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.

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/...

Such a superb, insightful & brave paper from @gailfdavies.bsky.social who so eloquently captures and describes what many of us have noticed about the evolution of symptoms as a result of patients’ interactions with the medical system👏👏💪🏻💪🏻 Straight into my top 10 of best papers ever on FND👌👌

Got my ticket for FNDS 2026! 😎 Join us in Baltimore! Learn about FND and the mysteries of the brain! Hang out with fun people! Eat excellent seafood! Allow me to regale you with tales of what was up in Fells Point before it got swanky! etc www.fndsociety.org/biennial-mee...

Amazing work led by the superb Rok ‘Rock star’ Berlot! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻👌👌

Grateful to share this work with my amazing coauthors: @timnicholson.bsky.social, @liviaasan.bsky.social, @bibastanton.bsky.social, Tom Pollak and Mark Edwards (@kingsioppn.bsky.social, University Hospital Essen and University of Ljubljana). #fnd, #neurology, #psychiatry, #neuropsychiatry

📣Special @kingsioppn.bsky.social Neuropsych talk *this Friday 5th evening 5-6pm GMT* @ki.se ‘s Jakob Theorell on ‘clinical borderlands between dementia, catatonia & autoimmune encephalitis’👌 Teams link below & all welcome to join/share share with anyone interested!👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-c...

Excellent podcast by #DaraAlbert & #JeffRatliffe on a recent @greenjournal.bsky.social Education article. Targeting Self-Described Knowledge Gaps to Improve FND Education among Clinicians. Check it out. www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/... neurology.libsyn.com/website/targ...

Thanks for the post @alancarson15.bsky.social - grateful that the Harvard Medical School magazine put together this spotlight on functional neurological disorder.

What an incredible piece of work. So cool to read about Charcot in this vivid detail - who had such a huge effect on FND, but also ... most other neurological conditions you've heard of. And the fields of neurology and psychology. And popular culture. And...

🎙️ New podcast episode! We’re joined by Dr. Sarah Cope, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & accredited EMDR/CBT therapist. We cover: • Her path into FND • EMDR basics • EMDR for FND, incl. her NIHR-funded MODIFI trial

Still a few tickets left for this event with the amazing @mikejay.bsky.social tonight 6-7.30 at @kingsioppn.bsky.social All welcome as Mike discusses his new book on the discovery of N2O & the birth of psychedelic science👌👌

There is still time to get your ticket for Mike Jay's talk tonight 👇

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📣All welcome to special @kingsioppn.bsky.social event Fri 21st 18:00-19:30 IoPPN, Denmark Hill The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇

I'm heartbroken to learn of the passing of Dr. Mark Hallett. A few thoughts in remembrance…

For decades, we have tried to suppress γ-secretase, lower Aβ42 levels, or remove amyloid from the brain. We show that PSEN1 mutations already reduce γ-secretase activity and lower Aβ42. Why restoring Aβ42 is the way forward for #Alzheimers, via @Brain1878 academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

#OnThisDay in 1977 the artist William Kurelek died. His 1953 autobiographical painting, The Maze, painted during his time as a patient at the Maudsley Hospital, continues to captivate visitors to Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Discover this intriguing artwork here: bit.ly/MOTMMaze

📣All welcome to special @kingsioppn.bsky.social event Fri 21st 18:00-19:30 IoPPN, Denmark Hill The ever brilliant @mikejay.bsky.social will be discussing his latest book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the birth of psychedelic science Tickets £5 - free for KCL staff & students👇

Our Co-Director, Prof. @ammaralchalabi.bsky.social, gave a fantastic talk yesterday, hosted by @mndassoc.bsky.social, on #MND/#ALS genetics, why they matter and how discoveries are shaping new treatments. Thank you to everyone who joined in person & online! #MNDresearch #genetics

📣All welcome to special Neuropsychiatry event Fri 21st Nov IN PERSON @kingsioppn.bsky.social Denmark Hill Mike Jay discusses his book Free Radicals on the discovery of nitrous oxide & the start of psychedelic research Tickets £5 Free for KCL staff & students! estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-...

These numbers are shocking. It’s also worth remembering that OpenAI is largely marking its own work here “The company designed its own benchmarks, and it's unclear how these metrics translate into real-world outcomes”

Don’t miss this tomorrow (Tues) 1-2pm UK time - Hamilton Morrin & Tom Pollak on their superb preprint that’s caught the world’s attention on AI psychosis 👌https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/delusions-by-design-how-everyday-ais-might-be-fuelling-psychosis-and-what-can-be-done-about-it

Hi All - please consider signing this petition to get Michelle Mone stripped of her peerage c.org/JqNVKWTH46

Are we ready to bring closed-loop neuromodulation into psychiatric disorders? Closed-loop neuromodulation refers to brain stimulation that automatically adjusts its output based on real-time feedback allowing therapy to be personalized to the brain’s state, rather than applying fixed stimulation.

"A large proportion of the discourse around FND on X is shaped by users who are dismissive of the concept of FND and those associated with it...implications for individuals getting support for a condition that is already widely misunderstood." www.jmir.org/2025/1/e73439

Glia of the heart’s nervous system — a Review by Katharina Scherschel, Hanna Wolf, Olujimi A. Ajijola, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Diana Lindner, Jose A. Gomez-Sanchez & Christian Meyer #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.

Brilliant episode of ‘In our Time’ on hypnosis including @kingsioppn.bsky.social’s Quinton Deeley & Devin Terhune - such eloquent and clear discussions of super complicated topic & its history 👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All welcome to this talk on 22q syndromes today 1-2pm UK time - Teams link in this link and do forward on to others who might be interested👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/catch...

Identification of five sleep-biopsychosocial profiles with specific neural signatures linking sleep variability with health, cognition, and lifestyle factors dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Is there an impostor in the brain? Is Capgras more common in Alzheimer's, Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinson's? Spoiler alert: Lewy Body is the most common presentation. Capgras can teach us both about identity and neurodegeneration.

🌎 Join the 1st Latin American Congress on Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)! 📅 Nov 20–22, 2025 | Lima, Peru | Hybrid 🎓 Includes Poster Call with international awards 🌍 🔗 Scan QR codes for registration & info

A hidden evolutionary process has been uncovered in sperm — where certain harmful DNA changes are naturally favoured as men age. This gives some changes a competitive edge and increases the risk of genetic conditions. 🔬 Read here 👇 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/hi...

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

📣Attention all genetics & neurodevelopmental disorders experts! A politically appointed GI surgeon has had a quick think about it & concluded all your work showing strong genetic contributions to ASD is wrong🤦‍♂️ If only he’d thought about this earlier he could have prevented you wasting your time…

Superb work from @lilysmythe.bsky.social - 1st of what I’m sure will be lots of great papers from her @ukri.org MRC funded PhD investigating emerging complex and potentially important overlap & relationship between FND & ASD👏👏👊🏻👊🏻 Big e-records (TrinetX) study showing ⬆️ rates of comorbidity

Deadly consequences of declining vaccination rates: @lincneurosci.bsky.social Director Professor Benedict Michael's article published today in The Conversation UK "Child dies from complications of measles years after infection – SSPE explained" Read: theconversation.com/child-dies-f...

I can’t believe there are people who allow PowerPoint to choose where the line breaks go in their slide titles

Boom: The results of the ADAPT-PD personalized brain stimulation trial showed promise for treating Parkinson’s. First longer-term results for adaptive DBS in PD. Adaptive stimulation automatically adjusts in real time to a person’s brain signals. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Do join us for 1st @kingsioppn.bsky.social NREG meeting of the academic year on the complex/fascinating topic of visual snow All welcome - Teams link in this link 👍 www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/events

…and those bloody Anglo Saxons, Beaker Folk etc😆 youtu.be/_kkOHtniTts?...

Two flagship papers from the International Brain Laboratory, now out in ‪@Nature.com‬: 🧠 Brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09235-0 🧠 Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09226-1 +

@ammaralchalabi.bsky.social isn’t prone to hyperbole, so this seems big/great news & progress for this devastating disease💪🏻 Suspect I’m not alone in growing skeptical of such omics (esp machine learning) papers with findings that fail to replicate/deliver clinical impact Hopefully this different🤞

Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents Could Be the Future of Ambient Lighting gizmodo.com/glow-in-the-...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Hi everyone! I’m researching how people with functional seizures understand & cope with their condition. If you're 18+, UK-based, diagnosed by neurologist (no additional epilepsy), please take 20-30 mins to complete this survey: nclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #functionalseizure#fnd