User:PaulWicks

I am a neuropsychologist and Digital health nerd. I trained in ALS and Parkinson's disease at the Institute of Psychiatry in London where I took up an interest in moderating online health communities (and editing Wikipedia!). For 13 years I led research and development at PatientsLikeMe. I am currently an independent consultant in digital health working with a range of clients in applied AI, digital therapeutics, and decentralized clinical trials. My areas of expertise are ALS, clinical trials, digital therapeutics and the use of the internet for the benefit of people with chronic health conditions.

I have written two brief scientific communications around Wikipedia. One with Vaughan about how wikipedia articles on specialist medical topics are often written in part and edited by experts (or at least, qualified people) in that field, and the second about the phenomenon of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge including use of Wikipedia page view statistics as a proxy of how the fad spurred interest in learning more about the disease.

Pages I created:
 * AOBiome
 * John_B._Heywood_(engineer)
 * Seeding trial
 * Dyskinesia
 * Labile affect
 * Major Depression Inventory
 * Motor Neurone Disease Association
 * Non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease
 * Parkinson's disease mimics
 * Self-referential encoding

Pages I nominated for good article status:
 * Striatonigral degeneration
 * The Painted ManALS Affected neurons and muscles.png
 * Heparin

Pages I worked on to get good article status:
 * ALS
 * Beck Depression Inventory

Pictures I contributed
 * My brain!