2025 @braincomms.bsky.social paper by Westlin et al is being featured in a @neuro-psychiatry.bsky.social & Global Neuropsychiatry Group journal club. See below. Delineating network integration & segregation in the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

📅FNDS is pleased to highlight the Placebo, Hypnosis, and Functional Disorders Conference 2026 (Nancy, France, Oct 14-16), a meeting dedicated to advancing the understanding between mind, body, and society. Additional information on the conference website : https://loom.ly/GdE5eEo

🎙️New FNDS Podcast: FNDS Conference 2026 🔦 Highlights and favorite moments from our guests 🔗 to episode: https://loom.ly/AM9PHEE 🔗 for Request for FCD Treatment Materials: https://loom.ly/ovejf8Q 🔗 for Classification Committee Information Page and to provide feedback: https://loom.ly/KnEeFpo

📢 Call for Manuscripts The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation is seeking original research for a special section on Functional Neurological Disorder After Head Trauma 📅 Synopsis deadline: Nov. 1, 2026 👓See the infographic below for all of the details and how to submit https://loom.ly/wYKLEso

Education Research: Case-Based and Near-Peer Teaching on Functional Neurologic Disorder in the Neurology Clerkship | Neurology Education. www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

Education Research: Case-Based and Near-Peer Teaching on Functional Neurologic Disorder in the Neurology Clerkship | Neurology Education

Background and ObjectivesUndergraduate medical education on functional neurologic disorders (FNDs) is limited and misconceptions regarding the diagnosis of FND are common, negatively affecting medical...

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"Mark Hallett and the renaissance of functional neurological disorder" - a tribute to the man and a look back at the evolution of FND over the last three decades. zurl.co/hNvxy Thanks @JankovicJoseph for inviting this for a special issue of "Clinical Parkinsonism"

🛬 We hope everyone had safe travels home after the FND Society Conference Baltimore 2026! Thank you again to all of our speakers, attendees, poster presenters, board members, and Robert and Megan for making a successful and enjoyable conference! We look forward to seeing everyone in Prague in 2028!

By far the most important takeaway from Scotland at the World Cup is not our poor performance but the worldwide cultural impact of the Tartan Army. Indeed, to see the English-created tropes and stereotypes obliterated forever has been beyond joyous. So to England, WM and the BBC, GIRFUY.

Functional Visual Loss - a new paper in "Eye" led by Neil Ramsay Full text here - zurl.co/lwbKQ ☑️ 1st systematic synthesis of epidemiology, prognosis and treatment ☑️ Near absence of treatment studies ☑️ Comorbid eye pathology/ trauma and headache common

I'm honoured to be taking over as President of the FND Society from Barbara Dworetzky for 2026-2028. I'll be posting on multiple channels to ☑️ Raise awareness of FND and the fndsociety.org ☑️ FND research and news ☑️ Post new research from our Edinburgh group

Letter to the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, making a case that the future DSM should have an independent domain of psychological factors alongside social context, candidate biomarkers, and transdiagnostic features. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

I'm excited to share our new paper published today in JAMA Psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

One of the many wonderful aspects about the 6th International FND Society @fndsociety.bsky.social is connecting with new & old friends from around the globe - an absolute delight and honor to meet Professor Masahiro Sonoo from Japan [characterized the hip abductor sign].

The 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder (@FNDSociety) has been [and continues to be] a smashing success. The latest clinical insights, cutting edge science, & cross talk with other areas of neuroscience & clinical interest all covered.

FNDS Members: The Classification Committee of the Society has prepared a draft of diagnostic criteria for FND and the F/DS subtype. Click the link below for explanation of the committee and process: https://loom.ly/KnEeFpo Click below to fill out the feedback form: https://loom.ly/Z9An_Jc

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👏It was a great first day of the FNDS Conference Baltimore 2026! Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for your great work. Enjoy some photos below! 📷

📅There is still time to register for the FNDS Conference in Baltimore June 13th through the 16th! In-person and virtual registration are available at the discounted price through 5/27/2026. Click the link below to register. 🖱️ https://loom.ly/Bcb_6hw

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📅 The FNDS conference in Baltimore is one week away! There is still time to register for in-person and virtual attendance. Click on the link below for all the details: 🖱️https://loom.ly/Gs3r2cI

Join the Connectome 2.0 Dissemination Workshop on June 3, 2026, 9 AM-4 PM EST at the MGH Martinos Center. Learn about ultra-high gradient MRI, diffusion MRI, connectivity, and microstructural imaging using the Connectome 2.0 scanner. Program details: connectome2.martinos.org/2026-workshop/

We looked at a global cohort of >145,000 patients with a record of FND in the last 30 ys in TriNetX: confirmed frequent comorbidities and outcomes often worse than in MS. Read in JAMA Neurology: tinyurl.com/yc4wfyaj Open access to the accepted manuscript: osf.io/rwtnp @fndsociety.bsky.social

Comorbidities and Outcomes in People with Functional Neurological Disorder

This cohort study compared the prevalence of neurological comorbidities among people with functional neurological disorder versus those with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.

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Sharing NeuroImage: Clinical issue on #FND. Includes 12 articles [11 original research papers]. Authors from Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Norway, Canada, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, & the US. Editorial by #SelmaAybek, #KasiaKozlowska & I below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just over 4 weeks left until the @FNDSociety 2026 Baltimore meeting! zurl.co/qqGFg If your budget can stretch, PLEASE consider booking the conference hotel. zurl.co/SDhZS Doing so will help make the meeting a financial success. Thank you!

📢 FNDS Members be on the lookout for the April Newsletter coming to your inbox today April 30th to stay up to date on everything happening including conference details, recent podcasts and journal club, and so much more. You can also check it out on the website here: https://loom.ly/MaBStv4

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📢 We are one month away from the FNDS Conference in Baltimore June 13th-16th ⏳There is still time to register (through May 27th before fees increase) and book your hotel (through May 15th) 🖱️Click on the link below to find all the details and register https://loom.ly/Gs3r2cI

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David L Perez MD, MMSc@davidlewisperez.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sharing new @neuroimageeic.bsky.social study led by #CristinaBleier probing relationships between resting-state functional connectivity & resting cardiac autonomic metrics (HR, HRV). Collaboration with #KarenQuigley. Check it out! @mgbresearch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📄Recent Research Highlight 📖Functional Neurological Disorder: State-of-the-Art Advances Published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences https://loom.ly/Qzhao3s

Sharing new @neuroimageeic.bsky.social study led by #CristinaBleier probing relationships between resting-state functional connectivity & resting cardiac autonomic metrics (HR, HRV). Collaboration with #KarenQuigley. Check it out! @mgbresearch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great interview with @davidlewisperez.bsky.social, a neurologist and psychiatrist. As Dr Perez says 'Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is no longer a medical mystery'. 💚🧡 #FND #FunctionalNeurologicalDisorder

Functional Neurological Disorder Society@fndsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢Check out this recent interview with Dr. David Perez and NPR about a musician with FND. https://loom.ly/RKqGKSs

📢Check out this recent interview with Dr. David Perez and NPR about a musician with FND. https://loom.ly/RKqGKSs

Her medical condition stumped doctors for years. Now, she has answers : Short Wave

One morning, Kyla Madonna Kenney woke up and her world was turned upside down: The room was spinning, she had a splitting migraine and one side of her body was shaking. Her tremors and migraine lasted for days. And for years afterwards, doctors would ask her: Did anything upset you recently? Are you stressed? Have you talked to a therapist about your anxiety? She underwent surgeries and took medications that were, in hindsight, unnecessary. It wasn’t until seeing Dr. David Perez, a neurologis...

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Pleased to see this out ! In it we propose that the nature or semiology of functional/dissociative seizures may not be random. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...