User:PaulWicks

About me

This user is proud to be British.

PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Neuropsychology.

This user is a psychologist.

This user is an academic.

This user is a scientist.

This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that he has been paid by PatientsLikeMe, Ada Health for some of his contributions to

• PatientsLikeMe
• Ada Health.

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.

My brain!

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

• Striatonigral degeneration
• The Painted Man

  

  A diagram I made to illustrate the effects of ALS

Pages I nominated for good article status:

• Heparin

Pages I worked on to get good article status:

• ALS
• Beck Depression Inventory

Pictures I contributed

• My brain! [1]

		The Resilient Barnstar
		I just wanted to give a barnstar for being such a pleasure to work with. I'm been pretty critical of the Beck Depression Inventory article, but you've always been cheerful, and just get pecking away at making the article better. Kudos! Esprit15d (talk ¤ contribs) 14:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your hard work on the Beck Depression Inventory article Cshay 06:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

		The E=mc² Barnstar
		Awarded for excellent contributions to neuropsychology topics and tireless efforts to pass on material to established experts - Vaughan 10:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)