Ali Christy, MD, PhD

Also making stuff accessible generally makes it more usable for everyone even outside these three situations

I'd probably play a card like this one, or another card with Reconfigure

Bunny-sitting again ❤️

My 13 yo son and I are apparently writing a scientific paper titled "Why Did 'The Gambler' Die on a Train: Causes of Sudden Death in Chatty Whiskey-Drinking Men"

I really like the "before" picture - like, if you've never seen a guinea pig before, you might think the second picture is just what they normally look like

This is a 1858 paper on the work of Brown-Séquard. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
The 14 page paper covers complex concepts of neuroanatomy.
The only full-page figure is a guinea pig, having a seizure.
I am so intrigued by the editorial choices made here.

Oh yeah, he was totally bonkers. Also Brown-Sequard syndrome was discovered in vivisected animals.

Exciting opportunity for child neurology professionals! Submit your abstracts for the 55th CNS Annual Meeting, Oct 14-17, 2026, in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and contribute to a leading scientific program.

Deadline: April 26, 11:59 PM PST. https://ow.ly/PMzn50Yo9BF

“In her obituary, her mentee, Catherine Veil, says that [Marcelle Lapicque] fought against the prejudices of her time … it may be that the prejudices included race and not just sexism,” says @oligoclonalband.medsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/history-of-n...

Watch this beautiful video and tribute to Marcelle Lapicque for #BlackHistoryMonth! ❤️

😂 yes, this is true here too. ✨💖✨

YES I love that. Hopefully a future pediatrician :)

The winner - ofc - is pairs figure skating.

So now on Monday we all have to dress like figure skaters. At the peds specialty clinic.
Anyone dressed inappropriately (read: sans sparkle) will be turned away at the door.
This is #whypediatrics

MONSTERS

...oh no, would you call this March Sadness?

(Do you know what else was voted out in the first round? CURLING. Curling lost to speed skating.

I am learning a lot of things about the people I work with and they are not all good things.)

Current peds specialty office poll: Which Winter Olympic sport would you most want to compete in?

We lost the biathlon in the FIRST ROUND and my heart just hasn't been in it. If I can't ski while shooting things (in an imaginary universe where I could do these things) - then why even bother.

So, uh - this is why @zachlondon.bsky.social and I need new game-developing friends (you).

If you've never played the games that this post is based on, that's ok! We like all types of games: big, small, digital, playground.
Read more about GANGLIA here!
neurdgames.com/ganglia 🧠/🧠

This is Gloomhaven with the word Brain on it. And also a variety of little neurology Easter eggs for fun. Gives you something to look at while your friend sets up the game, which will take 4 months, minimum.

Brainhaven - this is the one you've been waiting for: the game that will sit on your table for the next 10 years, while your family members plead for you to just clean it up already and you try to find friends as excited about neurology-related role-playing adventures as you. 4/

Root: A Game of Bundles of Spinal Cord Nerves. The little mischievous forest animals have neurology things.

Ok, this is an obvious one: you're trying to take over the nerve bundles of the spinal cord, but the rules are totally different depending on which kind of neurologist specialist you are.

Like neurology, it's really complicated, but once you figure out the rules it'll be fun. 3/

Ticket to Ride -> Ticket to Formaldehyde. I had a lot of options here. Bench to Bedside? Ticket to Bromide? Ticket to WEBINO? I don't know, if you hate it you're welcome to make your own.

Keeping with neuropathology, it's Ticket to Formaldehyde: the smelliest route-building game you've ever played!

Place actual body parts on the board to connect the cortex to the brainstem to the neuromuscular junction to the muscle - and make real connections along the way. 2/

It's the Settlers of Catan. But I put stuff on the front to make it look like it says the Oligodendrocytes of Cajal. It's supposed to be funny.

First: collect resources, construct a pathology lab, and carefully stain brain slices with silver nitrate, analyze and draw them, creating a theory of neuronal interaction to win the Nobel Prize by 1906 with the Oligodendrocytes of Cajal! 2/

A Neurology Game-Making Gang! Apply to join the Global Alliance of Neurology Game-Based Learning Innovators and Academics (GANGLIA)!

Today is a special day - the day I persuade you to apply for GANGLIA, a new neurology-education game-development workshop, by "accidentally" leaking the games @zachlondon.bsky.social and I are planning for this year
neurdgames.com/ganglia 1/

What I'm committed to is the amazingness of Valentine Mott, "patron saint" of Valentine's Day ❤️

Art about Valentine Mott - zoom in, it's tiny writing!!!

This is of course why we celebrate the great Valentine Mott - Father of American Surgery, tie-er of the innominate artery, innoculator of rabies - on February 14th.
Go forth and be full of love. ❤️/❤️

Weird descriptions from Mott's eulogy

Q: Tell me more about Dr. Mott, and make it weird.
A: That's not a question, but OK.
His physical organs were symmetrical and perfect. Even his liver. His lungs were symmetric. His own heart was also perfectly symmetric, shaped like this: ❤️(you see where I'm going here) 9/❤️

A picture of a young sepia toned Mott, looks-maxxing

Q: Wasn't Valentine's Day named after St. Valentine?
A: No, Valentine Mott has never been beatified or sainted.
He is however credited with having performed at least 8 original surgical procedures, so maybe he should be.
Write your Pope to rectify this now. surgjournal.com/article/0039-6… 8/❤️

Mott was not above promotional shilling of the Syrup of Sarsaparilla. Well, who is?
This is why we give each other sweet treats and candies on this special day. 7/❤️

Also a big deal: vaccination against rabies.
If you fall madly in love with someone this Valentine's Day, this could be why. 6/❤️

Why do we associate Valentine's Day with love and affairs of the heart?
When Mott was only 33 years old, he tied the innominate artery of the heart. The patient died a month later, but still. It was 1818. It was a big deal. 5/❤️