"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

1 in 4 children experience maltreatment. Our meta-analysis on long-term implications for interoception: Emotional abuse is negatively related to interoceptive accuracy. Child maltreatment – most notably emotional maltreatment – is negatively correlated with body trust. A 🧵

I've put together a starter pack for the FND science community. Please repost to share the link and do let me know of folks I've missed so I can add them to the group. Thanks everyone 🙏 🧵 1/

Sojka P, Serranová T, Khalsa SS, Perez DL, Diez I. Altered Neural Processing of Interoception in Patients With Functional Neurological Disorder: A Task-Based fMRI Study. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2024 doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20240070 psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Westlin C, Guthrie AJ, Paredes-Echeverri S, et al. Machine learning classification of functional neurological disorder using structural brain MRI features. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2024-333499. jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl...

Jungilligens J, Perez DL. Predictive Processing and the Pathophysiology of Functional Neurological Disorder. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2024 May 17. doi: 10.1007/7854_2024_473. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Merkel on her recurring leg tremor episodes from a few years ago: "It's really interesting, that the mind truly has no power over it. It is only human, but also an astonishing observation for me."

Great work on how to measure dissociation👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wQ... A well-made educational film about functional tics in German.

going to create a starter pack for researchers studying in-group/out-group dynamics and leave about half the relevant people out of it

Maybe the amygdala is not angry or sad or afraid – it’s just misunderstood! “An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex” is online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @scanunit.bsky.social @haubensaklab.bsky.social @univie.ac.at [1/8]

I am looking for a postdoc to work with me! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/37... #neuroskyence #academicsky

Many patients with functional seizures report losing control of willful movements during episodes of heightened affective arousal, which might be related to dissociation - a breakdown in the metacognitive integration of mental functions.

QuantaMagazine Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...

New paper describing a #DICOM to #BIDS converter in #R. Great commitment from Niklas Wulms! I appreciate the incorporation of an image viewer for quick screening of the #neuroimaging datasets. Thanks for getting me involved! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

"Um ihre Solidarität mit Israel auszudrücken, hat die Berliner Regierung das Brandenburger Tor am Samstagabend in den israelischen Nationalfarben anstrahlen lassen. Zentral unter der Quadriga war ein Davidstern zu sehen." rbb24.de/content/rbb/r2…

New paper from our group! What happens to patients that are later diagnosed as having functional seizures when they present to the emergency room? We found: There clearly is room for improvement! jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl... @popkirov.bsky.social #neuroscience

Hello fellow emotion researchers! I just made a feed for all things related to Affective Science. Check it out! Current tag is #AffectSci bsky.app/profile/did:... @markrubin.bsky.social

What has happened in the research landscape on functional seizures since the introduction of video-EEG monitoring? -> Research on dissociative seizures: A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific landscape (Epilepsy Behav 2018) - doi.org/10.1016/j.ye... #neuroscience

What are the best pathways to correctly diagnosing functional seizures? Part II -> Diagnosing psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Video-EEG monitoring, suggestive seizure induction and diagnostic certainty (Epilepsy Behav 2017) - doi.org/10.1016/j.ye... #neuroscience

What are the best pathways to correctly diagnosing functional seizures? -> Suggestive seizure induction for inpatients with suspected psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (Epilepsia 2020) - doi.org/10.1111/epi.... #neuroscience

Is there a biological correlate of behavioral disinhibition in FS? -> Microstructural integrity of affective neurocircuitry in patients with dissociative seizures is associated with emotional task performance, illness severity and trauma history (Seizure 2021) - doi.org/10.1016/j.se... #neuroscience

Does affective arousal contribute to behavioral disinhibition (potentially at the onset of functional seizures (+ #interoception + SOA)? -> Impaired emotional and behavioural awareness and control in patients with dissociative seizures (Psychol Med 2020) - doi.org/10.1017/S003... #neuroscience

Do clinical features of functional seizures map onto gray matter changes in the brain, and if so - where? -> Cortical thickness in default mode network hubs correlates with clinical features of dissociative seizures (Epilepsy Behav 2022) - doi.org/10.1016/j.ye... #neuroscience

The grand overview on the state of the art when it comes to neuroimaging in FND -> Neuroimaging in Functional Neurological Disorder: State of the Field and Research Agenda (Neuroimage Clin 2021) - doi.org/10.1016/j.ni... #neuroscience

How often are prolonged functional seizures misdiagnosed as status epilepticus and what are the consequences? -> Misdiagnosis of prolonged psychogenic non-epileptic seizures as status epilepticus: epidemiology and associated risks (JNNP 2021) - doi.org/10.1136/jnnp... #neuroscience

How are trauma and symptom severity linked through gray matter profiles and gene expression? -> Linking gene expression patterns and brain morphometry to trauma and symptom severity in patients with functional seizures (Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2022) - doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... #neuroscience

The paper most dear to me: What is the role of emotion, affect, allostasis and interoception in functional neurological disorder? -> A new science of emotion: implications for functional neurological disorder (Brain 2022) - doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience

Now that things are starting to get real here on #neuroscience Bluesky - here's a roundup of some select papers on functional neurological disorder that I've been able to contribute to:

I whipped up a basic Shiny app (using the PubMedWordCloud R package) to generate word cloud summaries of any researcher based on their abstracts in PubMed. Here's mine! The app is available here: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu...

Every ethics committee in uni from: cookiescience.webcomic.ws/comics/693#c... #academic #neuroskyence #cognition #cogpsych #psyscisky #academicsky #stats #statsmeme

@jungilligens.bsky.social hello world?