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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 4d

patients and their caregivers. They truly are our generations astronauts and deep sea explorers. Boldly going where no one has been before. Massive respect and gratitude to them for their collaboration and faith in us as we navigate this path 🙏🏻🧠
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 4d

to @MountSinaiNeuro, I can’t tell you how excited I am about patients who have the potential to benefit from the full range of assistive and augmentative technologies, and how far we have come in just a few short years. As always, we are beyond thankful to the courageous
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 4d

anatomy (versus neighboring brain regions). It is precisely this sort of work that is going to teach us where and when to place implants in recipients who have the potential to benefit. As we wrap up another year of phenomenal talks from day 2 of the @NYBCI conference thanks
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 4d

long-term implant solution. The next paper, led by @HunterSchone and @jenpgh and @RNELabs shares some cool data that demonstrates, objectively, that the performance of the stentrode is directly related to how well it covers the primary motor cortex

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Motor Cortex Coverage Predicts Signal Strength of a Stentrode Endovascular Brain-Computer Interface

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology for individuals with motor impairments, enabling the command of digital devices using neural signals. The Stentrode BCI is an impl...

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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 4d

derived from the stentrode (overview below) over more than one year, which gives us faith that this technology can persist in the body and sustain digital independence in the user over long periods, making it a highly feasible technology for locked-in patients needing a
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 4d

Two new #BCI preprints hot off the press as we wrap up our first-in-human trial testing safety and feasibility of @synchron’s Stentrode implant. The first paper, led by the incredible @chettaaay and @dougweberlab shows us the stability of the recordings

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Signal properties and stability of a chronically implanted endovascular brain computer interface

Background Implanted brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) establish direct communication with the brain and hold the potential to enable people with severe disability to achieve control of digital device...

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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 5d

10 yrs ago l got to meet Daryl Davis after hearing him speak. In times like these I find myself reflecting on whether his style of advocacy can still work in 2025? I happen to believe that it still can. “When two enemies are talking they aren’t fighting”

www.npr.org/2017/08/20/5...

How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes

One by one, Daryl Davis has befriended KKK members over the past 30 years. The more they got to know the African-American musician, the more they realized the Klan was not for them.

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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 7d

Timely @TheLancet paper about #Longcovidkids, showing that risk of developing #LongCOVID effectively doubles in kids after their second infection.

Now do third, fourth, nth infections…

“We knew how to protect you, and we didn’t”

🤔 sound familiar?

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

the world is upside down, the appropriate response to deafening silence in the wake of mass-disabling of our children is to scream at the top of your lungs. That's what Violet was doing on Tuesday. That's not anxiety, that's humanity.
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

that doesn't mean that we're wrong. It's easy to dismiss an act as simple as continuing to wear a mask to safeguard one's health as 'extreme' simply because it is no longer typical behavior. To those who feel this way, I'd ask you to consider the following: sometimes, when
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

correctly could, without hyperbole, safeguard our future through protecting the physical, cognitive and social health of our children. Until we have these measures in place, many of us will continue to mask to remain safe. Of course, we understand we are in the minority, but
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

tools to achieve this, we just don't have the will...yet. Far UV-C lights, HEPA filtration, good ventilation, pathogen surveillance protocols are good, actionable ways of keeping a population healthy. This is responsible use of existing technology that if implemented
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

What we ARE, in fact, advocating for is the implementation of common sense measures that mean that when you walk into an indoor space in 20-damn-25, you can feel confident that the air you breathe is free from pathogens that can cause lifelong or life-ending harm. We have the
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

people who are 'in the know' wear masks and use other prophylactic precautions in situations where exposure is likely because we've been cursed with the ability to do objective risk assessment (which may correlate with NOT experiencing many cumulative IQ losses...who knows?).
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

hell out of all of us for taking exception at people who dare to state this truth as being dismissed as 'anxious'. The final thing I want to say on this is that advocating for clean air is not the same as saying 'everyone needs to be wearing masks at all times forever'. The
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

an international emergency that is massively affecting global public health. Now we have millions of children who have had their futures stolen from them by Long COVID and millions more who are living in near-constant risk of the same happening to them, so you will excuse the
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

Lay people who are -ahem- not doctors or scientists
-ahem- may ask at this point: how did we get it so wrong? Well, as it turns out, when young people told us they were sick, we didn't listen. We asked 'are you sure you're not just anxious or depressed?'. Well, now we have
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

Wrong. Not only have most serious medical societies walked back claims that #LongCOVIDkids were not getting sick at the same rate as adults - an absurd claim from the outset - but we also now see that it is now more prevalent than asthma in kids:

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens

This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.

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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

which is what this recent work showed us: academic.oup.com/cid/article-...

So - every #COVID infection we survive causes cognitive damage, every COVID infection still carries with it risk of #LongCOVID, but at least kids are safe from LC, right? Because kids are so resilient, right?
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

cause cognitive loss (on average a loss of 3 IQ points for EVERY infection): www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

So, every COVID infection is doing damage, whether you get #LongCOVID or not. But people are getting Long COVID - at an alarming rate and at a rate that is not slowing down,
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

2024, one of the UK's most prestigious universities, published evidence in one of the world's most prestigious journals using data from a cohort of 800,000 people. The verdict? Even mild SARS-CoV-2 infections that people recover from with no reported persistent symptoms still
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

young person communicating science? Because she's right. She's right and its scary. It's curious that this coordinated attack came out of the UK, since one of the most important papers about COVID and cognitive impairment (in the absence of #LongCOVID) came out of the UK - in
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

communication as hysteria to remind you that we are indeed living in one of the most uninformed fucking timelines available. However, I'd beg you to step away from the peanut gallery for a moment and recognize it for what it is: a distraction. Why the ad hominem attacks on a
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

got to hear from @loosewomen: an all-woman UK chat show that heard a young woman effectively communicating consensus science about the dangers of COVID, and so naturally decided to talk about health anxiety. Nothing like an all-woman panel dismissing a strong woman's science
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Boo-trino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 11d

wasn't just Pemberton that got in on the attack. I mean, I suppose to some extent you expect it from the Daily Mail: their constant thirst for relevance means that they're never above rage-baiting their readership to attack a 19 year old for communicating science, but we also
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