I am a physician and neuroscientist with a strong interest in artificial intelligence.
Peer Reviewed Publications
- Scan-rescan Reliability Assessment of Brain Volumetric Analysis Across Scanners and Software Solutions Scientific Reports (Nature, 2025).
- Reach and Grasp Deficits Following Damage to the Dorsal Pulvinar Cortex (2018).
- AraBERT-CORAL for Fine Grained Arabic Readability ACL Arabic NLP / shared task (2025)
- Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, and Trust Medical Writing (2023).
Preprints
- Medical LLM Metacognition Is Multidimensional: A MetaMedQA Reanalysis of Confidence, Missing-Answer Recognition, and Unknown-Answer Detection (2026)
- Large Language Models Show Metacognitive Sensitivity in Medical Reasoning (2026)
- Seeing Without Knowing: Dissociating Evidence, Bias, and Confidence in Artificial Spatial Reasoning (2026)
- The Reliability and Validity of Reading Diagnostic Tool (SARD) (2025)
- A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence in Medicine (2025)
- Comparative Evaluation of ChatGPT-4o and DeepSeek-R1 for Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Triage Classification (2025)
- Modality Specific Neural Signals of Evidence Accumulation for Spatial Decisions (2016)
Editorial and educational work
Talks & Interviews
- Artificial Intelligence in Neurology: Evidence, Pitfalls, and Clinical Readiness — invited talk, German Society of Neurology (DGN) Annual Meeting 2025.
- Doctors for Doctors: AI Literacy — Navigating the EU AI Act (2025)
- Delta Dialog (2024)
- Rabea Akram's Podcast (2021)
Books & Courses
- From Doctor to Writer: A Guide to Becoming a Successful Medical Writer — a practical guide for physicians transitioning into medical writing.
- Let's Build a Brain Bleeding AI Detector From Scratch — step-by-step clinical neural network tutorial.
- ChatGPT for Medical Doctors
- The Neural Basis of Language Acquisition (in Arabic)
- Clinical AI Academy: AI Literacy for Healthcare Professionals — 8-module certificate course for clinicians. CME-aligned, EU AI Act compliant, no coding required.
Substack
Essays on medicine, AI, and language at nazzal.substack.com.