For the 2010 UK College of Medicine Lampoons, I helped create this parody of Ke$ha’s Tik Tok, adapted for the med student life here. For the uninitiated, Lampoons is an annual tradition where we medical students get to poke a bit of fun at our professors, and for the most part, they enjoy helping us poke fun at them too!

We did the entire thing in under a week, with all of the editing done within 36 hours of the lampoon last night. Apparently the fourth years had done theirs over the course of an entire year, though, and had made a fairly good sized movie out of it. It made our four minute sketch look kind of… well, puny. At least I’ll have a goal to top next year!

And without further ado… the video!

We’re covering memory and plasticity today in Neuro, and I was reminded of this article by Oliver Sacks about a man named Clive Wearing. This is a really fascinating article from the New Yorker. Clive Wearing’s case is particularly interesting because he had developed both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, and he frequently “re-awakens” to his own existence. Yet, through all of his amnesia, he still is able to conduct a choir and play the piano and remember his love for his wife.

A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss: The New Yorker