Ahmad M. Nazzal, MD, PhD

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Other work

Publications

• AraBERT-CORAL for Fine Grained Arabic Readability (2025) — Arabic NLP / shared task.
• Reach and Grasp Deficits Following Damage to the Dorsal Pulvinar (2018)
• Modality Specific Neural Signals of Evidence Accumulation for Spatial Decisions (2016)

Preprints

• 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)

Editorial and educational work

• Neuroscience for Kids Activity Books
• A Systematic Review of Teaching and Learning in the Context of Arabic Diglossia (2025)

Books & Courses

• Overview of the German Medical Language Exam (Fachsprachprüfung) — preparation course for international medical graduates.
• 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)

Substack

Essays on medicine, AI, and language at nazzal.substack.com.

Talks & Interviews

• Doctors for Doctors: AI Literacy — Navigating the EU AI Act (2025)
• Delta Dialog (2024)
• Rabea Akram's Podcast (2021)

PhD thesis

• Visual and Auditory Perceptual Decision-Making in The Human Brain as Investigated by fMRI and Lesion Studies