To lump or to split? That is the question. Here’s one study in favor of “lump”!

Our new article highlights the presence and possible impact of cognitive symptoms in people with functional seizures or motor symptoms, also showing specific performance difficulties in attention and set-shifting in these #FND subgroups. Grateful to the team and participants🙏 doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Interesting research into the prevalence and persistence of sensory symptoms in those living with motor FND compared to those living with stroke. Well done @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Prof. Mark Edwards, Dr. Jan Coebergh, @roryhigginsphysio.bsky.social, @gnielsenphysio.bsky.social. #FND #Stroke

Delighted to share our paper in @braincomms.bsky.social: Clinical and demographic associations of recorded feigning in functional neurological disorder academic.oup.com/braincomms/a... Using a large international EHR database, we examined how often, and to whom, feigning codes are applied in FND.

Professor Jernej Ule @ulelab.bsky.social, School of Neuroscience and @crick.ac.uk, teamed up with molecular biology and cancer experts to use his expertise on mRNA 🧬 to understand how to turn our immune system 🤧 on and off. 🔗 Read more: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/a-balan...

This is great - a really nice overview of recent FND network studies, and a friendly introduction to predictive processing theory in FND 🙌

New-onset FND appears more likely after COVID-19 than other respiratory tract infections. Both the severity of the triggering illness and pre-existing individual vulnerability may contribute to the development of FND. 📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FND @ean.org #WileyNeuro

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...

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/...

Does COVID-19 increase the risk of FND? Find out in our paper, now published in the @europeanjournalofneurology.ean.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Using EHR data from >2.7 million COVID-19 cases, we estimated the risk of new-onset FND within six months following infection.

Resolving the Biomarker-Clinical “Mismatch” in Alzheimer's Disease www.linkedin.com/pulse/resolv...

📢 December issue now online featuring #asthma, #pneumonia, #sepsis, #epilepsy, #HIV, #PCOS, #depression, #UTI, and much more with our editorial on the future of prostate cancer screening …all available #free #OpenAccess❗️ Read more here: www.thelancet.com/issue/S2589-... Attribution: Getty #MedSky

While FND symptoms remain stable for most women during pregnancy, a subgroup experiences significant changes or new onset. 📚 Read the article “The Impact of Pregnancy on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)” by Lehn et al. now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ean.org #WileyNeuro

Did the late Mark Hallett crack the code underpinning the physiology of free will? Free will is the brain’s constructed awareness that we are choosing our actions even though the brain initiates them before we consciously know it. Mark Hallett was instrumental in describing how it all works.

Four yrs in the making, @greenjournal.bsky.social Practice Guideline Executive Summary on the Management of Functional Seizures. First @aanmember.bsky.social published guideline on any #FND variant. Brilliantly led by #BenTolchin. @fndportal.bsky.social www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

Psychiatric conditions show high comorbidity & genetic overlap, challenging diagnostic boundaries. @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social et al applied cutting-edge statistical & functional genomics to 14 childhood- & adult-onset disorders (>1M cases) towards neurobiologically valid mental health nosology.👇🧪

Final version is out: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEoa5bD-s... "Neural cellular automata: Applications to biology and beyond classical AI" @bhartl.bsky.social Léo Pio-Lopez

Excited to share our new paper in @eclinicalmed.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... In this retrospective cohort study, we examined 147,595 individuals with FND. We investigated the prevalence of adverse life events nd psychosocial stressors, and how these relate to FND presentations.

To commemorate the bicentenary of Jean-Martin Charcot's life. Without him Neurology would be a different speciality. @uclqsion.bsky.social @brain1878.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Many neurological and mental health conditions may persist because homeostasis can lock the brain and body in stable patterns that are hard to shift. Have you tried switching it off and on again? osf.io/preprints/ps... Our new preprint explores the idea of a therapeutic reset.

A fantastic comprehensive review article w/ everything you need to know about Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Johnson and Williams share that idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus is a common, frequently missed and potentially reversible neurologic condition in older adults. @nejm.org

@HarvardMedicine have done a great job with this article on FND, focused on the contribution of colleagues working there, including Barbara Dworetzky, David Perez and alumnus Mark Hallett. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/fun...

📣 Abstract submissions open Wednesday, Dec 3! Submit your work for the 6th International Conference on Functional Neurological Disorder — June 13–16, 2026 in Baltimore. 🗓 Deadline: Feb 11, 2026 – 11:59 PM PST Details: www.fndsociety.org/biennial-meeting/2026/abstract 🌍 Please help spread the word!

How best to honor a giant and celebrate the late Mark Hallett’s legacy (1943-2025)? One way is for us to share his papers and teaching. This TMS Primer he wrote continues to be a big hit for all generations. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

💪 Popkirov reports in that reduced grip strength reflects altered higher-order motor control, challenging its value as a biomarker of peripheral dysfunction. 📚 Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Neurology #MECFS @ean.org #WileyNeuro