Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz) header
Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz) profile picture

Sophie Fitzsimmons

@sofitz

PhD candidate @AmsterdamUMC | rTMS, neuroimaging , and obsessive-compulsive disorder 🧠 | Also music dabbler 🎵, quiz quizzer❓, and doctor 🩺

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined January 2013
  • Tweets225
  • Following219
  • Followers90
5Media
Photo by Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz)Photo by Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz)Photo by Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz)Photo by Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz)
The first four oral speakers are known! Helene Voetterl, @KerstensSilke , @sofitz and @annelies_bronck will present their interesting #neuroscience research at #BeNeBrainStimulationSymposium the 9th of november. uhasselt.be/Brain-stimulatio… @Fac_Revalidatie @Hersenstim
Image from Sybren Van Hoornweder (@HoornwederVan)
5
1
6
150 jaar NVvP op 17 november! Neem interactief deel aan het online programma met oa Odile van den Heuvel en Sophie Fitzsimmons (@sofitz) over het belang van neurowetenschappen en Birit Broekman en Noralie Schonewille over psychiatrie en zwangerschap. youtu.be/jMjxOiD3-z8
2
1
3
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Linda Douw (@LindaDouw) profile picture
Linda Douw@LindaDouw2 Feb 2021
New preprint out on cross-scale markers of integration - from cell morphology/electrophysiology to fMRI/MEG network centrality - and memory! With @sofitz @JeroenJGGeurts Christiaan de Kock, Natalia Goriounova and many others. 1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Neuronal morphology and physiology, functional brain networks and memory in temporal lobe epilepsy

Neuronal morphology and physiology, functional brain networks and memory in temporal lobe epilepsy

Temporal lobe epilepsy patients are heterogeneous regarding cognitive functioning, with predominant risk of memory deficits. Despite major advances within cellular neuroscience, neuroimaging, and...

biorxiv.org
1
3
2
8
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Clare Gerada (@ClareGerada) profile picture
Clare Gerada@ClareGerada27 Jan 2021
My tips for surviving leadership bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n195
Clare Gerada: Tips for surviving leadership

Clare Gerada: Tips for surviving leadership

My New Year’s resolution was to declutter paper and create order among my bookshelves and cupboards. As I did so I came across a sheet of paper given to me in 2010, when I became the Royal College of...

bmj.com
18
64
25
208
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Ben Coates (@bencoates1) profile picture
Ben Coates@bencoates124 Nov 2020
I’m not saying Dutch people are sometimes a bit lacking in wit and imagination, but there was a big national competition to name the new zeesluis (sea lock) in IJmuiden, and after months of debate the winner was.... “Zeesluis IJmuiden” 😂
50
74
87
661
In case you missed it: Contract tracing apps used to reduce the spread of #Covid-19 are unlikely to be effective without proper uptake and support from concurrent control measures, finds a new study led by Dr @izzybraithwaite ( @UCLPsychiatry and @UCL_IHI: bit.ly/2Eud2E0
app on a mobile phone

ALT app on a mobile phone

2
1
Yesterday, PNN, @PostdocNL and @DeJongeAkademie sent a pressing letter to @ivanengelshoven, asking for funds to help researchers who are dealing with research delays due to COVID-19. Read the English version of the letter here: hetpnn.nl/wp-content/uploads…
10
23
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Ben Goldacre (@bengoldacre) profile picture
Ben Goldacre
@bengoldacre7 May 2020
OUR NEW PAPER. Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients. Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere. The power of UK / NHS data, realised. opensafely.org/outputs/2020/… medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY

Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY

Nature - OpenSAFELY, a new health analytics platform that includes data from over 17 million adult NHS patients in England, is used to examine factors associated with COVID-19-related death.

nature.com
156
1,961
670
2,957
NEW blog: "Keeping yourself and others safe: Leadership in the age of COVID-19" @jimmcmanusph shares his own hard-learned experience and some helpful pointers for supporting yourself and others: centreformentalhealth.org.uk… #COVID19 #MentalHealth
Image from Centre for Mental Health (@CentreforMH)
1
24
3
20
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Linda Douw (@LindaDouw) profile picture
Linda Douw@LindaDouw31 Oct 2019
Proud of our department @AnatNeu_Ams and specifically @JeroenJGGeurts @HannekeHulst @StefProuskas in the roundtable discussion! – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis) profile pictureKoninklijk Huis
@koninklijkhuis31 Oct 2019
Koningin Máxima bezoekt het @amsterdamumc. In het Imaging Center wordt gesproken over inzet van scanapparatuur bij het opsporen van ziektes. In het Translationeel Hersenlaboratorium bekijkt Koningin Máxima demonstraties van hersenonderzoek. koninklijkhuis.nl/actueel/ni…
Image from Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis)
Image from Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis)
Image from Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis)
Image from Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis)
1
3
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Simon Wessely (@WesselyS) profile picture
Simon Wessely@WesselyS14 Nov 2016
Well done @Kandinskyonline for tackling and succeeding with tricky novel subject. West End please timeout.com/london/theatre/s…

Still Ill

This review is from November 2016. 'Still Ill' is back at New Diorama in January 2018.Among less sensitive doctors it’s diagnosed as SLS - ‘shit life syndrome

timeout.com
1
6
5
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
The BMJ (@bmj_latest) profile picture
The BMJ
@bmj_latest14 Oct 2016
#BobDylan has won Nobel Prize for Literature @bmj_latest acknowledged his impact on medicine in this xmas2015paper bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h650…
Image from The BMJ (@bmj_latest)
27
1
24
Hospital crises show the gap between how doctors and patients perceive events | Ranjana Srivastava | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
3
1
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Chaucer Doth Tweet (@LeVostreGC) profile picture
Chaucer Doth Tweet@LeVostreGC7 Aug 2016
Florence and the Machyne Siena and the Deyvce San Gimignano and the Contrapcioun Orvieto and the Deus Ex Machina
2
35
2
100
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Brighton Gin (@BrightonGin) profile picture
Brighton Gin@BrightonGin24 Jun 2016
Image from Brighton Gin (@BrightonGin)
6
16
4
24
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
New Scientist (@newscientist) profile picture
New Scientist
@newscientist23 Jun 2016
Will today's awful weather have an impact on the EU #referendum vote? Possibly... ow.ly/AVtP301yrGF #flooding
Image from New Scientist (@newscientist)
8
27
8
25
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Guardian Science (@guardianscience) profile picture
Guardian Science
@guardianscience20 Jun 2016
Hallé/Elder review – Jonathan Dove explains evolution … with singing galaxies d.gu.com/Lc7r6Q
5
1
3
WE TRIED TO NAME A RESEARCH VESSEL BOATY MCBOATFACE WE SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF WETHER WE LEAVE EUROPE OR NOT.
29
922
3
1,169
Following news that Big Ben will be silenced for repairs, government unveil plan for new 'seven-day' clock tower.
27
752
1
557
Sophie Fitzsimmons retweeted
Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) profile picture
Stephen Mangan@StephenMangan5 Apr 2016
5 of us #GreenWing ‘docs’ are going to Northwick Park Hospital (where we filmed the series) tomorrow to support the junior docs.
169
1,379
2
2,743
Load more