My flat smells very Christmassy after putting together these mulling spices as little preses for my awesome team!

Combining the interests of Victorian architecture, train geekery, local events and dancing like it’s 1999, we had a blast at the Silent Disco in the Crystal Palace Subway last night ….

Well that @humanists.uk event at The British Library was immensely enjoyable. The new book’s contributor list looks like a dream dinner party list…Tim Minchin, Sandi Toksvig, Paul Sinha, Stephen Fry, Dan Snow, Helen Czerski, Alice Roberts and slightly less expectedly, Frank Turner and Janet Ellis

Looking forward to this!

Andrew Copson@andrewcopson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Twenty more in-person tickets available for this event tomorrow evening with the wonderful Alice Roberts and Natalie Haynes at the British Library. Book before it's too late! P.S. You can still book to watch online too 👇 humanists.uk/events/what-...

Reading difficulties after a stroke are common. One type is neglect dyslexia. People misread words because they are not aware of the first or last letters of the word. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20714712/ Infographic by Bella Belbali

Nothing says The Joy of Turning 50 like a bowel screening kit

Hearing about L1 psychological support at #UKSF24. Hearing lived experience - “good psychological support lifts me up a bit, helps me to thrive. Bad psychological support can knock me down miles.” Words have a profound impact +everyone should have L1 Psych Support Training.

Inspiring to hear about a wide range of improvement projects at the Bart’s Therapies cross site Clinical Effectiveness afternoon today. Packed agenda, included Frankie and Poppy from our TH Community Neuro team, here with their development of a new #FND pathway. Lots to build on and share.

So where can I learn how to use PRPP? In the UK, we now have our first trainers: www.prpp-uk.com The next course starts tomorrow so you are too late for that, but keep an eye out for more courses in the UK, as well as Australia, Canada, Scandinanvia. I did my intervention course in Switzerland...

#OT #occupationaltherapy #Oats I love that I have only just noticed that autocorrect changed OTs to Oats in this post. I think that’s what I’m going to call us going forward. #RCoats

Will Chegwidden@willchegwidden.bsky.social · 2y ago

Reposting this thread about PRPP as I know we are getting new arrivals every day. It’s a fantastic, ecologically valid tool for OTs to support their behavioural observation analysis, based on task analysis with both assessment and intervention arms. Take a look Oats…

I'm recruiting for my co-production workshops with health care workers involved in stroke and cognitive assessment at #UKSF24 If interested in helping out, please get in touch or grab me in the lobby today :) we hope to run these workshops in the new year.

Reposting this thread about PRPP as I know we are getting new arrivals every day. It’s a fantastic, ecologically valid tool for OTs to support their behavioural observation analysis, based on task analysis with both assessment and intervention arms. Take a look Oats…

Will Chegwidden@willchegwidden.bsky.social · 2y ago

If I had to choose one tool that has informed my practice as an OT it is the PRPP (Perceive, Recall, Plan, Perform) System. In neuropsych terms it is framework for OTs to use for behavioural observations,formulation and treatment. www.occupationalperformance.com/the-perceive...

Neuro OT/PT/SLT? Just arrived on Bluesky? Here’s a starter pack

Will Chegwidden@willchegwidden.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have started a pack for neuro and stroke OT/PT/SLT, to make it easy for people landing. There are some other great more general neuro/neurorehab packs, but this is just to help people landing. Using "neuro" in it's broadest sense and have included some "honorary" AHPs go.bsky.app/2Wvb8C9

Have had a couple of week’s break from work related social media to celebrate a big birthday… thanks to these groups of peeps and others! Feel very blessed.

I’ve never seen a beetle get married but I’ve watched an ant elope

To help people just landing, here is a starter pack for neuro OT / Physio / SLT

Will Chegwidden@willchegwidden.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have started a pack for neuro and stroke OT/PT/SLT, to make it easy for people landing. There are some other great more general neuro/neurorehab packs, but this is just to help people landing. Using "neuro" in it's broadest sense and have included some "honorary" AHPs go.bsky.app/2Wvb8C9

As people are arriving on a daily basis, I’m reposting some of the content I put up when I first joined. Here is a thread on neglect / hemispatial inattention

Will Chegwidden@willchegwidden.bsky.social · 2y ago

In an attempt to generate some content on here, I'm going to share some of my favourite neurorehabilitation and neuroscience resources, articles and courses from the past few years. First up, #neglect / #hemispatialinattention kesslerfoundation.org/research/str...

This is a super cool researech project using wearables to match subjective symptom experience against physiological/autonomic markers. Stepping stone to really understanding the mind/body interface (and helping our understanding of #FND www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Real-time biopsychosocial antecedents and correlates of functional neurological symptoms in daily life: A pilot remote monitoring technology study

Functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD) is a neuropsychiatric diagnosis referring to symptoms resembling those of neurological disorders, occu…

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Dr Vancleef doing some lovely short infographics on common visual perceptual and visual cognitive topics. Agnosias: often overlooked. know your aperceptive versus your associative agnosias :-)

Kathleen Vancleef@kathleenvancleef.bsky.social · 2y ago

Difficulties with recognising objects is not unusual after a stroke. It can help to think of the visual system as an hierarchical process to understand what exactly is challenging for a patient, but the debate is ongoing.

I’ve put a couple of threads up about useful things from career - articles, websites, courses, people to follow. As people keep joining will periodically repost them. This one was on ADULT ACQUIRED LIMB APRAXIA.

Will Chegwidden@willchegwidden.bsky.social · 2y ago

For a long time there has been a move away from describing #apraxia in terms of ideomotor/ideational and instead looking at more useful clinical terms. If you are going to read one article on apraxia, make it this one by Dr Elisabeth Rounis www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Today one of London’s Overground lines officially becomes the Mildmay Line. In the 1980s, before effective treatment, the Mildmay Hospital pioneered AIDS care. In 1987 Princess Diana famously shook hands with a patient there, a small gesture of solidarity which made front pages across the world.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

I'm delighted to announce that the next international conference by the British Aphasiology Society will take place in Dundee, Scotland on 18-20 Aug 2025. Bookmark the website to learn more details as they arrive! blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/ See you there! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BASconf24 #BASconf2025 #BSkySpeechies

Physiotherapists interested in neurological conditions should join www.acpin.net #physiotherapy because 2025 is going to be properly exciting!

Well I’ve taken flight and arrived in Blue Sky! Looking forward to chatting with lots of old and new contacts in the neuro rehab world!

Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day. Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.

Another great B6 OT rotation hosted here at Kings, including my service Community – CNRT Critical Care Neuro Major Trauma Rapid Access to Acute RehabTeam Neuro Rehab Orpington Hospital Neurosurgery Neurology Paediatrics Stroke Neuropsychiatry Rehabilitation (Lishman) www.kch.nhs.uk/current-vaca...

Today is about Alexia. There are many types. Pure alexia is a rare but devastating condition after stroke. People are unbale to read even though they can see the text clearly. More details: tinyurl.com/46ktxrhu or tinyurl.com/yth7arv3

I heard a new phrase today: limbic hijack. It’s what social media manipulation does to your brain.