have a sentence in the Sci Am article!
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Sadly misleading title. There’s nothing here about making nerves regrow in the adult human brain. Is this how we want to report science advances?
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Yeah that didn’t happen. Stroke code #4 and it’s not even 5 pm. Shouldn’t have posted until my stroke week was done.
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As owner of the stroke service “black cloud” it’s good to see the ED is well prepared for our kind of day.
Photo of many ER beds lined up in hallway, ready for the inevitable rush of simultaneous stroke alerts. Each bed has a sign “STROKE BED.  Please do not remove.”