Just renewed my @fndsociety.bsky.social membership! They've done a huge amount of work over the last few years to improve research, treatment, and education for folks with FND. And there's clearly more ahead. Check them out!

@fndsociety.bsky.social Advanced Course for the Assessment & Management of Functional Neurological Disorder is OPEN for registration & ON-DEMAND viewing of talks. Webinar on Nov 6th 9am EST @fndportal.bsky.social @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social @alancarson15.bsky.social www.fndsociety.org/fnd-educatio...

An important study (IMO) looking at social dynamics re: FND on Twitter. People w FND face continual attack by a variety of groups who dismiss our condition and experiences - ranging from abusive clinicians to other disabled people. It makes it even harder to exist in public with this dx.

Not sure we need word ‘may’- the rate of diagnostic increase is biologically implausible and speaks to diagnostic practice- probably previously under disgnosed now considerably over diagnosed

Pleased that "Continuum" the AAN journal asked for this article on the management of functional movement disorder - coauthored with @alancarson15.bsky.social Article paywalled but podcast is free. Some snippets in thread🧵 Article: continuum.aan.com/doi/full/10.... Podcast: x.com/ContinuumAAN....

This whole section really.

📢 Delighted to have Dr. Caoimhe McLoughlin speak at our first #FNDIreland Conference on 'The Role of Neuropsychiatry in FND' and share her research on Stigma in #FND which she completed under the supervision of @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social and @alancarson15.bsky.social. 💚🧡 @fndportal.bsky.social

It’s not “dismissing” someone to give them a diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder. Like all other conditions, it’s either 1. A correct dx for that person, or 2. not. When you say “dismissing as FND,” you reveal that you think there’s a hierarchy of disorders, some more legit than others

2 of last 3 sold out so when bookings go live later this year- get in

www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... No surprises here- but good to see confirmed- what many of us who followed the evidence have been saying

Alasdair has dedicated himself to this topic for last 25 years- ghis should be cracking

Great work by veronica the app is now available - Mementum by cogniss

Maybe they could pay their fair share of taxes instead?

What an amazing opportunity! Taught by the brilliant @vaughanbell.bsky.social and free for @bnpa.bsky.social members. BNPA is a wonderful society uniting psychiatrists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists and psychologists. Join today

academic.oup.com/brain/advanc.... This is interesting

Westminster keeps misdiagnosing why voters turn to Farage. Mimicry isn’t cure - it feeds decline. The real remedy is education, a better standard of living, and hope. Brexit sped up UK’s decline and left voters searching for easy targets to blame, aided by Reform/Tories/Labour.

It is slightly disappointing the tendancy in psychanalysis to a ‘creationist’ approach with all ideas starting with Freud but the basic principles of object relations theory has so much to offer to all medicsl encounter not just FND

📣Fantastic FND Society course on diagnostics, aetiology & Mx of functional seizures+ epilepsy 13-14 June online (or in person Boston USA!) 👌👌 @fndsociety.bsky.social @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social @alancarson15.bsky.social @mahyog.bsky.social @davidlewisperez.bsky.social @fndportal.bsky.social

This was rather good www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Clinical psychologists: The British Neuropsychiatry Association are running a free training day on 'Understanding Neuropsychiatric Problems for Clinical Psychologists'. Fri 4 July, London You just need to be a BNPA member to attend and you can join for £70 👇

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

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Survival in top wealth quartiles, Europe, higher than wealthiest Americans. Survival in wealthiest U.S. quartile similar to that in poorest quartile in Europe.

academic.oup.com/brain/advanc.... I have to confess to not being persuaded- comes down to how specific you believe these investigations to be. Clinicslly such cases look much more nociplastic to me

New drug for lower back pain could be ‘a gamechanger’. My money is on Dr Ellis’s comments

Thousands have sought second opinion after NHS hospitals adopted Martha’s rule, MPs hear- it woukd be good to see some hard data on efficacy of this- how often did it really change management and if it did, did that alter long term outcome. I ve no preconceptions but would benefit from proper study

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

@thelancet.bsky.social what fresh hell is this- went to log in via institutional access and told had to go to customer services to check some details then forwarded to other departments- long holds- why?

www.fletcherssolicitors.co.uk/medical-negl.... Personal injury teams getting involved may have more impact on situation than leng review- consent may be a gateway to litigation

Discounted Early Bird registration for the British Neuropsychiatry Association conference closes Thursday. It happens March 13-14 in London. We'd love to see you there bnpa.org.uk/agm/ Sleep engineering, TBI, FND treatment, impulse control disorders, and more. See the programme at the link above

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

Interesting conceptually but i wonder if in cases of functional tremor if the tremor is in fact the core treatment target- it s often absent with distraction anyway

No, COVID-19 vaccines aren’t causing immunosuppression. A preprint has been wildly misinterpreted. •No correction for prior COVID-19. •No assessment of T cell exhaustion. •No differences in CD4 T cells. •EBV reactivation wasn’t detected. Read my analysis: news.immunologic.org/p/no-covid-1...

inews.co.uk/news/how-rev.... Fabulous article on functional cognitive disorder

Sharing economic analysis paper led by #ChrisStephen in functional neurological disorder. FND inpatient & ED costs in adults & children rising steadily - $2 billion in 2019 - coupled with limited research funding. @albertoespay.bsky.social @fndsociety.bsky.social www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

Our 2025 annual conference is happening in London, March 13-14. Neuropsychiatry of sleep, FND treatment, impulsive control disorders, neuropsychiatry of TBI and much more. Sign up, it'll be great to see you there bnpa.org.uk/agm/

Delighted to learn about this: FND Aotearoa, the first FND patient group in Aotearoa / New Zealand! 🙌 www.fnda.nz/home

Worth thinking about implicit and explicit (motor) self-efficacy, and how both can be reinforced therapeutically.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... dizziness common after tbi every acute patient shoukd be screened for bppv but make sure youre also familiar with pppd in chronic situations

FNDPortal.org is updated to reflect that Bluesky is now my primary social media platform, and the account on X is no longer monitored. More substantive updates coming soon.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Can we predict which FND patients respond to treatment? Not really- my take- best to offer everyone a chance rather than make false assumptions

‘Strong reasonable doubt’ over Lucy Letby insulin convictions, experts say. Can’t help feeling it is unwise for potential expert witnesses to be doing media briefings in this way. These are arguments to be aired in court

To everyone who thinks private sector knowhoe will bring in efficiencies to healthcare