Instructor at Stanford University.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined March 2022
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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The United States supports its friend Bolivia as it charts a new path towards pro-market reforms. Productive conversation with Foreign Minister Aramayo today as we strengthen our relationship and advance common goals in our region.
ALT Secretary Marco Rubio meets with Bolivian Foreign Minister Carlos Aramayo at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., February 4, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)
Gratitude to the thief who took my ebike in March. I bought a fixie, mastered its repair, shed 10 pounds since and feeling better than ever. As God weaves good from evil, so too does adversity forge virtue. Rise, confront chaos, and find meaning! #Lemonade
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A @PurdonLab classic.
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Next up is neuroengineer Patrick Purdon, who discusses whether EEG can serve as a marker of brain resilience. He notes that we still understand little about delirium, but new EEG tools may help track real-time cognitive changes in clinical settings.
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We have officially started collecting data on our Awake EEG and Aging Study which looks at EEG brain activities associated with aging and preclinical Alzheimer's!
Here is the study design poster that Amber and Julia presented at the Stanford Anesthesia Department Retreat
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Thanks to everyone in the @PurdonLab @RyanNipp @BalanzaGus @rggutierrez1 @Ran_Liu_16 and teams at @MGHanesthesia @stanfordanes who helped contribute to this work!
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A study suggests that increased intraoperative opioid administration is associated with lower postoperative pain scores and postoperative opioid utilization, with mixed results on longer-term opioid prescribing. Read the December 2023 SM&A: ow.ly/5W0350QgVoA
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A Narrative Review Illustrating the Clinical Utility of Electroencephalogram-Guided Anesthesia Care in Children
🧠 Well-established clinical management principles in children can be complemented by addition of EEG monitoring.
#pedsanes
buff.ly/3rLK0bC
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Multicenter EHR data from >234k adult non-cardiac surgical patients is used to predict maximum pain after surgery.
This #MachineLearning model prospectively outperformed clinicians, & can identify comorbidities that drive postoperative pain.
nature.com/articles/s41746-0…
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PNAS recently published what is hands-down the most detailed study of the relationship between measured personality and intelligence
Let's go through it
First up: Neuroticism and the General Factor of Personality
Intelligence is negatively related to uneven temper and anxiety!
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Our study found that reduced opioid administration during surgery may have the unintended outcome of increasing postoperative pain and opioid use. The paper is now out on @JAMASurgery. Read it here:
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
New paper from @FangyunT @NatureComms shows that ketamine increases gamma oscillations in frontal and limbic structures, and that propofol can reverse this effect in prefrontal cortical structures. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-3…
Excited to share this work finally published @PNASNexus. We are trying to better understand what the brain tells us under the effects of Fentanyl @MGH_PurdonLab @MGHanesthesia
#Fentanyl #EEG #Opioid
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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Researchers from Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at @MassGeneralNews and colleagues find that fentanyl produces a unique brain signature, in a @PNASNexus study. doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pg…
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176 years ago today, the 1️⃣ successful public demonstration of the use of ether for surgical anesthesia was performed at MGH. Every year on Oct. 16, we celebrate #EtherDay, the birth of #anesthesiology and the transformation of surgery to a humane and often lifesaving therapy.
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Researchers find a novel electroencephalographic signature highly correlated with fentanyl concentration and respiratory depression. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/AGTj50KIbtA
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Deadliness associated with #DrugMisuse of #fentanyl explained by its causing breathing to stop before sedation kicks in, say researchers from the department of anesthesia of the Massachusetts General Hospital bit.ly/3BfpItq
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On this day in 1848, Phineas Gage was working on a railroad when a 7-inch, 13½ pound iron rod was accidentally driven into his head. Amazingly, he survived. His skull, along with the rod, are part of the Warren Anatomical Museum at HMS.
ALT A framed black and white photo of Phineas Gage holding the tamping iron that caused his frontal lobe injury