Patients with functional #neurological disorder exhibit frequent psychiatric and neurological comorbidities, worse functional outcomes, higher health care use, and increased mortality compared with multiple sclerosis. ja.ma/3Rvrq4N

“The heartbeat evoked potential and the prediction of functional seizure semiology” Exciting new work from @rokand.bsky.social @sarahgarf.bsky.social @mahyog.bsky.social and co-authors in Brain Communications (please forgive any missed tags here 🙏) academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Congrats Keishema and Vaughan and gang - excited to see what the community thinks of this! A pleasure to be a part of it too 😄

Vaughan Bell@vaughanbell.bsky.social · yesterday

New from us: We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop... A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New from us: We gathered psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, and individuals with lived experience to develop... A neuropsychiatry curriculum for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists: An e-Delphi study bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Journal of Neuropsychology | Wiley Online Library

Neuropsychiatric presentations are common across neurological and mental health services but they are often inadequately covered by core clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology training. Con....

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More amazing work by @rokberlot.bsky.social 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻

Rok Berlot@rokberlot.bsky.social · 7d ago

Many thanks to my brilliant co-authors from @kingsioppn.bsky.social and University Medical Centre Ljubljana: Ester Ipavic, Katharine Lynch-Kelly, Danish Hafeez, @timnicholson.bsky.social, Mark Edwards, and, in particular, Tom Pollak. Tom's commentary on the paper: www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-po...

All welcome to this today 1-2pm uk time - will be amazing 👌 See here for Teams link www.kcl.ac.uk/events/again... @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Against Mind-Blindness: Recognizing and Communicating with Diverse Intelligences | King's College London

Neuropsychiatry Meetings discuss exciting research and interesting cases relevant to neuropsychiatry and to promote cross-talk between psychiatry, neurology and psychology.

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PLEASE SIGN IF YOU CAN - My sister is an anthropology lecturer at Exeter University, they plan to slash the budget for social sciences, this represents an existential threat for the social sciences and will harm the student experience. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Brilliant 3 part BBC documentary on the mind blowing & tragic case of Megan Bhari that’s presented as a case of Factitious or Induced Illness (FII) = Munchausen’s by proxy = medical abuse It’s almost impossible to imagine that a parent could do this to their child www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What are the preferences of novel in silico and in vivo agents that aren't directly engineered toward a specific set of behaviors? An example, from the world of Lenia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia) - here's our #preprint on agnosiophobia (avoidance of the unknown): arxiv.org/abs/2605.30708

We are looking for volunteers with experience of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) presentations in A&E settings to contribute to a BPS study day on FND. If you are interested in getting involved, please submit your interest via the Microsoft Form: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

📣Small, but mighty, new paper: Electronic health record study of FND led by the brilliant @liviaasan.bsky.social 👌👌👏👏 Largest study to date of real world data on the basics of FND 👇

Livia Asan@liviaasan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

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!

Delighted to report our study on sensory symptoms has been published in @braincomms.bsky.social - @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Prof. Mark Edwards, Dr. Jan Coebergh, @roryhigginsphysio.bsky.social, @gnielsenphysio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Milestone for FND care in Germany: first guideline on functional motor disorder, published by German Neurol. Society. I contributed to comorbidities, pharmacotherapy & placebo/nocebo. Hope it's a valuable resource for clinicians & support people living with FND. register.awmf.org/de/leitlinie...

These two papers in Lancet Psychiatry about placebo/nocebo in practice and in trials are very worth reading. Be mindful about expectation in your patients/yourself, and critical even with RCTs. I hope reporting on placebo conditions, treatment expectations and blinding success improves steadily!!

Tim Nicholson@timnicholson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

First of 2 great @thelancetpsych.bsky.social articles on placebo/nocebo in psychiatry (& relevance to all of medicine) led by the brilliant @mattburkemd.bsky.social This one on harnessing placebo & mitigating nocebo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sign o the times

Take 5 minutes to view this video from teenager Molly's powerful speech on living with #FND to TD's and Senators in Leinster House on April 30th, 2026, which received a standing ovation. Share Molly's voice to change our healthcare system. 💚🧡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamW... @fndportal.bsky.social

Teenager Molly Gallagher's speech - living with Functional Neurological Disorder to TD's & Senators.

YouTube video by FND Ireland

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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

📢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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Not sure how well this one works outside the uk

a couple of men are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating sandwiches .

ALT: a couple of men are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating sandwiches .

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Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli

📅 Just less than two months from the 2026 FND Society Conference in Baltimore June 13th-16th - Click the link below to see all the conference highlights and get registered - In-person, virtual, and on-demand https://www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026

👏👏👏💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😂😂😂

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

The Onion@theonion.com · 4mo ago

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Good story - and reflects how long people with FND often have to wait to get diagnosed FND should be part of standard medical training in every country so doctors don’t miss this condition

go follow @news.abc.net.au@abc-news.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Patients with little-known neurological condition wait years for diagnosis: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-18/functional-neurological-disorder-awareness-diagnosis/106502794

Very gratified to see the European Academy of Neurology has endorsed the AAN guidelines for management of functional seizures. Hope this means an improved approach and standard of care for people w/ this condition in Europe - and of course much much more research needed www.aan.com/Guidelines/H...

When I have a new idea vs. When I have to finish a project

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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First of 2 great @thelancetpsych.bsky.social articles on placebo/nocebo in psychiatry (& relevance to all of medicine) led by the brilliant @mattburkemd.bsky.social This one on harnessing placebo & mitigating nocebo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Harnessing placebo effects and mitigating nocebo effects: implications for clinical practice in psychiatry and medicine

In psychiatry and medicine, there is a long history of framing placebo effects primarily as nuisance factors and focusing on how they should be minimi…

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🎙️Check out our most recent podcast. We spoke with Dr. Julia Doss, clinical psychologist & expert in PNES and FND, about her 20+ year career, pediatric vs adult differences, family roles, and treatment models. https://loom.ly/tQKnHaw