@popkirov.bsky.social delivers yet another fantastic instructive clinical overview on FND at the @dgn-ev.bsky.social conference (second largest national neurologists' society in the world). Packed audience, most attendees of the whole event. Amazing

Next up, a symposium on therapeutic expectations featured some other CRC members, @liviaasan.bsky.social, Justine Schmidt and Regine Klinger! As you can see, the room was packed! 🤩

We are so proud that both first prizes of the "Förderpreis für Schmerzforschung" 2025 go to members of the CRC! 🤩 For the basic research category, we congratulate @liviaasan.bsky.social & Angelika Kunkel with their work on the role of dopamine in #treatmentexpectation! 💊

I'm glad to share our new retrospective cohort study in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in hyperemesis gravidarum www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In psychotherapy, treatment expectations matter. But even more powerful? ➡️ How they change over time. Our new paper shows that updating expectations during psychotherapy for MDD predicts depression outcomes. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WRBWU... #depression #psychotherapy #beliefupdating

@8minutesold.bsky.social and others - cool project - and check our the page! Maybe a cool Sci Fi story from #cosmicchoreographies?!

SIPS snippet #4: It's so important to study patients directly to understand pain. So far, patient data seem to challenge the bayesian integration principles in pain. But we need a clearer picture - just as the work from Eleonora Camerone is striving to do! #SIPSplacebo2025 @sipsplacebo.bsky.social

SIPS snippet #3: Excited that we have people with lived experience at this conference @sipsplacebo.bsky.social The patient advisory board from Germany @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social has a poster today (Tues), no 88! Everyone at #SIPSplacebo2025 go check it out

SIPS snippet #2: Mirta Fiorio talking at #SIPSplacebo2025 about placebo mechanisms in motor system - important topic in neurology! And: Expectation & placebo/nocebo mechanisms are highly relevant in functional neurol. disorder - glad that @sipsplacebo.bsky.social is picking this up!

SIPS snippet #1: Ulrike Bingel from our @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social talking in the first plenary session of the SIPS conference in beautiful Krakow, presenting our work - no effect of dopamine pharmacomodulation on experimental placebo hypoalgesia. #SIPSplacebo2025

One Saturday afternoon, we started with @winstontan.bsky.social and @liviaasan.bsky.social presenting the new SIPS ECR network. 🙌 Afterwards, @rimamrahal.bsky.social gave a fantastic keynote on #openscience and #registeredreports. ☝️ Of course, socializing also happened in the evening! ✨

Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social‬, @susannahpick.bsky.social‬, ‪@sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social‬. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI

As many of you know, I’ve been fascinated by brain attractor dynamics lately. Thrilled to share a new preprint on their link to orthogonal neural representations, co-authored with Karl Friston: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749 - with implications for both neuroscience & AI! First in a series - stay tuned!

🧠 Study exploring new FND treatment! We’re exploring patient views on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) for #FND rehab. ✅ 18+ ✅ Diagnosed w/ motor FND (e.g. weakness, tremor) 📝 10-min survey and educational video: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... 📎 Poster below #FNDresearch #BCI

✨ Best team ever!!! ✨ The Bingellab is one of 24 selected best research environments in Germany! ⭐ Thanks to our postdocs @liviaasan.bsky.social and @belkisezgiarikan.bsky.social for representing us in Berlin! ❤️

🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇

🎉🥳 New article in BRAT: Prior research on belief updating, including my own work, has neglected characteristics of the person who provides new information. Here, we systematically manipulated the person's behaviour and examined its effect on belief updating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Functional neurological disorder (#FND) remains a research orphan at NIH. FND is among the costliest and least funded sources of neurological disability (see graph). The latest NIH review cycle was no exception: zero FND-based grants were funded. www.neurology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The @zeit.de wrote a really nice (German) article about our new @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social paper: www.zeit.de/2025/20/plac...

NEW FND FILM !- 'Recognising Functional Seizures'🎥 neurosymptoms.org/en/media/fnd... This 7-minute film was designed to help doctors and other health professionals, especially in emergency medical settings, learn about functional seizures and how to tell them apart from epileptic seizures. 1/

Great input from a great webinar! Many implications for funct. sens. and motor symptoms. Sensory processing relies on feedforward modeling of sensory consequences of own actions. Many things could go wrong here & produce prediction errors as basis for aberrant sensations or invol. movements.

We're looking for a PhD student in Essen! The project (A11): Effects of sickness symptom expectations and dynamics in an experimental model of inflammation-induced sickness Job ad: 🇩🇪 treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo... 🇬🇧 treatment-expectation.de/en/projects-... Please share widely!

This should chill everyone in this country to the bone. All she did was write an OpEd the administration didn’t like. This is fascistic suppression of free speech.

Today is #FND awareness day! I was lucky to learn a lot from people with FND and leading scientists within the last six months here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social. If you don't know about FND - here's a great read!

We’re doing a lot of cool #nitrousoxide research #KCL to better understand the #neural basis of #perception! We started an instagram account, please give it a follow! We’ll follow back other studies 🤓 www.instagram.com/kcln2ostudy?...

Kim Hearne now talking about her lived experience of functional neurological disorder #bnpa2025

Our new review in JAMA Psychiatry: "Expectancy Effects, Failure of Blinding Integrity, and Placebo Response in Trials of Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Thanks to co-first author Guil Fusetto-Veronesi; and to Samuele Cortese, David Baldwin, Matt Garner 🧵👇

Great brand new metaanalysis on experimental nocebo effects and what factors modulate them - By @madelinestein.bsky.social in the lab of @devinterhune.bsky.social. @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social @laurenatlas.bsky.social @winstontan.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social @bencolagiuri.bsky.social

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

🧠 Help Us Understand Pain Perception in FND! 🧠 Looking for volunteers with & without #FND for a study in London @kingsioppn.bsky.social. Single lab visit testing pain perception with electrical stimulation. Interested? Please message me: [email protected] ✉️ Thanks for sharing!

Great to see this out! “Similar to other functional disorders, the experience of abnormal cognition from an acute pathophysiological event can act as powerful precipitating factors for functional cognitive disorder.”

Are you an #ECR interested in #placebo, #nocebo, #suggestion, etc. - consider attending what looks to be an excellent summer school just prior to SIPS: sips2025.eu/preconferenc...

Who is joining us at this year's SIPS conference in Krakow? 🌈 Website: sips2025.eu We are again organising an ECR summer school prior to the conference and you can still register until 1.3. at sips2025.eu/preconferenc... You can also submit a science slam (submission will again open March 1st)! 🤩

First neuropsychiatry journal club - discussion of functional movement disorder as potential Parkinson prodrome. Do join :) #neuropsychiatry #Parkinson #functionalneurologicaldisorder

Interesting study in @elife.bsky.social by Onysk et al. supporting bayesian integration of expectations to shape pain perception. Didn't use cues & conditioning, but statistical learning. Also cool direct measure of confidence in perception & predictions. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Proud to report that you can now preorder the second edition of my book on FND in German: www.amazon.de/Funktionelle...

Lovely/comprehensive review of metacognition and functional neurological disorder; a condition that demands a metacognitive interpretation: doi.org/10.1093/brai... The emerging picture aligns with findings in psychopathology more broadly—metacognitive performance is often equivalent to controls.

Cool new paper in #PAIN by Camerone et al. on the role of explicit (metacognitive) #treatmentexpectations and their precision in pain. No bayesian modeling of priors, still I think a nice and straightforward approach to test principles of #bayesian integration. journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...

Have updated this neuropsychiatry starter pack - let me know good accounts to add! go.bsky.app/VH9yDTA

Think of your neuroscience service- I ll bet you have specialist services for common disorders; headache, stroke, epilepsy, PD, MS, ALS- is there a common disorder missing and without dedicated services?

Honored to talk #nocebo & #expectation at this exciting symposium @kingsioppn.bsky.social. Looking forward to discussing mechanisms of #suggestion and #belief & consequences for health care with great minds & experts in this field!

Excited about the next SIPS conference on all things #placebo and #nocebo in Krakow! For the second time, there will also be a (free!) summer school for Early Career Researchers on the two days before the conference. Be an early butterfly and register soon! @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social

Angela Merkel über ihre Zitteranfälle: Gekürzt: „hatte zu tun mit dieser Anspannung. Der Körper hat vorweggenommen, du musst nicht mehr ewig durchhalten. Das ist schon sehr interessant, dass der Kopf darüber keine Macht hat. Das ist menschlich, aber eine auch erstaunliche Beobachtung gewesen.“

We are proud of this piece related to our science communication project! 🤩 We present a teaching and learning concept addressing placebo and nocebo effects in competency-based communication training👩‍⚕️ The paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39415814/ The project: treatment-expectation.de/projekte-peo...

Biological Pcychiatry Allostatic Interoceptive Overload Across Psychiatric and Neurological Conditions www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

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

The issue begins with us healthcare professionals, who often lack will/knowledge/skills to meaningfully engage with biopsychosocial mechanisms of illness in patient consultations. A professional blind spot undermining comprehensive care. Cool to work with great & outspoken minds like Tom Pollak!