📣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

Stoffel and Sojka demonstrated that respiratory sensitivity was lower for patients with functional neurological disorders, along with reduced interoceptive sensibility but intact metacognition, compared to healthy controls. Full paper buff.ly/yXCH1WS

Great thread from @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social on a paper that took a lot of effort from a superb team to wrestle the evidence and many complexities of the relation between FND and migraine into shape! 👏👏💪🏻💪🏻

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

All welcome to this tomorrow (Tues) 1-2pm UK time….Sneak preview of ‘hot off the press’ results from very interesting trial of EMDR for FND👌👌 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/emdr-...

Donald Quixote, tilting at windmills

Glastonbury (& BBC’s amazing coverage) always such a midsummer English joy I particularly love the random celeb appearances like this from Peter Capaldi with Franz Ferdinand A thread of some my favourite bits from this and past years that are too good not to share…… www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This feels like a ‘rigid’ interpretation of the data I’d hazard a guess that ‘might be able to reduce this rigidity’ would be a more appropriate summary I also wonder what people with autism make of ‘relieves various autistic traits’….

Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

🧠 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

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

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

"Inside FND" - a new short film about FND A film that draws on evidence from patients, clinicians and research to counter common misconceptions about Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAv...

Time to get the facts straight. 🙌 Thanks @jonstoneneuro.bsky.social, Caoimhe McLaughlin and Anna Ross, and the ETUDE team for bringing this to life.

So proud of my neuropsychiatry colleagues at @kingsioppn.bsky.social It’s so inspiring working with such talented people …& an amazing privilege to discuss/chew over the mysteries of the brain &mind with them I’ll build a thread here with some of their broad & brilliant outputs that need sharing👇