Neurotip

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 8 months and 4 days.

About me

I'm an English neurologist. I've also done some research into progressive nonfluent aphasia and related topics. I'd prefer not to discuss my real-world identity here: call me Neurotip (that's ˈnjʊə.roʊ.ˌtɪp, not njʊ.ˈrɒ.tɪp)!

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Significant edits

Major edits

page	edited on	comments
Compression neuropathy	25.10.2009	created article
Dementia	25.10.2009	rewrote 'Causes' section
Neuropathy	25.10.2009	reorganised, see below
Rasmussen's encephalitis	2.3.2010	rewrote article
Bickerstaff's encephalitis	27.3.2010	created article
Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia	24.4.2010	merged with PEO
POEMS syndrome	4.7.2010	rewrote article

• Neuropathy: various articles merged into Peripheral neuropathy, Polyneuropathy and Neuropathic pain; see also discussion and plan

Small creations

page	created on	comments
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica	16.11.2009
Acta Neuropathologica	17.10.2009
Cryptogenic disease	26.10.2009	see discussion of Cryptogenic redirect
Encephalomyopathy	19.10.2009	converted from disambiguation page
Familial British dementia	22.8.2011	as stub
MSLP	16.6.2010	converted to disambiguation page
Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome	2.3.2010	as stub

Ideas for future edits

See Medicine and Neurology project talk pages.

Google project

• the central Google project page
• the WikiProject Medicine talk page entry
• pages I might be able to help with: Sleep apnea, Cerebral arteriovenous malformation

Missing pages

• Basilar artery thrombosis, Top of the basilar syndrome
• Brachial diplegia, Man in the barrel syndrome (see Watershed stroke)
• Brachial neuritis
• Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block
• Multi-system disease
• Neuronal migration disorder, but note Gray matter heterotopia, Cortical dysplasia
• Retrovirus-associated myelopathy
• Stroke scales:
  • ABCD2
  • ASPECTS score
  • Nihss and NIH_stroke_scale -- currently stubs, need expansion and redirects
  • ROSIER scale (will need a disambiguation page from Rosier!) (see Stroke page)

Pages in need of attention

• almost all the opathies...
  • myopathy, myelopathy, radiculopathy, even encephalopathy (and coma for that matter)
  • also plexopathy, lumbosacral plexopathy and brachial plexopathy
  • not to mention myeloradiculopathy and encephalomyelitis
  • neuropathy articles still need work: peripheral neuropathy, polyneuropathy, neuropathic pain
  • and the patterns of weakness: hemiparesis, hemiplegia, paraparesis, paraplegia, diplegia
• neurodegenerative disease...
  • Dementia, Cognitive impairment
  • Alcohol dementia, Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Frontotemporal dementia, Progressive nonfluent aphasia, Semantic dementia
  • Proteopathy, Tauopathy, TARDBP (amend statement about mutations)
  • Neuroacanthocytosis
  • Parkinson plus syndrome
• Gait abnormality and its children; of particular interest to me...
  • Antalgic gait, Festinating gait, Scissor gait, Spastic gait, Steppage gait
  • Myopathic gait and Trendelenburg gait: same thing?
  • Magnetic gait: same as Bruns ataxia? Gait apraxia and Apraxic gait are redlinked
• gluten sensitivity and neurology...
  • Gluten sensitivity, Coeliac disease
  • Gluten-sensitive idiopathic neuropathies, Gluten-sensitive enteropathy associated conditions; should these pages be merged, or the section in the latter shortened and directed to the former?
  • see also mentions in HLA-DQ1, Ramsay Hunt syndrome type I, Anti-transglutaminase antibodies
• Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy now exists!
• Stroke (see discussion at neurology WikiProject)...
  • pathophysiology, prevention and to some extent treatment would be better in the articles on infarction and haemorrhage
  • Brain ischemia, Cerebral infarction and Cerebral hemorrhage are shorter, overlap considerably with Stroke and seem redundant
• autoimmune encephalitis...
  • Voltage-gated potassium channel has no mention of disease at all!
  • Morvan's syndrome, Isaac's syndrome, Isaac's Syndrome, Isaacs syndrome, etc.
  • Limbic encephalitis, Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis, Encephalitis#Limbic_system_encephalitis
  • Anti-voltage-gated potassium channel encephalitis
  • Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
  • anti-ganglioside antibody: Bickerstaff's encephalitis, Miller Fisher syndrome
• miscellaneous...
  • Cerebellar ataxia, though note Ataxia
  • Nerve compression syndrome (was Compression neuropathy) needs references!
  • Demyelinating disease
  • Mevalonate inhibition needs to be merged with Statin, and content needs review
  • Mitochondrial myopathy; merge with Mitochondrial disease?
  • Neurological examination
  • Superficial siderosis

Wikipedia editing links

• writing articles...
  • Categorisation and category list
  • Disambiguation pages
  • Redirects
  • References, journal citation template and Dave's Template Filler
  • Starting a new article
  • Stub categories
  • Wikipedia style manual and medical article style manual
  • Writing better articles
• list of cleanup templates
• Wikipedia principles: medical reliable sources, neutral point of view

Subpages for personal use

• /Sandbox
• /Bickerstaff's_encephalitis
• /MSLP
• /POEMS_syndrome

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