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!!

Second article focuses on the critical issue of detecting/measuring & appraising placebo in trials Such a massively important (and complex/fascinating) issue in evidence based medicine that’s still so poorly understood www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

…and there’s this nice accompanying editorial on the 2 papers 👌 Bravo @mattburkemd.bsky.social 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @liviaasan.bsky.social @popkirov.bsky.social @susannahpick.bsky.social @davidlewisperez.bsky.social @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social

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...

Everyone is getting a diagnosis of ADHD these days Feature in @the-independent.com on our recent trial @uoftmedicine.bsky.social suggesting that nocebo effects (negative expectations) re ⬆️ awareness could be driving this trend. Nocebo education reversed it! www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home...

Rowan’s Law Day Clinical Update on Sport Concussion: Free webinar on September 24th at 12:00pm ET. 🔗: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social @parachute.ca @mattburkemd.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Inform and Do No Harm: A Novel Approach to Reduce Negative Effects of Mental Health Awareness My student Dasha Sandra tackled growing concerns about false self-diagnosis following awareness efforts and found a promising solution. Thread /1 osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper with @mattburkemd.bsky.social, @davidlewisperez.bsky.social: Somatic Symptom Disorder after concussion/mTBI was associated with worse symptoms, comorbidity, and disability. SSD may be a useful framework for conceptualizing poor outcome from this injury. journals.lww.com/headtraumare...

Outstanding #BrainMedicine conference led by #SaraMitchell & #SarahLevitt from the University of Toronto! Great to see momentum growing to erode silos & integrate neurologic, psychiatric, & rehabilitative perspectives for complex brain disorders. #SarahLidstone @mattburkemd.bsky.social

Very honoured to receive the 2025 AAN Norman Geschwind Prize for my research trying to better understand disorders and phenomena at the interfaces of Neurology and Psychiatry Very grateful to all my mentors and colleagues @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social @uoftmedicine.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

Standing room only for 2 hour symposium on functional neurological disorder (#FND) at the #AAN2025 meeting - with a focus on functional seizures, post concussive syndrome / functional cognitive disorder & pathophysiology. #BarbaraDworetzky @mattburkemd.bsky.social

Great intro to a promising session here at #nans2025 by @mattburkemd.bsky.social - do you know all the famous 🇨🇦 neuroscientists - Penfield, Milner, Hebb, Jasper and many more

Could having a TBI ever be paradoxically beneficial? We report a case of a patient with chronic refractory alcohol use disorder that went into remission following a TBI with a focal OFC hemorrhage 1/2 @commsmed.bsky.social @foxmdphd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

neurologyopen.bmj.com/content/7/1/... Very pleased to see this diagnostic aid for Functional cognitive disorders out. It needs further testing but i m feeling optimistic given the cumulative wisdom of the clinicians who kindly provided input into the development

Our new review looks at the evidence (or lack thereof) for identifying mTBI/concussion in post-acute polytrauma settings Challenges re: legitimately missing a mTBI (distracting injuries) with risk of overDx as Sx (e.g. headache, brain fog etc) are non-specific www.tandfonline.com/eprint/I7PSG...

Unbeknownst to me, my patient wrote about her struggles and recovery from a head injury triggering FND Great to see a full page spread in @theglobeandmail.com on a topic that needs more attention Her eloquent narrative is a perfect (and timely) complement to our recent BJSM piece. Article ⬇️

How common is FND? ‘Incidence and Prevalence of Functional Neurological Disorder: A systematic review’ – a new open access article in JNNP led by Sara Finkelstein with Clare Diamond, and @alancarson15.bsky.social jnnp.bmj.com/content/earl... 1/🧵

New to #bluesky and excited to share a new publication at the interface of my two main clinical interests in neuropsychiatry. "New Framework for the Continuum of Concussion and Functional Neurological Disorder" with @silverberglab.bsky.social in BJSM. Thread below 🧵 bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...