As we explore the idea that brain-body connection plays a role in mental health and psychiatry, let this null results on intersection be a warning: Not all fashionable ideas work out. Important work!

Interoceptive performance is unrelated to mental health symptoms in a large multi-domain psychophysical investigation - Nature Mental Health

In this large-scale study, Banellis and colleagues investigate the links between mental health symptoms and interoception by measuring cardiac and respiratory interoceptive sensitivity and relating th...

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Leah Banellis@leahbanellis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) cohort shows distinct comorbidities compared to epilepsy & multiple sclerosis groups. PMID:42113549, JAMA Neurol 2026, @JAMANeuro https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2026.1040 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Chronic Idiopathic Urinary Retention/ Fowlers syndrome is common in FND and vice versa. A new framework for non-surgical treatment, led by @IngridHoeritza1 & Sara McRae, is a step change toward reducing permanent urinary catheters and invasive surgery. zurl.co/LyaMB

From early diagnosis to diet – transforming IBD care means taking a truly multidisciplinary, integrated approach. This #WorldIBDDay, Fernando Magro calls for stronger, evidence-based action to reduce the burden across Europe. Discover ECCO’s consensus: https://bit.ly/4c89ox1

Session 5 of "What's New in Rare Disease?!" Part 2 starting now with super talk from Zané Lombard from University of Witwatersrand, South Africa talk about the need for genomic diagnostics in Africa and the work of the Africa DDD project. #GRD26

A wonderful evening at yesterday’s private view of Between Feeling and Unfeeling: Art and Anaesthesia at the Museum of Anaesthesia. To learn more, visit the museum or join our upcoming webinar, Art and the Anaesthetist: anaesthetists.org/Home/Educati... #AnSky

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | How Visual Cortices Develop; Dopamine Dynamics during Decision-Making https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/14/etwij46142026

Want to learn from a successful neuroscientist who's helped reveal the blurred boundaries between wake and sleep? Attend this upcoming Meet-the-Clinician-Expert webinar! Register now🔗: vist.ly/4xzaj #neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter

After #FNDAwareness, there are common questions among therapists and MDs: What do I say? What should we do during episodes? How do we support school participation and recovery? We created this pediatric FND diagnosis packet to help: canva.link/0k20pyusne3o... #Neurology #RehabMedicine #FND

New Diagnosis Patient Packet: April FND Awareness

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“… imagining an object reactivates some of the same neurons involved in seeing it in the first place, providing new insight into how mental imagery is produced in the brain.” #scicomm #neuroskyence www.sciencenews.org/article/seei... 🧪 🧠

Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social #neuroskyence #hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience

Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

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#eNeuro Blog | Reviewing Editor Adrien Peyrache highlights the work from Khouma et al., which explores a neuropeptide released by sleep-active neurons in the hypothalamus that promotes wakefulness by inhibiting histaminergic neurons. https://blog.eneuro.org/2026/03/editors_pick_peyrache

Are memories in your brain distributed or local? How did early experiments in the late 1940s address this? Join me this week with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the modern emerging picture of the brain. eagleman.com/podcast/141

A New Framework for Functional Neurological Disorder: When the Brain’s Confidence Falters A New Framework for Functional Neurological Disorder: When the Brain's Confidence Falters A new theoretical framework published in *Brain* reframes functional neurological disorder (FND) as a disorder of…

1/"The distinction between diseases of 'brain' and 'mind', between 'neurological' problems and 'psychological' or psychiatric ones is an unfortunate cultural inheritance the permeates society and medicine,

A while ago I gave a talk at the London Medical Society on “functional” vs “organic” illness (it was rough, I was nervous). Now Ben Stecher, an awesome Parkinson’s advocate-researcher, analyzes it in this lovely blog post to examine overlap of FND + PD Delighted! 🙏 tmrwedition.com/2026/03/02/t...

Rethinking FND in Parkinson's: Beyond the Organic Binary

The organic vs. functional binary fails Parkinson's patients. Discover why Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) require an embodiment framework to treat.

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Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature

fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

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Environmental context can shape how our brains function! 🌟New work🌟 led by all-stars @niaberrian.bsky.social and @monicarosenb.bsky.social shows that environmental exposures in youth are reflected in brain networks that keep our attention focused! 🧠🌲 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devpsy #neuroimaging

Nia B. @niaberrian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New preprint out! We show that the exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence—highlighting how environment and brain function have shared and unique associations with reported attention problems. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

On National Doctors’ Day, we honor Dr. Helen Bronté-Stewart, Stanford neurologist and movement disorders leader. Her work with closed-loop DBS and digital health tech is reshaping Parkinson’s care. #NationalDoctorsDay #Parkinsons #Neurology med.stanford.edu/bronte-stewa...

The future of movement disorders

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On National Doctors’ Day, we’re honoring Dr. Kathleen Poston, a trailblazing Stanford neurologist redefining Parkinson’s disease. Tune in to a recent podcast: youtu.be/HW7dJkSMFhY?... Or visit her lab website: med.stanford.edu/poston-lab.h... #NationalDoctorsDay #Parkinsons #Neurology

Redefining Parkinson's Disease | Kathleen Poston

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🎧 New Episode Alert! 🎧 Check out Episode 102 of the Stanford Medcast: "Inside the Epileptic Brain" with Dr. Juliet Knowles. Discover how myelin plasticity could transform epilepsy care! 👉 Listen here: med.stanford.edu/cme/stanford... #EpilepsyCare #StanfordMedcast

And now for something completely different… "Morning garden in Spring", 1930, Oil on canvas Peder Mørk Mønsted, Danish (1859 - 1941)

Call for abstracts for the Placebo, Hypnosis & Functional Disorders conference in Nancy (France), October 14–16, 2026 🚨 Beautiful location and fascinating talks/discussions about key scientific questions at the mind-body-society interface 💭🧠 Abstract deadline 27/04/26 www.phfd-conf.org/en/

Pleased to share our article reporting routine clinical outcomes of the South London & Maudsley specialist cognitive behavioural therapy service for #FND. Patients reported significant improvements in distress, functioning & cognitive-behavioural symptom responses www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | The effectiveness of specialist cognitive behavioural therapy for functional neurological disorder: a service evaluation

IntroductionFunctional neurological disorder (FND) is a common and disabling condition associated with high levels of functional impairment and psychological...

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This workbook is aimed at kids and teenagers but honestly I think it’s a really practical resource for anyone with FND. Highly recommend! www.amazon.ca/Reset-Rewire...

aeon.co/essays/why-y... I recently wrote this piece about why the body and not just the brain is important for thinking Theory paper developing these ideas and arguments more formally will follow up soon Watch this space 😎

📢 #FNDIreland Conference recordings on our YouTube channel. Our fifth presentation by our founder Eamon McPartlin provides an update on our work since we launched in April 2024. He also shares some of the findings from NAI Patient Survey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34sw... 💚🧡 @fndportal.bsky.social

Eamon McPartlin, FND Ireland Updates and NAI Patient Experience Survey Findings

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I was asked by @braincomms to highlight their FND special collection which welcomes clinical and neuroscience research on every aspect of the condition. A chance to reflect on how FND has moved from miscellaneous to mainstream academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

The Functional Neurological Disorder special collection in Brain Communications: bringing FND into the mainstream

Our Guest Editor, Jon Stone, introduces a special collection of articles focusing on functional neurological disorder.

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Stanley Spencer painted about a dozen landscapes in and around Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire during the early 1940s. The village, not far from Stroud, contains the remains of a Benedictine priory which lies at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment.

Very much agree with the points made here! I especially appreciate how apprehension re: FND often flips into inspiration when clinicians see the tangible good they can do

Jon Stone@jonstoneneuro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Reclaiming FND for Rehabilitation Medicine – new open access editorial Neurorehab colleague Phil Milburn-McNulty and I set out why Rehab Medicine is so well-suited to treating FND, why they historically haven’t and what can be done to change things. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...